ADVERSPARSE: AN ADVERSARIAL ATTACK FRAMEWORK FOR DEEP SPATIAL-TEMPORAL GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS

Jiayu Li, Tianyun Zhang, Shengmin Jin, Makan Fardad, Reza Zafarani

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Abstract

Spatial-temporal graph have been widely observed in various domains such as neuroscience, climate research, and transportation engineering. The state-of-the-art models of spatial-temporal graphs rely on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to obtain explicit representations for such networks and to discover hidden spatial dependencies in them. These models have demonstrated superior performance in various tasks. In this paper, we propose a sparse adversarial attack framework ADVERSPARSE to illustrate that when only a few key connections are removed in such graphs, hidden spatial dependencies learned by such spatial-temporal models are significantly impacted, leading to various issues such as increasing prediction errors. We formulate the adversarial attack as an optimization problem and solve it by the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). Experiments show that ADVERSPARSE can find and remove key connections in these graphs, leading to malfunctioning models, even in models capable of learning hidden spatial dependencies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5857-5861
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Singapore
Duration: May 23 2022May 27 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/23/225/27/22

Keywords

  • Graph sparsification
  • adversarial attack

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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