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A curated list of adversarial attacks and defenses papers on graph-structured data.

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This list serves as a complement to the survey below.

Adversarial Attack and Defense on Graph Data: A Survey (Updated in Oct 2022. More than 110 papers reviewed).

  • Arxiv Version (Latest)
@article{sun2018adversarial,
  title={Adversarial Attack and Defense on Graph Data: A Survey},
  author={Sun, Lichao and Dou, Yingtong and Yang, Carl and Kai Zhang and Wang, Ji and Yixin Liu and Yu, Philip S. and He, Lifang and Li, Bo},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10528},
  year={2018}
}
  • TKDE Version
@article{sun2022adversarial,
  title={Adversarial attack and defense on graph data: A survey},
  author={Sun, Lichao and Dou, Yingtong and Yang, Carl and Zhang, Kai and Wang, Ji and Philip, S Yu and He, Lifang and Li, Bo},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
  year={2022},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

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Attack

Attack Papers 2023 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2023 Revisiting Robustness in Graph Machine Learning Attack Node Classification GCN, SGC, APPNP, GAT, GATv2, GraphSAGE, LP ICLR'23 Link Link
2023 Unnoticeable Backdoor Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node classification, Graph classification GCN, GraphSage, and GAT ArXiv Link Link
2023 Attacking Fake News Detectors via Manipulating News Social Engagement Attack Fake News Detection GAT, GCN, and GraphSAGE) WWW'23 Link Link
2023 HyperAttack: Multi-Gradient-Guided White-box Adversarial Structure Attack of Hypergraph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification HGNNs ArXiv Link
2023 Turning Strengths into Weaknesses: A Certified Robustness Inspired Attack Framework against Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GCN CVPR'23 Link
2023 Adversary for Social Good: Leveraging Attribute-Obfuscating Attack to Protect User Privacy on Social Networks Attack Attribute Protection On Social Networks GNNs SecureComm 2022 Link
2023 Node Injection for Class-specific Network Poisoning Attack Node Classification GCN arXiv Link Link
2023 GUAP: Graph Universal Attack Through Adversarial Patching Attack Node Classification GCN arXiv Link Link

