Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Extremely Limited Labels in Dynamic Graphs

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Jiazhen, Fu, Sichao, Ma, Zheng, Feng, Mingbin, Wirjanto, Tony S., Peng, Qinmu
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author Chen, Jiazhen
Fu, Sichao
Ma, Zheng
Feng, Mingbin
Wirjanto, Tony S.
Peng, Qinmu
author_facet Chen, Jiazhen
Fu, Sichao
Ma, Zheng
Feng, Mingbin
Wirjanto, Tony S.
Peng, Qinmu
contents Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has recently received increasing attention, which aims to distinguish anomalous patterns from graphs under the guidance of a moderate amount of labeled data and a large volume of unlabeled data. Although these proposed semi-supervised GAD methods have achieved great success, their superior performance will be seriously degraded when the provided labels are extremely limited due to some unpredictable factors. Besides, the existing methods primarily focus on anomaly detection in static graphs, and little effort was paid to consider the continuous evolution characteristic of graphs over time (dynamic graphs). To address these challenges, we propose a novel GAD framework (EL$^{2}$-DGAD) to tackle anomaly detection problem in dynamic graphs with extremely limited labels. Specifically, a transformer-based graph encoder model is designed to more effectively preserve evolving graph structures beyond the local neighborhood. Then, we incorporate an ego-context hypersphere classification loss to classify temporal interactions according to their structure and temporal neighborhoods while ensuring the normal samples are mapped compactly against anomalous data. Finally, the above loss is further augmented with an ego-context contrasting module which utilizes unlabeled data to enhance model generalization. Extensive experiments on four datasets and three label rates demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison to the existing GAD methods.
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spellingShingle Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Extremely Limited Labels in Dynamic Graphs
Chen, Jiazhen
Fu, Sichao
Ma, Zheng
Feng, Mingbin
Wirjanto, Tony S.
Peng, Qinmu
Machine Learning
Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has recently received increasing attention, which aims to distinguish anomalous patterns from graphs under the guidance of a moderate amount of labeled data and a large volume of unlabeled data. Although these proposed semi-supervised GAD methods have achieved great success, their superior performance will be seriously degraded when the provided labels are extremely limited due to some unpredictable factors. Besides, the existing methods primarily focus on anomaly detection in static graphs, and little effort was paid to consider the continuous evolution characteristic of graphs over time (dynamic graphs). To address these challenges, we propose a novel GAD framework (EL$^{2}$-DGAD) to tackle anomaly detection problem in dynamic graphs with extremely limited labels. Specifically, a transformer-based graph encoder model is designed to more effectively preserve evolving graph structures beyond the local neighborhood. Then, we incorporate an ego-context hypersphere classification loss to classify temporal interactions according to their structure and temporal neighborhoods while ensuring the normal samples are mapped compactly against anomalous data. Finally, the above loss is further augmented with an ego-context contrasting module which utilizes unlabeled data to enhance model generalization. Extensive experiments on four datasets and three label rates demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison to the existing GAD methods.
title Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Extremely Limited Labels in Dynamic Graphs
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15035