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Chaoxi Niu, Guansong Pang, Ling Chen

HimNet introduces a hierarchical memory network for graph-level anomaly detection that learns normal patterns at both fine-grained node and holistic graph levels. The model achieved superior performance on 13 out of 16 real-world datasets and demonstrated robustness to anomaly contamination in training data.

Key insights

  • Capturing hierarchical normal patterns (both fine-grained local and holistic global) is essential for comprehensive graph-level anomaly detection.
  • Decoupling the reconstruction process from direct encoder outputs by using memory-approximated representations enhances the model's ability to differentiate anomalous graphs.
  • Memory networks provide a robust mechanism to learn and store only "normal" graph prototypes, improving performance and stability in the presence of anomaly contamination.

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