Attack Papers 2022 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2022 GANI: Global Attacks on Graph Neural Networks via Imperceptible Node Injections Attack Node Classification GCN/SGC/Jaccard/SimPGCN Arxiv Link
2022 Motif-Backdoor: Rethinking the Backdoor Attack on Graph Neural Networks via Motifs Attack Graph Classification GCN/SAGPool/GIN/ Arxiv Link
2022 Towards Reasonable Budget Allocation in Untargeted Graph Structure Attacks via Gradient Debias Attack Node Classification GCN/GAT/GraphSAGE NeurIPS 2022 Link Link
2022 Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on Discrete-Time Dynamic Graph Models Attack Dynamic Link Prediction/Node Classification GC-LSTM/EVOLVEGCN/DYSAT NeurIPS 2022 Workshop TGL Link
2022 A2S2-GNN: Rigging GNN-Based Social Status by Adversarial Attacks in Signed Social Networks Attack Classification in unsigned or undirected graphs GNNs IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security Link
2022 Let Graph be the Go Board: Gradient-free Node Injection Attack for Graph Neural Networks via Reinforcement Learning Attack Node Classification GCN/SGC/GAT/APPNP AAAI23 Link Link
2022 QuerySnout: Automating the Discovery of Attribute Inference Attacks against Query-Based Systems Attack Query-based systems attribute inference Diffix/TableBuilder/SimpleQBS CCS 2022 Link Link
2022 Are Defenses for Graph Neural Networks Robust? Attack Node Classification GNN, GCN, Jaccard GCN, SVD GCN, GNNGuard, RGCN, ProGNN, GRAND, Soft Median GDC NeurIPS 2022 Link Link
2022 Poisoning GNN-based Recommender Systems with Generative Surrogate-based Attacks Attack Promotion/Recommendation/Re-producing GNN ACM TIS Link
2022 Dealing with the unevenness: deeper insights in graph-based attack and defense Attack Set-Cover problem GCN, RGCN, GCN-Jaccard, Pro-GNN Machine Learning Link
2022 Membership Inference Attacks Against Robust Graph Neural Network Attack Membership Inference GCN CSS 2022 Link
2022 Sparse Vicious Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Link prediction GNN arXiv Link Link
2022 Model Inversion Attacks against Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GCN, GAT and GraphSAGE TKDE Link Link
2022 Exploratory Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks for Semi-Supervised Node Classification Attack Semi-Supervised Node Classification GNN Pattern Recognition Link
2022 Adversarial Inter-Group Link Injection Degrades the Fairness of Graph Neural Networks Attack node classification GNN IEEE ICDM 2022 Link Link
2022 Resisting Graph Adversarial Attack via Cooperative Homophilous Augmentation Attack semi-Supervised Node Classification GNN ECML PKDD 2022 Link
2022 What Does the Gradient Tell When Attacking the Graph Structure Attack Node Classification GCN, GraphSage and H2GCN arXiv Link
2022 Robust Node Classification on Graphs: Jointly from Bayesian Label Transition and Topology-based Label Propagation Attack Node Classification GNNs CIKM 2022 Link Link
2022 Revisiting Item Promotion in GNN-based Collaborative Filtering: A Masked Targeted Topological Attack Perspective Attack Collaborative filtering LightGCN arXiv Link
2022 Link-Backdoor: Backdoor Attack on Link Prediction via Node Injection Attack Link Prediction GAE, VGAE, GIC, ARGA, ARVGA arXiv Link Link
2022 Graph Structural Attack by Perturbing Spectral Distance Attack node classification two-layer GCN KDD 2022 Link
2022 Are Gradients on Graph Structure Reliable in Gray-box Attacks? Attack node classification tasks GraphSage CIKM 2022 Link
2022 Adversarial Camouflage for Node Injection Attack on Graphs Attack semi-supervised information retrieval task GNNs arXiv Link
2022 CLUSTER ATTACK: Query-based Adversarial Attacks on Graphs with Graph-Dependent Priors Attack node classification GNNs IJCAI 2022 Link
2022 IoT-based Android Malware Detection Using Graph Neural Network With Adversarial Defense Attack Malware Detection GNN IEEE Internet of Things Link
2022 Private Graph Extraction via Feature Explanations Attack node classification 2-layer GCN arXiv Link
2022 Towards Secrecy-Aware Attacks Against Trust Prediction in Signed Graphs Attack trust prediction in signed graphs SGCN, SNEA arXiv Link
2022 Camouflaged Poisoning Attack on Graph Neural Networks Attack node classification GCN ICMR 2022 Link
2022 LOKI: A Practical Data Poisoning Attack Framework against Next Item Recommendations Attack Next Item Recommendations BPRMF, FPMC, GRU4REC, TransRec TKDE 2022 Link
2022 Poisoning GNN-based Recommender Systems with Generative Surrogate-based Attacks Attack Promotion/Recommendation/Re-producing GNNs ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2022 Link
2022 Transferable Graph Backdoor Attack Attack Graph Classification GNNs RAID 2022 Link
2022 Cluster Attack: Query-based Adversarial Attacks on Graphs with Graph-Dependent Priors Attack Node Classification GNNs IJCAI 2022 Link Link
2022 Adversarial Robustness of Graph-based Anomaly Detection Attack Anomaly Detection GNNs Arxiv Link
2022 Adversarial Attack Framework on Graph Embedding Models with Limited Knowledge Attack Node Classification GNNs Preprint Link
2022 Label specificity attack: Change your label as I want Attack Node Classification GNNs IJIS Link
2022 Bandits for Structure Perturbation-based Black-box Attacks to Graph Neural Networks with Theoretical Guarantees Attack Node Classification GNNs CVPR 2022 Link Link
2022 AdverSparse: An Adversarial Attack Framework for Deep Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks Attack Spatial-Temporal Graph Embedding Deep Spatial-Temporal GNNs ICASSP 2022 Link
2022 Projective Ranking-based GNN Evasion Attacks Attack Graph Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2022 Attacking Community Detectors: Mislead Detectors via Manipulating the Graph Structure Attack Community Detection Community Detection Algs, GNNs MobiCASE 2021 Link
2022 A Targeted Universal Attack on Graph Convolutional Network by Using Fake Nodes Attack Node Classification GCN Neural Processing Letters Link Link
2022 Surrogate Representation Learning with Isometric Mapping for Gray-box Graph Adversarial Attacks Attack Node Classification GNNs WSDM 2022 Link
2022 Black-box Node Injection Attack for Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link Link
2022 Understanding and Improving Graph Injection Attack by Promoting Unnoticeability Attack Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2022 Link Link
2022 Unsupervised Graph Poisoning Attack via Contrastive Loss Back-propagation Attack Node Classification, Link Prediction GCN WWW 2022 Link Link
2022 Neighboring Backdoor Attacks on Graph Convolutional Network Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2022 Interpretable and Effective Reinforcement Learning for Attacking against Graph-based Rumor Detection Attack Rumor Detection RGCN Arxiv Link

