GAWD: Graph anomaly detection in weighted directed graph databases

Meng Chieh Lee, Hung T. Nguyen, DImitris Berberidis, Vincent S. Tseng, Leman Akoglu

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Abstract

Given a set of node-labeled directed weighted graphs, how to find the most anomalous ones? How can we summarize the normal behavior in the database without losing information? We propose GAWD, for detecting anomalous graphs in directed weighted graph databases. The idea is to (1) iteratively identify the "best"substructure (i.e., subgraph or motif) that yields the largest compression when each of its occurrences is replaced by a super-node, and (2) score each graph by how much it compresses over iterations - - the more the compression, the lower the anomaly score. Different from existing work [1] on which we build, GAWD exhibits (i) a lossless graph encoding scheme, (ii) ability to handle numeric edge weights, (iii) interpretability by common patterns, and (iv) scalability with running time linear in input size. Experiments on four datasets injected with anomalies show that GAWD achieves significantly better results than state-of-the-art baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2021
EditorsMichele Coscia, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Kai Shu
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages143-150
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450391283
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Nov 2021
Event13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2021 - Virtual, Online, Netherlands
Duration: 8 Nov 2021 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2021

Conference

Conference13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2021
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/11/21 → …

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