Attacking Community Detectors: Mislead Detectors via Manipulating the Graph Structure

Kaibin Wan, Jiamou Liu, Yiwei Liu, Zijian Zhang*, Bakhadyr Khoussainov

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Community detection has been widely studied from many different perspectives, which include heuristic approaches in the past and graph neural network in recent years. With increasing security and privacy concerns, community detectors have been demonstrated to be vulnerable. A slight perturbation to the graph data can greatly change the detection results. In this paper, we focus on dealing with a kind of attack on one of the communities by manipulating the graph structure. We formulate this case as target community problem. The big challenge to solve this problem is the universality on different detectors. For this, we define structural information gain (SIG) to guide the manipulation and design an attack algorithm named SIGM. We compare SIGM with some recent attacks on five graph datasets. Results show that our attack is effective on misleading community detector.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Computing, Applications, and Services - 12th EAI International Conference, MobiCASE 2021, Proceedings
EditorsShuiguang Deng, Albert Zomaya, Ning Li
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages112-128
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030992026
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event12th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, MobiCASE 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 13 Nov 202114 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume434 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)1867-822X

Conference

Conference12th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, MobiCASE 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period13/11/2114/11/21

Keywords

  • Adversarial community detection
  • Graph neural network
  • Structural entropy

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