GCCAD: Graph Contrastive Coding for Anomaly Detection

doi:10.1109/TKDE.2022.3200459

GCCAD: Graph Contrastive Coding for Anomaly Detection

2022-01-01

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DOI：10.1109/TKDE.2022.3200459

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Graph-based anomaly detection has been widely used for detecting malicious activities in real-world applications. Existing attempts to address this problem have thus far focused on structural feature engineering or learning in the binary classification regime. In this work, we propose to leverage graph contrastive learning and present the supervised GCCAD model for contrasting abnormal nodes with normal ones in terms of their distances to the global context (e.g., the average of all nodes). To handle scenarios with scarce labels, we further enable GCCAD as a self-supervised framework by designing a graph corrupting strategy for generating synthetic node labels. To achieve the contrastive objective, we design a graph neural network encoder that can infer and further remove suspicious links during message passing, as well as learn the global context of the input graph. We conduct extensive experiments on four public datasets, demonstrating that 1) GCCAD significantly and consistently outperforms various advanced baselines and 2) its self-supervised version without fine-tuning can achieve comparable performance with its fully supervised version.

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Graph neural network

anomaly detection

contrastive learning

GCCAD: Graph Contrastive Coding for Anomaly Detection

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