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Graph based Anomaly Detection and Description: A Survey
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@MISC{Akoglu_graphbased,
author = {Leman Akoglu and Hanghang Tong and Danai Koutra},
title = {Graph based Anomaly Detection and Description: A Survey},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and anomalies in unstructured collections of multi-dimensional points, with graph data becoming ubiquitous, techniques for structured graph data have been of focus recently. As objects in graphs have long-range correlations, a suite of novel technology has been developed for anomaly detection in graph data. This survey aims to provide a general, comprehensive, and structured overview of the state-of-the-art methods for anomaly detection in data represented as graphs. As a key contribution, we give a general framework for the algorithms categorized under various settings: unsupervised vs. (semi-)supervised approaches, for static vs. dynamic graphs, for attributed vs. plain graphs. We highlight the effectiveness, scalability, generality, and robustness aspects of the methods. What is more, we stress the importance of anomaly attribution and highlight the major techniques that facilitate digging out the root cause, or the ‘why’, of the detected anomalies for further analysis and sense-making. Finally, we present several real-world applications of graph-based anomaly detection in diverse domains, including financial, auction, computer traffic, and social networks. We conclude our survey with a discussion on open theoretical and practical challenges in the field.
Keyphrases
anomaly detection graph data long-range correlation major technique various setting numerous technique plain graph present several real-world application law enforcement health care past year root cause computer traffic general framework vital task multi-dimensional point robustness aspect diverse domain anomaly attribution static v key contribution graph-based anomaly detection numerous high-impact application detected anomaly state-of-the-art method novel technology unsupervised v structured graph data dynamic graph unstructured collection social network practical challenge
