Summary of Partitioning Message Passing For Graph Fraud Detection, by Wei Zhuo et al.
Partitioning Message Passing for Graph Fraud Detection
by Wei Zhuo, Zemin Liu, Bryan Hooi, Bingsheng He, Guang Tan, Rizal Fathony, Jia Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the challenges in applying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to Graph Fraud Detection (GFD) tasks, particularly label imbalance and homophily-heterophily mixture. Existing models focus on augmenting graph structure to accommodate GNNs’ bias towards homophily by excluding heterophilic neighbors. In contrast, this work argues that distinguishing neighbors with different labels is key. The proposed Partitioning Message Passing (PMP) paradigm is designed for GFD, where neighbors with distinct classes are aggregated using node-specific aggregation functions. This allows the center node to adaptively adjust information from its heterophilic and homophilic neighbors, avoiding dominance by benign nodes. Theoretical connections are established between PMP’s spatial formulation and spectral analysis, demonstrating its capability to handle mixed graphs. Experimental results show that PMP can significantly improve performance on GFD tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper solves a problem in using computers to detect fraud on networks. When we try to use special computer models called Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for this task, we run into two main issues: some nodes are very similar and others are quite different. Existing solutions ignore the nodes that are very different, but this paper says that’s not the right approach. Instead, it proposes a new way of processing information from these nodes that takes their differences into account. This allows the model to better understand which nodes might be involved in fraud. The results show that this new method works much better than existing approaches. |
