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Poster
Robustness of Graph Neural Networks at Scale
Simon Geisler · Tobias Schmidt · Hakan Şirin · Daniel Zügner · Aleksandar Bojchevski · Stephan Günnemann

Fri Dec 10 08:30 AM -- 10:00 AM (PST) @
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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly important given their popularity and the diversity of applications. Yet, existing studies of their vulnerability to adversarial attacks rely on relatively small graphs. We address this gap and study how to attack and defend GNNs at scale. We propose two sparsity-aware first-order optimization attacks that maintain an efficient representation despite optimizing over a number of parameters which is quadratic in the number of nodes. We show that common surrogate losses are not well-suited for global attacks on GNNs. Our alternatives can double the attack strength. Moreover, to improve GNNs' reliability we design a robust aggregation function, Soft Median, resulting in an effective defense at all scales. We evaluate our attacks and defense with standard GNNs on graphs more than 100 times larger compared to previous work. We even scale one order of magnitude further by extending our techniques to a scalable GNN.

Keywords: Deep Learning · Optimization · Robustness · Adversarial Robustness and Security · Graph Learning

Author Information

Simon Geisler (Technical University of Munich)
Tobias Schmidt (Technical University Munich)
Hakan Şirin (Technical University of Munich)
Daniel Zügner (Technical University of Munich)
Aleksandar Bojchevski (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Stephan Günnemann (Technical University of Munich)

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