About this Research Topic
Graph-based machine learning has been widely applied to study security and privacy problems, including fraud detection (e.g., malware detection, fake user/review detection in social networks, malicious website detection, auction fraud detection), APT infection detection, attribute inference attacks, etc. However, graph-based machine learning methods are also demonstrated to be vulnerable when facing an adversary. Existing studies on ma-chine learning security and privacy mainly focused on machine learning for non-graph data, and security and privacy in graph-based machine learning is largely unexplored.
The goal of this Research Topic is to make graph-based machine learning secure and private. To this end, we encourage researchers to provide solutions to address security and privacy issues faced by graph-based machine learning methods (especially for collective classification methods and graph neural network methods). Important problems include:
• Security attacks (e.g., evasion attacks, poisoning attacks, backdoor attacks) to graph-based machine learning
• Empirical/certified defense against security attacks to graph-based machine learning
• Privacy attacks (e.g., membership inference, model inversion, attribute inference, proper-ty inference, etc.) to graph-based machine learning
• Empirical/certified defense against privacy attacks to graph-based machine learning
• Privacy-preserving graph-based machine learning
• Interpretable graph-based machine learning
• Theoretical understanding of the connection between accuracy, robustness, or/and privacy
Keywords: Graph-based machine learning, Privacy-preserving graph-based machine learning, Security, Privacy, Adversarial graph-based machine learning, Security attacks, Privacy attacks
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