An embedding scheme for detecting anomalous block structured graphs

Abstract

Graph-based anomaly detection plays a vital role in various application domains such as network intrusion detection, social network analysis and road traffic monitoring. Although these evolving networks impose a curse of dimensionality on the learning models, they usually contain structural properties that anomaly detection schemes can exploit. The major challenge is finding a feature extraction technique that preserves graph structure while balancing the accuracy of the model against its scalability. We propose the use of a scalable technique known as random projection as a method for structure aware embedding, which extracts relational properties of the network, and present an analytical p..