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Poster

Adversarial Attacks on Node Embeddings via Graph Poisoning

Aleksandar Bojchevski · Stephan Günnemann

Pacific Ballroom #61

Keywords: [ Representation Learning ] [ Networks and Relational Learning ] [ Adversarial Examples ]


Abstract:

The goal of network representation learning is to learn low-dimensional node embeddings that capture the graph structure and are useful for solving downstream tasks. However, despite the proliferation of such methods, there is currently no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. We provide the first adversarial vulnerability analysis on the widely used family of methods based on random walks. We derive efficient adversarial perturbations that poison the network structure and have a negative effect on both the quality of the embeddings and the downstream tasks. We further show that our attacks are transferable since they generalize to many models and are successful even when the attacker is restricted.

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