Attack Papers 2021 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2021 Task and Model Agnostic Adversarial Attack on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Model Stealing Attacks Against Inductive Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification, Model Stealing GNNs IEEE S&P 2022 Link Link
2021 How Members of Covert Networks Conceal the Identities of Their Leaders Attack Covert Network Leader Detection Centrality Measures ACM TIST 2021 Link
2021 Adapting Membership Inference Attacks to GNN for Graph Classification: Approaches and Implications Attack Graph Classification GNNs ICDM 2021 Link Link
2021 Graph Structural Attack by Spectral Distance Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2021 Structural Attack against Graph Based Android Malware Detection Attack Malware Detection Graph Based Android Malware Detector CCS 2021 Link
2021 Adversarial Attacks on Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Instance Attribution Methods Attack Knowledge Graph Embeddings Knowledge Graph Embedding Models EMNLP 2021 Link Link
2021 Adversarial Attack against Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment Attack Knowledge Graph Alignment Knowledge Graph Embedding Models EMNLP 2021 Link
2021 Graph Robustness Benchmark: Benchmarking the Adversarial Robustness of Graph Machine Learning Attack Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2021 Link Link
2021 Adversarial Attacks on Graph Classification via Bayesian Optimisation Attack Graph Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2021 Link Link
2021 Robustness of Graph Neural Networks at Scale Attack Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2021 Link Link
2021 Large-Scale Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks via Graph Coarsening Attack Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 Mind Your Solver! On Adversarial Attack and Defense for Combinatorial Optimization Attack Combinatorial Optimization Combinatorial Optimization Solvers ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 Bandits for Black-box Attacks to Graph Neural Networks with Structure Perturbation Attack Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 Poisoning Attacks against Knowledge Graph-based Recommendation Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Attack Knowledge Graph-based Recommender Systems GNNs Neural Computing and Applications Link
2021 FHA: Fast Heuristic Attack Against Graph Convolutional Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs ICDS 2021 Link
2021 Inference Attacks Against Graph Neural Networks Attack Graph/Property Inference GNNs USENIX Security 2022 Link Link
2021 Graph-Fraudster: Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Network Based Vertical Federated Learning Attack Node Classification, Federated Learning GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Query-based Adversarial Attacks on Graph with Fake Nodes Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2021 Single Node Injection Attack against Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs CIKM 2021 Link Link
2021 Projective Ranking: A Transferable Evasion Attack Method on Graph Neural Networks Attack Graph Classification GCN CIKM 2021 Link
2021 Spatially Focused Attack against Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks Attack Spatiotemporal Forecasting GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Derivative-free optimization adversarial attacks for graph convolutional networks Attack Node Classification GCN PeerJ Computer Science Link
2021 A Hard Label Black-box Adversarial Attack Against Graph Neural Networks Attack Graph Classification GNNs CCS 2021 Link
2021 Single-Node Attack for Fooling Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs KDD 2021 Workshop Link Link
2021 Jointly Attacking Graph Neural Network and its Explanations Attack GNN Explanation GNNEXPLAINER, PGExplainer Arxiv Link
2021 The Robustness of Graph k-shell Structure under Adversarial Attacks Attack K-shell Value K-shell Decomposition Arxiv Link
2021 Poisoning Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Relation Inference Patterns Attack Knowledge Graph Embedding Knowledge Graph Embedding Models ACL 2021 Link Link
2021 Structack: Structure-based Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GCN ACM Hypertext Link Link
2021 Optimal Edge Weight Perturbations to Attack Shortest Paths Attack Shortest Path Shortest Path Algs Arxiv Link
2021 Adversarial Attack on Graph Neural Networks as An Influence Maximization Problem Attack Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 BinarizedAttack: Structural Poisoning Attacks to Graph-based Anomaly Detection Attack Anomaly Detection Graph Anomaly Detection Algs Arxiv Link
2021 TDGIA: Effective Injection Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs KDD 2021 Link
2021 Graph Adversarial Attack via Rewiring Attack Node Classification GCN KDD 2021 Link
2021 Evaluating Graph Vulnerability and Robustness using TIGER Attack Robustness Measure Robustness Measure Arxiv Link Link
2021 Adversarial Attack Framework on Graph Embedding Models with Limited Knowledge Attack Node Classification Graph Embedding Models Arxiv Link
2021 Attacking Graph Neural Networks at Scale Attack Node Classification GCN AAAI 2021 Workshop Link
2021 Black-box Gradient Attack on Graph Neural Networks: Deeper Insights in Graph-based Attack and Defense Attack Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Enhancing Robustness and Resilience of Multiplex Networks Against Node-Community Cascading Failures Attack Complex Networks Robustness Complex Networks IEEE TSMC Link
2021 PATHATTACK: Attacking Shortest Paths in Complex Networks Attack Shortest Path Shortest Path Arxiv Link
2021 Universal Spectral Adversarial Attacks for Deformable Shapes Attack Shape Classification ChebyNet, PointNet CVPR 2021 Link
2021 Preserve, Promote, or Attack? GNN Explanation via Topology Perturbation Attack Object Detection GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Towards Revealing Parallel Adversarial Attack on Politician Socialnet of Graph Structure Attack Node Classification GCN Security and Communication Networks Link
2021 Network Embedding Attack: An Euclidean Distance Based Method Attack Node Classification, Community Detection Network Embedding Methods MDATA Link
2021 Adversarial Attack on Network Embeddings via Supervised Network Poisoning Attack Node Classification, Link Prediction DeepWalk, Node2vec, LINE, GCN PAKDD 2021 Link Link
2021 GraphAttacker: A General Multi-Task Graph Attack Framework Attack Node Classification, Graph Classification, Link Prediction GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Membership Inference Attack on Graph Neural Networks Attack Membership Inference GNNs Arxiv Link

