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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a workhorse approach for learning from data defined over irregular domains, typically by implicitly assuming that the data structure is represented by a homophilic graph. However, recent works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Samuel Rey , Madeline Navarro , Victor M. Tenorio , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs often struggle with heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes tend to have dissimilar features or labels. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ruizhong Qiu , Ting-Wei Li , Gaotang Li , Hanghang Tong

End-to-end training with global optimization have popularized graph neural networks (GNNs) for node classification, yet inadvertently introduced vulnerabilities to adversarial edge-perturbing attacks. Adversaries can exploit the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ao Liu , Wenshan Li , Tao Li , Beibei Li , Guangquan Xu , Pan Zhou , Wengang Ma , Hanyuan Huang

Graph neural network (GNN) has achieved great success on graph representation learning. Challenged by large scale private data collected from user-side, GNN may not be able to reflect the excellent performance, without rich features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jinyin Chen , Guohan Huang , Haibin Zheng , Shanqing Yu , Wenrong Jiang , Chen Cui

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph learning tasks. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to both test-time evasion and training-time poisoning attacks that perturb the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Binghui Wang , Meng Pang , Yun Dong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on homophilic graph data while being far less impressive when handling non-homophilic graph data due to the inherent low-pass filtering property of GNNs. In general, since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Shuai Zheng , Zhenfeng Zhu , Zhizhe Liu , Youru Li , Yao Zhao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly widely used for community detection in attributed networks. They combine structural topology with node attributes through message passing and pooling. However, their robustness or lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jaidev Goel , Pablo Moriano , Ramakrishnan Kannan , Yulia R. Gel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly important given their popularity and the diversity of applications. Yet, existing studies of their vulnerability to adversarial attacks rely on relatively small graphs. We address this gap and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Simon Geisler , Tobias Schmidt , Hakan Şirin , Daniel Zügner , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used for various types of graph data processing and analytical tasks in different domains. Training GNNs over centralized graph data can be infeasible due to privacy concerns and regulatory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Nan Cui , Xiuling Wang , Wendy Hui Wang , Violet Chen , Yue Ning

In light of rising cybersecurity threats, data center providers face growing pressure to protect their own management infrastructure from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. While tenant-managed cages generally fall outside the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kartikeya Sharma , Craig Jacobik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received significant attention due to their state-of-the-art performance on various graph representation learning tasks. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haoxi Zhan , Xiaobing Pei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various applications, yet they are vulnerable to sophisticated adversarial attacks, particularly node injection attacks. The success of such attacks heavily relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jiahao Zhang , Xiaobing Pei , Zhaokun Zhong , Wenqiang Hao , Zhenghao Tang

Node injection attacks on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention recently, due to their ability to degrade GNN performance with high attack success rates. However, our study indicates that these attacks often fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuchang Tao , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Yunfan Wu , Liang Hou , Fei Sun , Xueqi Cheng

The graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework has gained remarkable achievements in graph representation learning. However, similar to graph neural networks (GNNs), GCL models are susceptible to graph structural attacks. As an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Zhu , Xing Ai , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Kai Zhou

Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) enhance graph learning by integrating rich textual semantics and topological context for each node. While boosting expressiveness, they also expose new vulnerabilities in graph learning through text-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihui Chen , Yuling Wang , Pengfei Jiao , Kai Wu , Xiao Wang , Xiang Ao , Dalin Zhang

Backdoor attacks are rapidly emerging threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). In the backdoor attack scenario, attackers usually implant the backdoor into the target model by manipulating the training dataset or training process. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nan Zhong , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Graph-based classification methods are widely used for security and privacy analytics. Roughly speaking, graph-based classification methods include collective classification and graph neural network. Evading a graph-based classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been successfully applied to operate on the graph-structured data. Given a specific scenario, rich human expertise and tremendous laborious trials are usually required to identify a suitable GNN architecture.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixiong Zhou , Qingquan Song , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Spectral Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), also referred to as graph filters have gained increasing prevalence for heterophily graphs. Optimal graph filters rely on Laplacian eigendecomposition for Fourier transform. In an attempt to avert the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Keke Huang , Pietro Liò

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received tremendous attention due to their power in learning effective representations for graphs. Most GNNs follow a message-passing scheme where the node representations are updated by aggregating and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Wei Jin , Xiaorui Liu , Yao Ma , Tyler Derr , Charu Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang