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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant application potential in various fields. However, GNNs are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Numerous adversarial defense methods on GNNs are proposed to address the problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Tao Wu , Xinwen Cao , Chao Wang , Shaojie Qiao , Xingping Xian , Lin Yuan , Canyixing Cui , Yanbing Liu

Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tran Gia Bao Ngo , Zulfikar Alom , Federico Errica , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can greatly degrade their performance. Existing graph purification methods attempt to address this issue by filtering attacked graphs. However, they struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xin He , Wenqi Fan , Yili Wang , Chengyi Liu , Rui Miao , Xin Juan , Xin Wang

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have become increasingly popular for supporting Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Nevertheless, extensive research has shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, which involve subtle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Andrea Venturi , Dario Stabili , Mirco Marchetti

Graph neural networks, a popular class of models effective in a wide range of graph-based learning tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. While the majority of the literature focuses on such vulnerability in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Xingchen Wan , Henry Kenlay , Binxin Ru , Arno Blaas , Michael A. Osborne , Xiaowen Dong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in many applications. However, their robustness against adversarial attacks is criticized. Prior studies show that using unnoticeable modifications on graph topology or nodal features can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xianfeng Tang , Yandong Li , Yiwei Sun , Huaxiu Yao , Prasenjit Mitra , Suhang Wang

Adversarial attacks on Graph Neural Networks aim to perturb the performance of the learner by carefully modifying the graph topology and node attributes. Existing methods achieve attack stealthiness by constraining the modification budget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kai Yuan , Jiahao Zhang , Yidi Wang , Xiaobing Pei

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Explainable Graph Neural Network (GNN) has emerged recently to foster the trust of using GNNs. Existing GNN explainers are developed from various perspectives to enhance the explanation performance. We take the first step to study GNN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jiate Li , Meng Pang , Yun Dong , Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang

Pre-trained language models of code are now widely used in various software engineering tasks such as code generation, code completion, vulnerability detection, etc. This, in turn, poses security and reliability risks to these models. One…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Yang Zhou , Xuan Bach D. Le , Patanamon Thongtanunam , David Lo

Behavioral malware detectors promise to expose previously unknown malware and are an important security primitive. However, even the best behavioral detectors suffer from high false positives and negatives. In this paper, we address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mkhail Kazdagli , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai , Mohit Tiwari

Graph embedding aims to transfer a graph into vectors to facilitate subsequent graph analytics tasks like link prediction and graph clustering. Most approaches on graph embedding focus on preserving the graph structure or minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Shirui Pan , Ruiqi Hu , Sai-fu Fung , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGAD seeks to identify entire graphs that deviate from normal behavioral patterns. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Qingfeng Chen , Haojin Zeng , Jingyi Jie , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to different tasks such as bioinformatics, drug design, and social networks. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks which aim to mislead the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xiaojun Xu , Yue Yu , Hanzhang Wang , Alok Lal , Carl A. Gunter , Bo Li

Recent studies have shown that Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks on the graph structure. Although multiple works have been proposed to improve their robustness against such structural adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Qibiao Peng , Yang Liu , Zibin Zheng , Carl Yang

The success of graph neural networks stimulates the prosperity of graph mining and the corresponding downstream tasks including graph anomaly detection (GAD). However, it has been explored that those graph mining methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yulin Zhu , Yuni Lai , Kaifa Zhao , Xiapu Luo , Mingquan Yuan , Jun Wu , Jian Ren , Kai Zhou

Adversarial attacks on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) reveal their security vulnerabilities, limiting their adoption in safety-critical applications. However, existing attack strategies rely on the knowledge of either the GNN model being used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Kartik Sharma , Samidha Verma , Sourav Medya , Arnab Bhattacharya , Sayan Ranu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained much attention for node and graph classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, multiple recent works showed that an attacker can easily make GNNs predict incorrectly via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Binghui Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Vulnerability detection is a critical problem in software security and attracts growing attention both from academia and industry. Traditionally, software security is safeguarded by designated rule-based detectors that heavily rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tiehua Zhang , Rui Xu , Jianping Zhang , Yuze Liu , Xin Chen , Jun Yin , Xi Zheng

Benefiting from the message passing mechanism, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful on flourish tasks over graph data. However, recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically degrade the performance of GNNs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Kuan Li , Yang Liu , Xiang Ao , Jianfeng Chi , Jinghua Feng , Hao Yang , Qing He