MetaGAD: Meta Representation Adaptation for Few-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection

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Main Authors: Xu, Xiongxiao, Ding, Kaize, Chen, Canyu, Shu, Kai
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author Xu, Xiongxiao
Ding, Kaize
Chen, Canyu
Shu, Kai
author_facet Xu, Xiongxiao
Ding, Kaize
Chen, Canyu
Shu, Kai
contents Graph anomaly detection has long been an important problem in various domains pertaining to information security such as financial fraud, social spam and network intrusion. The majority of existing methods are performed in an unsupervised manner, as labeled anomalies in a large scale are often too expensive to acquire. However, the identified anomalies may turn out to be uninteresting data instances due to the lack of prior knowledge. In real-world scenarios, it is often feasible to obtain limited labeled anomalies, which have great potential to advance graph anomaly detection. However, the work exploring limited labeled anomalies and a large amount of unlabeled nodes in graphs to detect anomalies is relatively limited. Therefore, in this paper, we study an important problem of few-shot graph anomaly detection. Nonetheless, it is challenging to fully leverage the information of few-shot anomalous nodes due to the irregularity of anomalies and the overfitting issue in the few-shot learning. To tackle the above challenges, we propose a novel meta-learning based framework, MetaGAD, that learns to adapt the knowledge from self-supervised learning to few-shot supervised learning for graph anomaly detection. In specific, we formulate the problem as a bi-level optimization, ensuring MetaGAD converging to minimizing the validation loss, thus enhancing the generalization capacity. The comprehensive experiments on six real-world datasets with synthetic anomalies and "organic" anomalies (available in the datasets) demonstrate the effectiveness of MetaGAD in detecting anomalies with few-shot anomalies. The code is available at https://github.com/XiongxiaoXu/MetaGAD.
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spellingShingle MetaGAD: Meta Representation Adaptation for Few-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection
Xu, Xiongxiao
Ding, Kaize
Chen, Canyu
Shu, Kai
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Social and Information Networks
Graph anomaly detection has long been an important problem in various domains pertaining to information security such as financial fraud, social spam and network intrusion. The majority of existing methods are performed in an unsupervised manner, as labeled anomalies in a large scale are often too expensive to acquire. However, the identified anomalies may turn out to be uninteresting data instances due to the lack of prior knowledge. In real-world scenarios, it is often feasible to obtain limited labeled anomalies, which have great potential to advance graph anomaly detection. However, the work exploring limited labeled anomalies and a large amount of unlabeled nodes in graphs to detect anomalies is relatively limited. Therefore, in this paper, we study an important problem of few-shot graph anomaly detection. Nonetheless, it is challenging to fully leverage the information of few-shot anomalous nodes due to the irregularity of anomalies and the overfitting issue in the few-shot learning. To tackle the above challenges, we propose a novel meta-learning based framework, MetaGAD, that learns to adapt the knowledge from self-supervised learning to few-shot supervised learning for graph anomaly detection. In specific, we formulate the problem as a bi-level optimization, ensuring MetaGAD converging to minimizing the validation loss, thus enhancing the generalization capacity. The comprehensive experiments on six real-world datasets with synthetic anomalies and "organic" anomalies (available in the datasets) demonstrate the effectiveness of MetaGAD in detecting anomalies with few-shot anomalies. The code is available at https://github.com/XiongxiaoXu/MetaGAD.
title MetaGAD: Meta Representation Adaptation for Few-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10668