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most citedBinarizedAttack: Structural Poisoning Attacks to Graph-based Anomaly Detection

8 citations · 12 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CR2025

Stealthy Dual-Trigger Backdoors: Attacking Prompt Tuning in LM-Empowered Graph Foundation Models

Xiaoyu Xue, Yuni Lai, Chenxi Huang +4

The emergence of graph foundation models (GFMs), particularly those incorporating language models (LMs), has revolutionized graph learning and demonstrated remarkable performance o…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

SparseDoctor: Towards Efficient Chat Doctor with Mixture of Experts Enhanced Large Language Models

Jianbin Zhang, Yulin Zhu, Wai Lun Lo +3

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in medical question answering and clinical decision-making, promoting the efficiency and popularization of the personalized…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Grained Temporal-Spatial Graph Learning for Stable Traffic Flow Forecasting

Zhenan Lin, Yuni Lai, Wai Lun Lo +5

Time-evolving traffic flow forecasting are playing a vital role in intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. However, the dynamic traffic flow forecasting is a highly no…

cs.SI2025

Crowdsourced Homophily Ties Based Graph Annotation Via Large Language Model

Yu Bu, Yulin Zhu, Kai Zhou

Accurate graph annotation typically requires substantial labeled data, which is often challenging and resource-intensive to obtain. In this paper, we present Crowdsourced Homophily…

cs.LG2025

AuditVotes: Elevating Provable Defense for GNNs with Efficient Augmentation and Conditional Smoothing

Yuni Lai, Yulin Zhu, Yixuan Sun +6

Despite advancements in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), adaptive attacks continue to challenge their robustness. Certified robustness via randomized smoothing offers provable guarant…

cs.LG2024

SFR-GNN: Simple and Fast Robust GNNs against Structural Attacks

Xing Ai, Guanyu Zhu, Yulin Zhu +4

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated commendable performance for graph-structured data. Yet, GNNs are often vulnerable to adversarial structural attacks as embedding gene…

cs.LG2024

Towards Robust Graph Structural Learning Beyond Homophily via Preserving Neighbor Similarity

Yulin Zhu, Yuni Lai, Xing Ai +7

Despite the tremendous success of graph-based learning systems in handling structural data, it has been widely investigated that they are fragile to adversarial attacks on homophil…

cs.AI2023

Cost Aware Untargeted Poisoning Attack against Graph Neural Networks,

Yuwei Han, Yuni Lai, Yulin Zhu +1

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become widely used in the field of graph mining. However, these networks are vulnerable to structural perturbations. While many research efforts h…

cs.LG2023

Node-aware Bi-smoothing: Certified Robustness against Graph Injection Attacks

Yuni Lai, Yulin Zhu, Bailin Pan +1

Deep Graph Learning (DGL) has emerged as a crucial technique across various domains. However, recent studies have exposed vulnerabilities in DGL models, such as susceptibility to e…

cs.LG2023

Graph Anomaly Detection at Group Level: A Topology Pattern Enhanced Unsupervised Approach

Xing Ai, Jialong Zhou, Yulin Zhu +4

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has achieved success and has been widely applied in various domains, such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, finance security, and biochemistry. Howev…

cs.CR2023

Coupled-Space Attacks against Random-Walk-based Anomaly Detection

Yuni Lai, Marcin Waniek, Liying Li +5

Random Walks-based Anomaly Detection (RWAD) is commonly used to identify anomalous patterns in various applications. An intriguing characteristic of RWAD is that the input graph ca…

cs.LG2023

Robust Graph Contrastive Learning with Information Restoration

Yulin Zhu, Xing Ai, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik +1

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

cs.LG2023

Simple yet Effective Gradient-Free Graph Convolutional Networks

Yulin Zhu, Xing Ai, Qimai Li +2

Linearized Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted great attention in recent years for graph representation learning. Compared with nonlinear Graph Neural Network (GNN) models,…

cs.IR2022

Towards Adversarially Robust Recommendation from Adaptive Fraudster Detection

Yuni Lai, Yulin Zhu, Wenqi Fan +2

The robustness of recommender systems under node injection attacks has garnered significant attention. Recently, GraphRfi, a GNN-based recommender system, was proposed and shown to…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

FocusedCleaner: Sanitizing Poisoned Graphs for Robust GNN-based Node Classification

Yulin Zhu, Liang Tong, Gaolei Li +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, which will generate a poisoned graph as the input to the GNN models. We present FocusedCleaner as a poisoned…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

Towards Secrecy-Aware Attacks Against Trust Prediction in Signed Social Networks

Yulin Zhu, Tomasz Michalak, Xiapu Luo +2

Signed social networks are widely used to model the trust relationships among online users in security-sensitive systems such as cryptocurrency trading platforms, where trust predi…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

From Bi-Level to One-Level: A Framework for Structural Attacks to Graph Anomaly Detection

Yulin Zhu, Yuni Lai, Kaifa Zhao +5

The success of graph neural networks stimulates the prosperity of graph mining and the corresponding downstream tasks including graph anomaly detection (GAD). However, it has been…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

BinarizedAttack: Structural Poisoning Attacks to Graph-based Anomaly Detection

Yulin Zhu, Yuni Lai, Kaifa Zhao +4

Graph-based Anomaly Detection (GAD) is becoming prevalent due to the powerful representation abilities of graphs as well as recent advances in graph mining techniques. These GAD to…