Attack Papers 2020 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2020 Adversarial Label-Flipping Attack and Defense for Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs ICDM 2020 Link Link
2020 Exploratory Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GCN ICDM 2020 Link Link
2020 A Targeted Universal Attack on Graph Convolutional Network Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link Link
2020 Attacking Graph-Based Classification without Changing Existing Connections Attack Node Classification Collective Classification Models ACSAC 2020 Link
2020 Learning to Deceive Knowledge Graph Augmented Models via Targeted Perturbation Attack Commonsense Reasoning Recommender System Knowledge Graph ICLR 2021 Link Link
2020 One Vertex Attack on Graph Neural Networks-based Spatiotemporal Forecasting Attack Spatiotemporal Forecasting GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Single-Node Attack for Fooling Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks as An Influence Maximization Problem Attack Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Adversarial Attacks on Deep Graph Matching Attack Graph Matching Deep Graph Matching Models NeurIPS 2020 Link
2020 Towards More Practical Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 A Graph Matching Attack on Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Attack Record Linkage Rrivacy-preserving Record Linkage Methods CIKM 2020 Link
2020 Adaptive Adversarial Attack on Graph Embedding via GAN Attack Node Classification GCN, DeepWalk, LINE SocialSec Link
2020 Scalable Adversarial Attack on Graph Neural Networks with Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Attack Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2020 Semantic-preserving Reinforcement Learning Attack Against Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection Attack Malware Detection GCN Arxiv Link
2020 Adversarial Attack on Large Scale Graph Attack Node Classification GNN Arxiv Link
2020 Efficient Evasion Attacks to Graph Neural Networks via Influence Function Attack Node Classification GNN Arxiv Link
2020 Reinforcement Learning-based Black-Box Evasion Attacks to Link Prediction in Dynamic Graphs Attack Link Prediction DyGCN Arxiv Link
2020 Adversarial attack on BC classification for scale-free networks Attack Broido and Clauset classification scale-free network AIP Chaos Link
2020 Adversarial Attacks on Link Prediction Algorithms Based on Graph Neural Networks Attack Link Prediction GNN Asia CCS 2020 Link
2020 Practical Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks Attack Node Classification GNN ICML 2020 Workshop Link
2020 Link Prediction Adversarial Attack Via Iterative Gradient Attack Attack Link Prediction GAE IEEE TCSS Link
2020 An Efficient Adversarial Attack on Graph Structured Data Attack Node Classification GCN IJCAI 2020 Workshop Link
2020 Graph Backdoor Attack Node Classification Graph Classification GNNs USENIX Security 2021 Link
2020 Backdoor Attacks to Graph Neural Networks Attack Graph Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2020 Robust Spammer Detection by Nash Reinforcement Learning Attack Fraud Detection Graph-based Fraud Detector KDD 2020 Link Link
2020 Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks: Perturbations and their Patterns Attack Node Classification GNN TKDD Link
2020 Adversarial Attack on Hierarchical Graph Pooling Neural Networks Attack Graph Classification GNN Arxiv Link
2020 Stealing Links from Graph Neural Networks Attack Inferring Link GNNs USENIX Security 2021 Link
2020 Scalable Attack on Graph Data by Injecting Vicious Nodes Attack Node Classification GCN ECML-PKDD 2020 Link
2020 Network disruption: maximizing disagreement and polarization in social networks Attack Manipulating Opinion Graph Model, Social Network Arxiv Link
2020 Adversarial Perturbations of Opinion Dynamics in Networks Attack Manipulating Opinion Graph Model Arxiv Link
2020 Non-target-specific Node Injection Attacks on Graph Neural Networks: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach Attack Node Classification GCN WWW 2020 Link
2020 MGA: Momentum Gradient Attack on Network Attack Node Classification, Community Detection GCN, DeepWalk, node2vec Arxiv Link
2020 Indirect Adversarial Attacks via Poisoning Neighbors for Graph Convolutional Networks Attack Node Classification GCN BigData 2019 Link
2020 Graph Universal Adversarial Attacks: A Few Bad Actors Ruin Graph Learning Models Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link Link
2020 Adversarial Attacks to Scale-Free Networks: Testing the Robustness of Physical Criteria Attack Network Structure Physical Criteria Arxiv Link
2020 Adversarial Attack on Community Detection by Hiding Individuals Attack Community Detection GCN WWW 2020 Link Link

Attack Papers 2019 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2019 How Robust Are Graph Neural Networks to Structural Noise? Attack Node Structural Identity Prediction GIN Arxiv Link
2019 Time-aware Gradient Attack on Dynamic Network Link Prediction Attack Link Prediction Dynamic Network Embedding Algs Arxiv Link
2019 All You Need is Low (Rank): Defending Against Adversarial Attacks on Graphs Attack Node Classification GCN, Tensor Embedding WSDM 2020 Link Link
2019 αCyber: Enhancing Robustness of Android Malware Detection System against Adversarial Attacks on Heterogeneous Graph based Model Attack Malware Detection HIN CIKM 2019 Link
2019 A Unified Framework for Data Poisoning Attack to Graph-based Semi-supervised Learning Attack Semi-supervised Learning Label Propagation NeurIPS 2019 Link
2019 Manipulating Node Similarity Measures in Networks Attack Node Similarity Node Similarity Measures AAMAS 2020 Link
2019 Multiscale Evolutionary Perturbation Attack on Community Detection Attack Community Detection Community Metrics Arxiv Link
2019 Attacking Graph Convolutional Networks via Rewiring Attack Node Classification GCN Openreview Link
2019 Node Injection Attacks on Graphs via Reinforcement Learning Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2019 A Restricted Black-box Adversarial Framework Towards Attacking Graph Embedding Models Attack Node Classification GCN, SGC AAAI 2020 Link Link
2019 Topology Attack and Defense for Graph Neural Networks: An Optimization Perspective Attack Node Classification GNN IJCAI 2019 Link Link
2019 Unsupervised Euclidean Distance Attack on Network Embedding Attack Node Embedding GCN Arxiv Link
2019 Generalizable Adversarial Attacks Using Generative Models Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2019 Vertex Nomination, Consistent Estimation, and Adversarial Modification Attack Vertex Nomination VN Scheme Arxiv Link
2019 Data Poisoning Attack against Knowledge Graph Embedding Attack Fact Plausibility Prediction TransE, TransR IJCAI 2019 Link
2019 Adversarial Examples on Graph Data: Deep Insights into Attack and Defense Attack Node Classification GCN IJCAI 2019 Link Link
2019 Adversarial Attacks on Node Embeddings via Graph Poisoning Attack Node Classification, Community Detection node2vec, DeepWalk, GCN, Spectral Embedding, Label Propagation ICML 2019 Link Link
2019 Attacking Graph-based Classification via Manipulating the Graph Structure Attack Node Classification Belief Propagation, GCN CCS 2019 Link
2019 Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks via Meta Learning Attack Node Classification GCN, CLN, DeepWalk ICLR 2019 Link Link

