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48 results for Graph Perturbations

Paper analyzes GCNN sensitivity to probabilistic graph perturbations.

problem Investigating how GCNNs handle probabilistic graph errors.
method Establishes error bounds and linear relationships between GSO perturbations and GCNN outputs.
result GCNNs maintain stability under graph edge perturbations if GSO errors are bounded.

In this paper, we propose a perturbation framework to measure the robustness of graph properties. Although there are already perturbation methods proposed to tackle this problem, they are limited by the fact that the strength of the perturbation cannot be well controlled. We firstly provide a perturbation framework on …

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to perturbations of the graph structure that are either random, or, adversarially designed. The perturbed links modify the graph neighborhoods, which critically affects the performance of GCNs in semi-supervised learning (SSL) tasks. Aiming at robustifying GCNs conditi…

2019-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on stability of GCNNs under graph perturbations.

problem Limited theoretical understanding of GCNN stability.
method Proposes a probabilistic framework to analyze GCNN stability under various graph perturbations.
result Demonstrates the importance of data distribution in stability analysis.

This paper focuses on spectral filters on graphs, namely filters defined as elementwise multiplication in the frequency domain of a graph. In many graph signal processing settings, it is important to transfer a filter from one graph to another. One example is in graph convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), where the…

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have boosted the performance of many graph related tasks such as node classification and graph classification. Recent researches show that graph neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which deliberately add carefully created unnoticeable perturbation to the graph structure. …

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning models for graphs have advanced the state of the art on many tasks. Despite their recent success, little is known about their robustness. We investigate training time attacks on graph neural networks for node classification that perturb the discrete graph structure. Our core principle is to use meta-gradi…

2019-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Pro-GNN defends graph neural networks from adversarial attacks by learning graph structure.

problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial attacks on real-world graphs.
method Pro-GNN learns a structural graph and a robust GNN model jointly from perturbed graphs guided by intrinsic graph properties.
result Pro-GNN achieves significantly better performance than state-of-the-art defense methods, even on heavily perturbed graphs.

SIGNNAP learns stable and identifiable node representations in GNNs against graph perturbations.

problem Fragility of GNN models to graph perturbations leading to unreliable node representations.
method SIGNNAP proposes a novel model that learns stable and identifiable node representations in an unsupervised manner, formalizing stability and identifiability through a contrastive objective and preserving smoothness with existing GNN backbones.
result SIGNNAP demonstrates effectiveness in learning stable and identifiable node representations in GNNs against graph perturbations on six benchmarks.

Novel TRI-GNN framework improves graph classification robustness.

problem Graph neural networks suffer from over-smoothing and vulnerability to graph perturbations.
method Integrates higher-order graph information via persistent homology and local graph structure learning.
result TRI-GNN outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on node classification tasks.

A new framework explains GNN predictions by simulating graph structure and feature changes.

problem Lack of transparency in GNN predictions hinders understanding.
method TraP2 framework using a three-layer architecture: Translation, Perturbation, and Paraphrase layers.
result TraP2 achieves 10.2% higher explanation accuracy than state-of-the-art methods.

Novel framework predicts cell responses to perturbations using GRNs.

problem Predicting cellular responses to perturbations for drug discovery and personalized therapeutics.
method Graph variational Bayesian causal inference framework with refined GRNs and robust estimator.
result Enhanced model performance and robust estimation of perturbation effects.

Graphs can be fooled by small edge changes, but this work protects them.

problem Adversaries can manipulate graph data to mislead graph classification models.
method We introduce a smoothed graph classification model with a robustness guarantee.
result The smoothed model maintains consistent predictions under small adversarial perturbations.

We present batch virtual adversarial training (BVAT), a novel regularization method for graph convolutional networks (GCNs). BVAT addresses the shortcoming of GCNs that do not consider the smoothness of the model's output distribution against local perturbations around the input. We propose two algorithms, sample-based…

2019-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

LGKDE learns graph density using neural networks and perturbations.

problem Graph density estimation challenges in capturing structural patterns and semantic variations.
method LGKDE uses graph neural networks to represent graphs as discrete distributions and learns graph metrics via maximum mean discrepancy.
result LGKDE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in graph anomaly detection.

GNNs robustness in community detection is studied with various perturbations.

problem Understanding GNNs robustness in community detection tasks.
method Systematic computational evaluation of six GNN architectures on synthetic and real-world networks.
result Supervised GNNs achieve higher baseline accuracy, while DMoN shows stronger resilience to perturbations.

This paper examines how graph topology affects adversarial attacks on vertex classification.

problem Adversarial attacks on vertex classification are vulnerable to graph topology changes.
method Examined two topological graph characteristics and their impact on adversary perturbation budgets.
result Training sets including high-degree vertices or those ensuring all unlabeled nodes have neighbors can significantly increase the adversary's perturbation budget.

An overview of the perturbative expansion of the Chern--Simons path integral is given. The main goal is to describe how trivalent graphs appear: as they already occur in the perturbative expansion of an analogous finite-dimensional integral, we discuss this case in detail.

