Anomaly detection in large graphs

by Christos Faloutsos

Social Computing Workshop, ARL

Sept. 27-28, 2016

Abstract

Given a large graph, like who-calls-whom, or who-likes-whom,  what behavior is normal and what should be surprising, possibly due to fraudulent activity? How do graphs evolve over time? We focus on these topics: (a) anomaly detection in large static graphs and (b) patterns and anomalies in large time-evolving graphs.

For the first, we present a list of static and temporal laws, including advances patterns like 'eigenspokes'; we show how to use them to spot suspicious activities, in on-line buyer-and-seller settings, in FaceBook, in twitter-like networks. For the second, we show how to handle time-evolving graphs as tensors, how to handle large tensors in map-reduce environments, as well as some discoveries such settings.

We conclude with some open research questions for graph mining.

Foils

Foils  in pdf (presented, condensed version); and the full, 1h presentation in pptx (including 'hidden' foils).


Last updated by: Christos Faloutsos, Sept. 27, 2016.