Attack Papers 2018 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2018 Poisoning Attacks to Graph-Based Recommender Systems Attack Recommender System Graph-based Recommendation Algs ACSAC 2018 Link
2018 GA Based Q-Attack on Community Detection Attack Community Detection Modularity, Community Detection Alg IEEE TCSS Link
2018 Data Poisoning Attack against Unsupervised Node Embedding Methods Attack Link Prediction LINE, DeepWalk Arxiv Link
2018 Attack Graph Convolutional Networks by Adding Fake Nodes Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2018 Link Prediction Adversarial Attack Attack Link Prediction GAE, GCN Arxiv Link
2018 Attack Tolerance of Link Prediction Algorithms: How to Hide Your Relations in a Social Network Attack Link Prediction Traditional Link Prediction Algs Scientific Reports Link
2018 Attacking Similarity-Based Link Prediction in Social Networks Attack Link Prediction local&global similarity metrics AAMAS 2019 Link
2018 Fast Gradient Attack on Network Embedding Attack Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2018 Adversarial Attack on Graph Structured Data Attack Node Classification, Graph Classification GNN, GCN ICML 2018 Link Link
2018 Adversarial Attacks on Neural Networks for Graph Data Attack Node Classification GCN KDD 2018 Link Link
2018 Hiding individuals and communities in a social network Attack Community Detection Community Detection Algs Nature Human Behavior Link Link

Attack Papers 2017 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2017 Practical Attacks Against Graph-based Clustering Attack Graph Clustering SVD, node2vec, Community Detection Alg CCS 2017 Link
2017 Adversarial Sets for Regularising Neural Link Predictors Attack Link Prediction Knowledge Graph Embeddings UAI 2017 Link Link

Defense

Defense Papers 2023 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2023 Revisiting Robustness in Graph Machine Learning Defense Node Classification GCN, SGC, APPNP, GAT, GATv2, GraphSAGE, LP ICLR'23 Link Link
2023 Empowering Graph Representation Learning with Test-Time Graph Transformation Defense Node Classification GCN ICLR Link Link
2023 Adversarial Danger Identification on Temporally Dynamic Graph Defense Temporally Dynamic Graphs Hybrid GNN-based time series classifier IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Link

Defense Papers 2022 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2022 Privacy Protection for Marginal-Sensitive Community Individuals Against Adversarial Community Detection Attacks Defense Community Detection DICE, Random Target Attack (RTA) IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Link
2022 DeepInsight: Topology Changes Assisting Detection of Adversarial Samples on Graphs Defense Node Classification Two-layer GCNs IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Link
2022 ERGCN: Data enhancement-based robust graph convolutional network against adversarial attacks Defense Information Sciences Node Classification GCN/GCN-Jaccard/RGGCN/Pro-GNN/SimP-GCN/EGCN Link Link
2022 On the Vulnerability of Graph Learning based Collaborative Filtering Defense Graph Learning based Collaborative Filtering NGCF/LightGCN ACM Transactions on Information Systems Link
2022 FocusedCleaner: Sanitizing Poisoned Graphs for Robust GNN-based Node Classification Defense Node Classification GNN-Jaccard/ProGNN/RGCN/MedianGNN/SimPGCN/GNNGUARD/ElasticGNN/AirGNNGASOLINE/maskGVAE Arxiv Link
2022 Robust cross-network node classification via constrained graph mutual information Defense cross-network node classification GNNs Knowledge-Based Systems Link
2022 On the Robustness of Graph Neural Diffusion to Topology Perturbations Defense Node Classification GAT, GraphSAGE, GIN, APPNP arXiv preprint Link Link
2022 Defending Against Backdoor Attack on Graph Nerual Network by Explainability Defense graph classification task GraphConv, GIN arXiv Link
2022 Adversarial for Social Privacy: A Poisoning Strategy to Degrade User Identity Linkage Defense user identity linkage GCNs arXiv Link
2022 Towards an Optimal Asymmetric Graph Structure for Robust Semi-supervised Node Classification Defense semi-supervised node classification GCN KDD 2022 Link
2022 Reliable Representations Make A Stronger Defender: Unsupervised Structure Refinement for Robust GNN Defense Node Classification GNNs KDD 2022 Link
2022 Robust Graph Representation Learning for Local Corruption Recovery Defense Node Attribute Recovery GNNs ICML 2022 Workshop Link
2022 Appearance and Structure Aware Robust Deep Visual Graph Matching: Attack, Defense and Beyond Defense Graph Matching Graph Matching Algs CVPR 2022 Link Link
2022 Large-Scale Privacy-Preserving Network Embedding against Private Link Inference Attacks Defense Privacy Protection Network Embedding Algs Arxiv Link
2022 Detecting Topology Attacks against Graph Neural Networks Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2022 GUARD: Graph Universal Adversarial Defense Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link Link
2022 Robust Graph Neural Networks via Ensemble Learning Defense Node Classification GNNs Mathematics Link
2022 AN-GCN: An Anonymous Graph Convolutional Network Against Edge-Perturbing Attacks Defense Node Classification GNNs IEEE TNNLS Link
2022 Exploring High-Order Structure for Robust Graph Structure Learning Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2022 Defending Graph Convolutional Networks against Dynamic Graph Perturbations via Bayesian Self-supervision Defense Node Classification GNNs AAAI 2022 Link Link
2022 Graph alternate learning for robust graph neural networks in node classification Defense Node Classification GNNs Neural Computing and Applications Link
2022 Robust Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Classification Heterogeneous GNNs AAAI 2022 Link
2022 How Does Bayesian Noisy Self-Supervision Defend Graph Convolutional Networks? Defense Node Classification GNNs Neural Processing Letters Link
2022 GARNET: Reduced-Rank Topology Learning for Robust and Scalable Graph Neural Networks Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2022 Mind Your Solver! On Adversarial Attack and Defense for Combinatorial Optimization Defense Combinatorial Optimization Combinatorial Optimization Methods Arxiv Link
2022 Unsupervised Adversarially Robust Representation Learning on Graphs Defense Node Classification, Link Prediction, Community Detection GNNs AAAI 2022 Link