2005-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DefenseVGAE defends graph neural networks against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial structural perturbations.
method Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE) to reconstruct graph structure.
result DefenseVGAE reduces adversarial perturbations and boosts GCN performance.

Graph neural networks detect structural perturbations from time series data.

problem Detecting structural causes of disturbances in complex systems.
method Graph neural network approach to infer structural perturbations from functional time series.
result Data-driven approach outperforms typical reconstruction methods and meets Bayesian inference accuracy.

Despite the exploding interest in graph neural networks there has been little effort to verify and improve their robustness. This is even more alarming given recent findings showing that they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks on both the graph structure and the node attributes. We propose the first method…

2019-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework assesses graph-learning datasets for better evaluation.

problem Insufficient evaluation of graph-learning datasets and methods.
method Introduces Rings framework for dataset ablations and proposes performance separability and mode complementarity measures.
result Demonstrates utility of Rings framework for graph-learning dataset evaluation.

GNNGuard defends Graph Neural Networks against structural perturbations.

problem Adversarial attacks on graph neural networks can degrade performance catastrophically.
method Detects and quantifies the relationship between graph structure and node features, then uses this to mitigate attacks.
result GNNGuard outperforms existing defenses by 15.3% on average across various attacks and datasets.

Indirect attacks can fool graph classifiers even with poisoned neighbors.

problem How to evaluate and defend graph convolutional neural networks against indirect adversarial attacks.
method Proposed a method to generate adversarial perturbations on a single node far from the target.
result 99% attack success rate within two-hops from the target in two datasets.

ELD compares graphs by their embedded Laplacian eigenvectors, resolving ambiguities.

problem Comparing graphs of different sizes and structures.
method ELD uses symmetrization and perturbation techniques to compare graph embeddings.
result ELD resolves ambiguities in graph comparisons, making it a natural pseudo-metric.

In a graph convolutional network, we assume that the graph GG is generated wrt some observation noise. During learning, we make small random perturbations ΔGΔG of the graph and try to improve generalization. Based on quantum information geometry, ΔGΔG can be characterized by the eigendecomposition of the graph Laplaci…

2019-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning models for graphs have achieved strong performance for the task of node classification. Despite their proliferation, currently there is no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. Yet, in domains where they are likely to be used, e.g. the web, adversaries are common. Can deep learning models for …

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper shows how to hide individuals in graphs to fool community detection models.

problem Adversarial attack on community detection models by hiding individuals.
method Iterative learning framework that updates a graph generator and a community detection model.
result Adversarial graphs generated by the method can fool multiple community detection models.

GraphCL learns node representations by maximizing similarity between perturbed node features.

problem Learning node representations in graph data without labeled data.
method Contrastive learning of node embeddings using graph neural networks and a loss function.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art in unsupervised node classification benchmarks.

node2coords learns interpretable graph node representations robust to graph perturbations.

problem Need representations that capture graph structure and are robust to perturbations.
method Proposes a graph representation learning algorithm using Wasserstein barycenters.
result Learned representations are interpretable and stable to graph perturbations.

Paper tackles robust graph matching in dense graphs with AMP type algorithm.

problem Matching recovery between correlated Gaussian Wigner matrices with adversarial perturbations.
method Approximate Message Passing (AMP) type iterative algorithm with time-dependent matrix multiplication.
result Algorithm succeeds in polynomial time for non-vanishing correlation and small perturbations.

Paper tackles fairness issues in GNNs by proposing ELEGANT for certification.

problem Fairness issues in GNN predictions due to graph data perturbations.
method Proposes ELEGANT framework for certifying fairness of any GNN without assumptions or re-training.
result The fairness of any GNN backbone is impossible to be corrupted under certain perturbation budgets.

iGCL preserves graph semantics in latent space augmentations.

problem Manual tuning of augmentation ratios and unexpected graph changes.
method iGCL uses a Variational Graph Auto-Encoder to learn augmentations in the latent space, optimizing an upper bound for contrastive loss.
result iGCL achieves state-of-the-art performance on graph-level and node-level tasks.

New regularization techniques improve stability of deep neural networks.

problem Improving stability of deep neural networks in high-dimensional data.
method Apply manifold regularization to develop new regularizers based on graph Laplacian sparsification.
result Empirically, networks achieve high stability in various perturbation models, including adversarial attacks.

This paper focuses on spectral graph convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), where filters are defined as elementwise multiplication in the frequency domain of a graph. In machine learning settings where the dataset consists of signals defined on many different graphs, the trained ConvNet should generalize to signals…

2019-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm improves graph-based active learning by identifying unexplored regions.

problem Improving graph-based active learning by identifying unexplored regions.
method Poisson Reweighted Laplacian Uncertainty Sampling (PWLL) with a diagonal perturbation.
result PWLL effectively identifies unexplored regions in graph-based data.

Scattering transforms are non-trainable deep convolutional architectures that exploit the multi-scale resolution of a wavelet filter bank to obtain an appropriate representation of data. More importantly, they are proven invariant to translations, and stable to perturbations that are close to translations. This stabili…

2019-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