Simple and Efficient Partial Graph Adversarial Attack: A New Perspective

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Auteurs principaux: Zhu, Guanghui, Chen, Mengyu, Yuan, Chunfeng, Huang, Yihua
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author Zhu, Guanghui
Chen, Mengyu
Yuan, Chunfeng
Huang, Yihua
author_facet Zhu, Guanghui
Chen, Mengyu
Yuan, Chunfeng
Huang, Yihua
contents As the study of graph neural networks becomes more intensive and comprehensive, their robustness and security have received great research interest. The existing global attack methods treat all nodes in the graph as their attack targets. Although existing methods have achieved excellent results, there is still considerable space for improvement. The key problem is that the current approaches rigidly follow the definition of global attacks. They ignore an important issue, i.e., different nodes have different robustness and are not equally resilient to attacks. From a global attacker's view, we should arrange the attack budget wisely, rather than wasting them on highly robust nodes. To this end, we propose a totally new method named partial graph attack (PGA), which selects the vulnerable nodes as attack targets. First, to select the vulnerable items, we propose a hierarchical target selection policy, which allows attackers to only focus on easy-to-attack nodes. Then, we propose a cost-effective anchor-picking policy to pick the most promising anchors for adding or removing edges, and a more aggressive iterative greedy-based attack method to perform more efficient attacks. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that PGA can achieve significant improvements in both attack effect and attack efficiency compared to other existing graph global attack methods.
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spellingShingle Simple and Efficient Partial Graph Adversarial Attack: A New Perspective
Zhu, Guanghui
Chen, Mengyu
Yuan, Chunfeng
Huang, Yihua
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
As the study of graph neural networks becomes more intensive and comprehensive, their robustness and security have received great research interest. The existing global attack methods treat all nodes in the graph as their attack targets. Although existing methods have achieved excellent results, there is still considerable space for improvement. The key problem is that the current approaches rigidly follow the definition of global attacks. They ignore an important issue, i.e., different nodes have different robustness and are not equally resilient to attacks. From a global attacker's view, we should arrange the attack budget wisely, rather than wasting them on highly robust nodes. To this end, we propose a totally new method named partial graph attack (PGA), which selects the vulnerable nodes as attack targets. First, to select the vulnerable items, we propose a hierarchical target selection policy, which allows attackers to only focus on easy-to-attack nodes. Then, we propose a cost-effective anchor-picking policy to pick the most promising anchors for adding or removing edges, and a more aggressive iterative greedy-based attack method to perform more efficient attacks. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that PGA can achieve significant improvements in both attack effect and attack efficiency compared to other existing graph global attack methods.
title Simple and Efficient Partial Graph Adversarial Attack: A New Perspective
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07834