arXiv Machine Learning

Beat the Counter First: A Baseline for Temporal-Graph Anomaly Detectors

arXiv:2608. 15965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in streaming, edge-level graph anomaly detection (GAD) has been marked by increasingly elaborate architectures, from count-min-sketch chi square tests to memory-augmented attention networks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

FoundAna: A GNN-assisted Foundation Model for Graph Anomaly Detection

FoundAna is a GNN‑assisted foundation model designed for graph anomaly detection across diverse datasets. It combines a GNN component with a transformer encoder enhanced by four positional encodings to capture both local and global structure, using reconstruction errors as anomaly scores. Experiments on nine benchmark datasets from financial, social, and citation networks show that FoundAna consistently outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines.

By Suprim Nakarmi, Chahana Dahal, Yue Zhao, Junggab Son, Zuobin Xiong
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

ARES: Anomaly Recognition Model For Edge Streams

arXiv:2511. 22078v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world scenarios involving streaming information can be represented as temporal graphs, where data flows through dynamic changes in edges over time.

By Simone Mungari, Albert Bifet, Giuseppe Manco, Bernhard Pfahringer
arXiv AI
Sep 3

RINSE: Robust Target-Time Normality Estimation for Zero-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection

RINSE (Robust Iterative Normality Self-Estimation) is a gradient‑free framework for zero‑shot graph anomaly detection that keeps a source‑trained detector fixed while iteratively estimating target normality, calibrating representations, and assessing evidence reliability on unseen target graphs. It identifies a reliable subset of low‑residual target nodes to build a trimmed target‑aware normality model and fuses complementary anomaly evidence through reliability‑gated rank fusion and encoder ensembling. Across eight unseen target graphs, RINSE achieves the highest average AUPRC under two preprocessing protocols, with ablation and sensitivity analyses supporting its combined design.

By Taufikur Rahman Fuad, Md Abrar Jahin, Amir Hussain
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Statistical Feature Augmentation for Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs

The paper introduces a statistical feature augmentation technique that encodes behavioral interaction statistics into the input space for dynamic graph anomaly detection. Experiments on Reddit, Wikipedia, and MOOC datasets across seven models—both continuous-time and discrete-time—show that this augmentation consistently improves detection performance compared to models trained on original embeddings. The enriched input also facilitates fine-grained post-hoc analysis of behavioral importance, linking classical network analysis with deep learning.

By Philipp Schlinge, Jean-Luc Schnipper, Martin Atzmueller
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Hyperedge Anomaly Detection with Hypergraph Neural Network

The paper introduces an unsupervised hypergraph neural network designed to detect anomalous hyperedges—higher-order associations that deviate from typical patterns. Unlike conventional graph methods that capture only pairwise relationships, this approach leverages hypergraphs to model associations among any number of entities. Experiments on real-life datasets show the model effectively identifies unusual hyperedges without requiring labeled data.

By Md. Tanvir Alam, Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Md. Fahim Arefin, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Zisan Mahmud, Md. Sadman Sakib, Carson K. Leung