RQPool: A Novel Multi-Branch Graph-Level Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection (AD) is crucial across various domains, as it identifies irregularities or unusual patterns that, if quickly addressed, can prevent financial and data losses, protect health, and prevent disasters. Many systems such as social networks, communication systems, and biological network...

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Main Authors: Aaron Alex Philip, Ziad Kobti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2025-05-01
Series:Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/FLAIRS/article/view/138971
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Summary:Anomaly Detection (AD) is crucial across various domains, as it identifies irregularities or unusual patterns that, if quickly addressed, can prevent financial and data losses, protect health, and prevent disasters. Many systems such as social networks, communication systems, and biological networks are naturally represented as graphs with entities as nodes and interactions as edges. By analyzing these structures, we can uncover anomalies that are not apparent using traditional methods. However, current Graph-based AD techniques face significant challenges, particularly low accuracy on larger datasets. As datasets grow larger, the complexity of the graphs increases. This complexity makes it more challenging for models to distinguish normal variations from true anomalies. Moreover, existing Graph Neural Network (GNN) algorithms focus primarily on spatial domain features while neglecting spectral properties. Furthermore, most algorithms concentrate on intra-graph properties such as edges and nodes, while overlooking rich global inter-graph relationships like Graph Similarity Measures and Cross-Graph Connectivity. To address these challenges, we propose a novel hybrid method, RQPool, which integrates intra-graph spectral properties and inter-graph spatial properties into a unified Graph-level Anomaly Detection classifier. In empirical evaluations across multiple datasets, RQPool consistently achieves higher AUC and macro-F1 scores compared to purely spectral or spatial baselines, the current state-of-the- art approaches, particularly excelling on large-scale graphs.
ISSN:2334-0754
2334-0762