Defense Papers 2021 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2021 Mind Your Solver! On Adversarial Attack and Defense for Combinatorial Optimization Defense Combinatorial Optimization Combinatorial Optimization Methods Arxiv Link
2021 Robust Graph Neural Networks via Probabilistic Lipschitz Constraints Defense Decentralized Control GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Graph-based Adversarial Online Kernel Learning with Adaptive Embedding Defense Node Classification Kernel Learning Models ICDM 2021
2021 Not All Low-Pass Filters are Robust in Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Node Classification GCN NeurIPS 2021 Link
2021 Graph Neural Networks with Adaptive Residual Defense Node Classification, Abnormal Features GNNs NeurIPS 2021 Link
2021 Generalization of Neural Combinatorial Solvers Through the Lens of Adversarial Robustness Defense Combinatorial Optimization Combinatorial Solvers NeurIPS 2021 Link
2021 Defending Graph Neural Networks via Tensor-Based Robust Graph Aggregation Defense Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 Robust Graph Data Learning with Latent Graph Convolutional Representation Defense Node Classification, Node Clustering GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 Edge Rewiring Goes Neural: Boosting Network Resilience via Policy Gradient Defense Graph Resilience GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 On the Relationship between Heterophily and Robustness of Graph Neural Networks Defense Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 A General Unified Graph Neural Network Framework Against Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2022 OpenReview Link
2021 Node Copying: A Random Graph Model for Effective Graph Sampling Defense Node Classification GNNs Signal Processing Link
2021 Node Feature Kernels Increase Graph Convolutional Robustness Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link Link
2021 Speedup Robust Graph Structure Learning with Low-Rank Information Defense Node Classification GNNs CIKM 2021 Link
2021 A Lightweight Metric Defence Strategy for Graph Neural Networks Against Poisoning Attacks Defense Node Classification GNNs ICICS 2021 Link Link
2021 CoG: a Two-View Co-training Framework for Defending Adversarial Attacks on Graph Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2021 Robust Counterfactual Explanations on Graph Neural Networks Defense Link Prediction Probabilistic Network Embedding Models Arxiv Link
2021 Elastic Graph Neural Networks Defense Node classification GNNs ICML 2021 Link Link
2021 Expressive 1-Lipschitz Neural Networks for Robust Multiple Graph Learning against Adversarial Attacks Defense Graph Classification, Graph Matching GNNs ICML 2021 Link
2021 Integrated Defense for Resilient Graph Matching Defense Graph Matching Graph Matching Algs ICML 2021 Link
2021 NetFense: Adversarial Defenses against Privacy Attacks on Neural Networks for Graph Data Defense Privacy Protection GNNs TKDE Link
2021 Stability of graph convolutional neural networks to stochastic perturbations Defense Robustness Certification GNNs Signal Processing Link
2021 DeepInsight: Interpretability Assisting Detection of Adversarial Samples on Graphs Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Improving Robustness of Graph Neural Networks with Heterophily-Inspired Designs Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Understanding Structural Vulnerability in Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Node Classification GNNs IJCAI 2021 Link Link
2021 Certified Robustness of Graph Neural Networks against Adversarial Structural Perturbation Defense Robustness Certification GNNs KDD 2021 Link
2021 Unveiling Anomalous Nodes Via Random Sampling and Consensus on Graphs Defense Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection Algs ICASSP 2021 Link
2021 Graph Sanitation with Application to Node Classification Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2021 Robust Network Alignment via Attack Signal Scaling and Adversarial Perturbation Elimination Defense Network Alignment Network Alignment Algorithms WWW 2021 Link
2021 Information Obfuscation of Graph Neural Networks Defense Recommender System, Knowledge Graph, Quantum Chemistry GNNs ICML 2021 Link Link
2021 Graph Embedding for Recommendation against Attribute Inference Attacks Defense Recommender System GCN WWW 2021 Link
2021 Spatio-Temporal Sparsification for General Robust Graph Convolution Networks Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2021 Detection and Defense of Topological Adversarial Attacks on Graphs Defense Node Classification GCN AISTATS 2021 Link
2021 Robust graph convolutional networks with directional graph adversarial training Defense Node Classification GCN Applied Intelligence Link
2021 Interpretable Stability Bounds for Spectral Graph Filters Defense Robustness Certification Spectral Graph Filter Arxiv Link
2021 Personalized privacy protection in social networks through adversarial modeling Defense Privacy Protection GCN AAAI 2021 Link
2021 Node Similarity Preserving Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Node Classification GNNs WSDM 2021 Link Link

