Reconstruction Enhanced Multi-View Contrastive Learning for Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks

Understand

Detecting abnormal nodes from attributed networks is of great importance in many real applications, such as financial fraud detection and cyber security.

• This task is challenging due to both the complex interactions between the anomalous nodes with other counterparts and their inconsistency in terms of attributes.
• This paper proposes a self-supervised learning framework that jointly optimizes a multi-view contrastive learning-based module and an attribute reconstruction-based module to more accurately detect anomalies on attributed networks.
• Specifically, two contrastive learning views are firstly established, which allow the model to better encode rich local and global information related to the abnormality.