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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become indispensable tools for learning from graph structured data, catering to various applications such as social network analysis and fraud detection for financial services. At the heart of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zeyu Song , Ehsanul Kabir , Shagufta Mehnaz

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are effective in many applications. Still, there is a limited understanding of the effect of common graph structures on the learning process of GNNs. In this work, we systematically study the impact of community…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Hussain Hussain , Tomislav Duricic , Elisabeth Lex , Roman Kern , Denis Helic

In this paper, we present a stealthy and effective attack that exposes privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by inferring private links within graph-structured data. Focusing on the inductive setting where new nodes join…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Oualid Zari , Javier Parra-Arnau , Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen

Recent advances in protecting node privacy on graph data and attacking graph neural networks (GNNs) gain much attention. The eye does not bring these two essential tasks together yet. Imagine an adversary can utilize the powerful GNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 I-Chung Hsieh , Cheng-Te Li

Graph federated learning is of essential importance for training over large graph datasets while protecting data privacy, where each client stores a subset of local graph data, while the server collects the local gradients and broadcasts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Divya Anand Sinha , Ruijie Du , Yezi Liu , Athina Markopolou , Yanning Shen

Graph augmentation has received great attention in recent years for graph contrastive learning (GCL) to learn well-generalized node/graph representations. However, mainstream GCL methods often favor randomly disrupting graphs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Shiyin Tan , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Ying Zhang , Manabu Okumura

Although recent network representation learning (NRL) works in text-attributed networks demonstrated superior performance for various graph inference tasks, learning network representations could always raise privacy concerns when nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huixin Zhan , Victor S. Sheng

Community detection in graphs aims to cluster nodes into meaningful groups, a task particularly challenging in heterophilic graphs, where nodes sharing similarities and membership to the same community are typically distantly connected.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-21 William Leeney , Alessio Gravina , Davide Bacciu

Graphical models capture relations between entities in a wide range of applications including social networks, biology, and natural language processing, among others. Graph neural networks (GNN) are neural models that operate over graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Shouwei Gao , Wenqian Dong , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which propagate the node features through the edges and learn how to transform the aggregated features under label supervision, have achieved great success in supervised feature extraction for both node-level…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-01 Yilin He , Chaojie Wang , Hao Zhang , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on relational data, but real-world graphs are often distributed across organizations that cannot share raw data due to privacy and policy constraints. Existing federated GNN methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhishuai Guo , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Lei Zhang , Olivera Kotevska , Ravi K Madduri

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning representations on graphs, such as social networks. However, their vulnerability to privacy inference attacks restricts their practicality, especially in high-stake domains. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Tianyi Zhao , Hui Hu , Lu Cheng

Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) has achieved remarkable progresses in various real-world tasks on graph data, consisting of node features and the adjacent information between different nodes. High-performance GNN models always depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Chaochao Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Zheng , Huiwen Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Jia Wu , Bingzhe Wu , Ziqi Liu , Li Wang , Xiaolin Zheng

Graph clustering discovers groups or communities within networks. Deep learning methods such as autoencoders (AE) extract effective clustering and downstream representations but cannot incorporate rich structural information. While Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Marius Portmann , Shekhar S. Chandra

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant attraction due to their expansive real-world applications. To build trustworthy GNNs, two aspects - fairness and privacy - have emerged as critical considerations. Previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 He Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Shirui Pan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in learning node representations for various graph inference tasks. However, learning over graph data can raise privacy concerns when nodes represent people or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Sina Sajadmanesh , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can be trained to detect communities within a graph by learning from the duality of feature and connectivity information. Currently, the common approach for optimisation of GNNs is to use comparisons to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

With increasing concerns about privacy attacks and potential sensitive information leakage, researchers have actively explored methods to efficiently remove sensitive training data and reduce privacy risks in graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Faqian Guan , Tianqing Zhu , Zhoutian Wang , Wei Ren , Wanlei Zhou