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The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

This paper considers an important Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) task, namely open-set GAD, which aims to train a detection model using a small number of normal and anomaly nodes (referred to as seen anomalies) to detect both seen anomalies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Qizhou Wang , Guansong Pang , Mahsa Salehi , Xiaokun Xia , Christopher Leckie

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify nodes in a graph that significantly deviate from normal patterns, plays a crucial role in broad application domains. However, existing GAD methods are one-model-for-one-dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chaoxi Niu , Hezhe Qiao , Changlu Chen , Ling Chen , Guansong Pang

Graph Neural Networks have shown excellent performance on semi-supervised classification tasks. However, they assume access to a graph that may not be often available in practice. In the absence of any graph, constructing k-Nearest Neighbor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Vijay Lingam , Arun Iyer , Rahul Ragesh

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has gained increasing attention in recent years due to its critical application in a wide range of domains, such as social networks, financial risk management, and traffic analysis. Existing GAD methods can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jie Liu , Mengting He , Xuequn Shang , Jieming Shi , Bin Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is crucial in applications like fraud detection and cybersecurity. Despite recent advancements using graph neural networks (GNNs), two major challenges persist. At the model level, most methods adopt a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chunyu Wei , Siyuan He , Yu Wang , Yueguo Chen , Yunhai Wang , Bing Bai , Yidong Zhang , Yong Xie , Shunming Zhang , Fei Wang

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Graph machine learning has been widely explored in various domains, such as community detection, transaction analysis, and recommendation systems. In these applications, anomaly detection plays an important role. Recently, studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Wei Herng Choong , Jixing Liu , Ching-Yu Kao , Philip Sperl

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from the majority within a graph, playing a crucial role in applications such as social networks and e-commerce. Despite the current advancements in deep learning-based GAD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunfeng Zhao , Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Qingfeng Chen , Yu Zheng , Shirui Pan

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

A significant number of anomalous nodes in the real world, such as fake news, noncompliant users, malicious transactions, and malicious posts, severely compromises the health of the graph data ecosystem and urgently requires effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiong Zhang , Hong Peng , Changlong Fu , Xin Jin , Yun Yang , Cheng Xie

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be powerful in many graph-based applications. However, they fail to generalize well under heterophilic setups, where neighbor nodes have different labels. To address this challenge, we employ a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Taewook Ko , Chong-Kwon Kim

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify anomalous graphs that significantly deviate from other ones, which has raised growing attention due to the broad existence and complexity of graph-structured data in many real-world scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Zhoumin Lu , Wenzhong Guo , See-kiong Ng

Graph-Level Anomaly Detection (GLAD) aims to distinguish anomalous graphs within a graph dataset. However, current methods are constrained by their receptive fields, struggling to learn global features within the graphs. Moreover, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Hao Wu , Xuezhi Wen , Dalin Zhang , Siyang Lu , Binyong Li , Wei Gong , Hai Wan , Xibin Zhao

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in graph-based data, with wide applications in fields such as web security and financial fraud detection. Existing methods typically rely on contrastive learning, assuming that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Di Jin , Jingyi Cao , Xiaobao Wang , Bingdao Feng , Dongxiao He , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to detect outliers in graph-structured data, has received increasing research attention recently. However, existing GAD methods assume identical training and testing distributions, which is rarely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Junjun Pan , Yixin Liu , Chuan Zhou , Fei Xiong , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Shirui Pan

Graph-based Anomaly Detection models have gained widespread adoption in recent years, identifying suspicious nodes by aggregating neighborhood information. However, most existing studies overlook the pervasive issues of missing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junpeng Wu , Pinheng Zong

Anomaly detection suffered from the lack of anomalies due to the diversity of abnormalities and the difficulties of obtaining large-scale anomaly data. Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods are often used to solely leverage normal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Shi , Ni Zhang

Does the intrinsic curvature of complex networks hold the key to unveiling graph anomalies that conventional approaches overlook? Reconstruction-based graph anomaly detection (GAD) methods overlook such geometric outliers, focusing only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Karish Grover , Geoffrey J. Gordon , Christos Faloutsos

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in graph representation learning. Unfortunately, current weight assignment schemes in standard GNNs, such as the calculation based on node degrees or pair-wise representations, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junfu Wang , Yuanfang Guo , Liang Yang , Yunhong Wang