Defense Papers 2020 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2020 Graph Stochastic Neural Networks for Semi-supervised Learning Defense Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 Smoothing Adversarial Training for GNN Defense Node Classification, Community Detection GCN IEEE TCSS Link
2020 Unsupervised Adversarially-Robust Representation Learning on Graphs Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2020 AANE: Anomaly Aware Network Embedding For Anomalous Link Detection Defense Node Classification GNNs ICDM 2020 Link
2020 Provably Robust Node Classification via Low-Pass Message Passing Defense Anomaly Detection GNNs ICDM 2020 Link
2020 Learning to Drop: Robust Graph Neural Network via Topological Denoising Defense Node Classification GNNs WSDM 2021 Link Link
2020 Robust Android Malware Detection Based on Attributed Heterogenous Graph Embedding Defense Malware Detection Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding FCS 2020 Link
2020 Adversarial Detection on Graph Structured Data Defense Graph Classification GNNs PPMLP 2020 Link
2020 On the Stability of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks under Edge Rewiring Defense Robustness Certification GNNs Arxiv Link
2020 Collective Robustness Certificates Defense Robustness Certification GNNs ICLR 2021 Link
2020 Towards Robust Graph Neural Networks against Label Noise Defense Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Certifying Robustness of Graph Laplacian Based Semi-Supervised Learning Defense Robustness Certification GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Graph Adversarial Networks: Protecting Information against Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Attribute Inference GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Ricci-GNN: Defending Against Structural Attacks Through a Geometric Approach Defense Node Classification GNNs ICLR 2021 OpenReview Link
2020 Graph Contrastive Learning with Augmentations Defense Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 Graph Information Bottleneck Defense Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 Certified Robustness of Graph Convolution Networks for Graph Classification under Topological Attacks Defense Graph Classification GCN NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 Reliable Graph Neural Networks via Robust Aggregation Defense Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 Graph Random Neural Networks for Semi-Supervised Learning on Graphs Defense Node Classification GCN NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 Variational Inference for Graph Convolutional Networks in the Absence of Graph Data and Adversarial Settings Defense Node Classification GCN NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 GNNGuard: Defending Graph Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Classification GNNs NeurIPS 2020 Link Link
2020 A Feature-Importance-Aware and Robust Aggregator for GCN Defense Node Classification Graph Classification GNNs CIKM 2020 Link Link
2020 Uncertainty-Matching Graph Neural Networks to Defend Against Poisoning Attacks Defense Node Classification GNNs AAAI 2021 Link
2020 Cross Entropy Attack on Deep Graph Infomax Defense Node Classification DGI IEEE ISCAS Link
2020 RoGAT: a robust GNN combined revised GAT with adjusted graphs Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2020 A Novel Defending Scheme for Graph-Based Classification Against Graph Structure Manipulating Attack Defense Node Classification MRF SocialSec Link
2020 Uncertainty-aware Attention Graph Neural Network for Defending Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Classification GNNs AAAI 2021 Link
2020 Certified Robustness of Graph Classification against Topology Attack with Randomized Smoothing Defense Graph Classification GCB IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Link
2020 Adversarial Immunization for Improving Certifiable Robustness on Graphs Defense Node Classification GNNs WSDM 2021 Link
2020 Robust Collective Classification against Structural Attacks Defense Node Classification Associative Markov Networks UAI 2020 Link
2020 Enhancing Robustness of Graph Convolutional Networks via Dropping Graph Connections Defense Node Classification GCN Preprint Link
2020 Robust Training of Graph Convolutional Networks via Latent Perturbation Defense Node Classification GCN ECML-PKDD 2020 Link
2020 Backdoor Attacks to Graph Neural Networks Defense Graph Classification GNNs Arxiv Link
2020 DefenseVGAE: Defending against Adversarial Attacks on Graph Data via a Variational Graph Autoencoder Defense Node Classification GNNs Arxiv Link Link
2020 Robust Spammer Detection by Nash Reinforcement Learning Defense Fraud Detection Graph-based Fraud Detector KDD 2020 Link Link
2020 Certifiable Robustness of Graph Convolutional Networks under Structure Perturbations Defense Robustness Certification GCN KDD 2020 Link Link
2020 Efficient Robustness Certificates for Discrete Data: Sparsity-Aware Randomized Smoothing for Graphs, Images and More Defense Robustness Certification GNN ICML 2020 Link Link
2020 Robust Graph Representation Learning via Neural Sparsification Defense Node Classification GNN ICML 2020 Link
2020 Graph Structure Learning for Robust Graph Neural Networks Defense Node Classification GCN KDD 2020 Link Link
2020 GCN-Based User Representation Learning for Unifying Robust Recommendation and Fraudster Detection Defense Recommender System GCN SIGIR 2020 Link
2020 Anonymized GCN: A Novel Robust Graph Embedding Method via Hiding Node Position in Noise Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2020 A Robust Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network Model for Collaborative Filtering Defense Recommender System GCN Arxiv Link
2020 On The Stability of Polynomial Spectral Graph Filters Defense Graph Property Spectral Graph Filter ICASSP 2020 Link Link
2020 On the Robustness of Cascade Diffusion under Node Attacks Defense Influence Maximization IC Model WWW 2020 Workshop Link Link
2020 Friend or Faux: Graph-Based Early Detection of Fake Accounts on Social Networks Defense Fraud Detection Graph-based Fraud Detectors WWW 2020 Link
2020 Tensor Graph Convolutional Networks for Multi-relational and Robust Learning Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2020 Adversary for Social Good: Protecting Familial Privacy through Joint Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Classification Privacy Protection AAAI 2020 Link
2020 Improving the Robustness of Wasserstein Embedding by Adversarial PAC-Bayesian Learning Defense Robustness Certification Wasserstein Embedding AAAI 2020 Link
2020 Adversarial Perturbations of Opinion Dynamics in Networks Defense Manipulating Opinion Graph Model Arxiv Link
2020 Topological Effects on Attacks Against Vertex Classification Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2020 Towards an Efficient and General Framework of Robust Training for Graph Neural Networks Defense Node Classification GCN ICASSP 2020 Link
2020 Certified Robustness of Community Detection against Adversarial Structural Perturbation via Randomized Smoothing Defense Community Detection Community Detection Algs WWW 2020 Link
2020 Data Poisoning Attacks on Graph Convolutional Matrix Completion Defense Recommender System GCMC ICA3PP 2019 Link

