提出新型图重构攻击与防御方法,突破同质性限制。
Beyond Homophily: Towards Generalized Graph Reconstruction Attack and Defense

- 将GNN推理建模为马尔可夫链,逐层优化邻接矩阵
- 攻击提升重构精度,防御在隐私与准确率间平衡
- 适用于同质/异质图,适合隐私保护研究者
图神经网络(GNN)广泛应用于关系数据,但可能泄露训练图的邻接信息,如社交关系、交易记录等。本文研究图重构攻击(GRA),即从训练好的GNN中重建原始邻接矩阵,考虑不同攻击者信息水平。系统分析了在特征、标签、嵌入和预测下邻接信息可被恢复的条件,发现其受图同质性、异质性及模型归纳偏置影响。基于此,将GNN前向传播视为依赖拓扑的马尔可夫链,提出互补的攻击与防御方法:攻击端采用MC-GRA(+),通过优化代理邻接矩阵使各层表示与目标模型对齐;防御端提出MC-GPB(+), 在表示链中抑制邻接相关信 息,同时保持分类准确率。在同质与异质图基准数据集上测试显示,所提攻击重构质量优于已有方法,所提防御显著降低重构成功率,且准确率损失微小。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely deployed on relational data, yet they can leak sensitive or proprietary information about the training graph adjacency, e.g., social ties, transactions, and interactions. This work studies graph reconstruction attacks (GRA), a form of model inversion that reconstructs the training adjacency from a trained GNN, given different levels of attacker-side information. We first provide a systematic characterization of when and why adjacency becomes recoverable through features, labels, embeddings, and predictions, with leakage modulated by graph homophily, heterophily, and the model's inductive bias. Motivated by these findings, we view GNN inference through a Markov chain approximation lens, treating the layered forward computation as a chain of topology-dependent representations. Building on this view, we develop complementary attack and defense methods. On the attack side, we propose MC-GRA (+), which reconstructs the adjacency by optimizing a surrogate adjacency whose GNN-induced representations align with those of the target model at each layer. On the defense side, we propose MC-GPB (+), which suppresses adjacency-dependent information throughout the representation chain while aiming to preserve classification accuracy under a privacy-utility trade-off. Experiments across homophilic/heterophilic graph benchmarks and GNNs show that our attacks improve reconstruction fidelity over prior methods, while our defenses reduce reconstruction success with only minor accuracy loss.
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