Defense Papers 2019 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2019 How Robust Are Graph Neural Networks to Structural Noise? Defense Node Structural Identity Prediction GIN Arxiv Link
2019 GraphDefense: Towards Robust Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2019 All You Need is Low (Rank): Defending Against Adversarial Attacks on Graphs Defense Node Classification GCN, Tensor Embedding WSDM 2020 Link Link
2019 αCyber: Enhancing Robustness of Android Malware Detection System against Adversarial Attacks on Heterogeneous Graph based Model Defense Malware Detection HIN CIKM 2019 Link
2019 Edge Dithering for Robust Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Node Classification GCN Arxiv Link
2019 GraphSAC: Detecting anomalies in large-scale graphs Defense Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detection Algs Arxiv Link
2019 Certifiable Robustness to Graph Perturbations Defense Robustness Certification GNN NeurIPS 2019 Link Link
2019 Power up! Robust Graph Convolutional Network based on Graph Powering Defense Node Classification GCN Openreview Link Link
2019 Adversarial Robustness of Similarity-Based Link Prediction Defense Link Prediction Local Similarity Metrics ICDM 2019 Link
2019 Adversarial Training Methods for Network Embedding Defense Node Classification DeepWalk WWW 2019 Link Link
2019 Transferring Robustness for Graph Neural Network Against Poisoning Attacks Defense Node Classification GNN WSDM 2020 Link Link
2019 Improving Robustness to Attacks Against Vertex Classification Defense Node Classification GCN KDD Workshop 2019 Link
2019 Target Defense Against Link-Prediction-Based Attacks via Evolutionary Perturbations Defense Link Prediction Link Prediction Algs TKDE Link
2019 Latent Adversarial Training of Graph Convolution Networks Defense Node Classification GCN LRGSD@ICML Link
2019 Certifiable Robustness and Robust Training for Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Robustness Certification GCN KDD 2019 Link Link
2019 Topology Attack and Defense for Graph Neural Networks: An Optimization Perspective Defense Node Classification GNN IJCAI 2019 Link Link
2019 Adversarial Examples on Graph Data: Deep Insights into Attack and Defense Defense Node Classification GCN IJCAI 2019 Link Link
2019 Adversarial Defense Framework for Graph Neural Network Defense Node Classification GCN, GraphSAGE Arxiv Link
2019 Investigating Robustness and Interpretability of Link Prediction via Adversarial Modifications Defense Link Prediction Knowledge Graph Embedding NAACL 2019 Link
2019 Robust Graph Convolutional Networks Against Adversarial Attacks Defense Node Classification GCN KDD 2019 Link Link
2019 Can Adversarial Network Attack be Defended? Defense Node Classification GNN Arxiv Link
2019 Virtual Adversarial Training on Graph Convolutional Networks in Node Classification Defense Node Classification GCN PRCV 2019 Link
2019 Batch Virtual Adversarial Training for Graph Convolutional Networks Defense Node Classification GCN LRGSD@ICML Link
2019 Comparing and Detecting Adversarial Attacks for Graph Deep Learning Defense Node Classification GCN, GAT, Nettack RLGM@ICLR 2019 Link
2019 Graph Adversarial Training: Dynamically Regularizing Based on Graph Structure Defense Node Classification GCN TKDE Link Link

Defense Papers 2018 [Back to Top]

Year Title Type Target Task Target Model Venue Paper Code
2018 Characterizing Malicious Edges targeting on Graph Neural Networks Defense Detected Added Edges GNN, GCN OpenReview Link
2018 PeerNets: Exploiting Peer Wisdom Against Adversarial Attacks Defense Image Classification LeNet, ResNet ICLR 2019 Link
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