GALE: Active Adversarial Learning for Erroneous Node Detection in Graphs

Sheng Guan, Hanchao Ma, Mengying Wang, Yinghui Wu

Abstract: We introduce GALE, an active adversarial learning framework to detect nodes with erroneous information in attributed graphs. GALE is empowered by a new adversarial active error detection framework, which interacts active learning with a graph generative adversarial model to best exploit limited labeled examples of erroneous nodes. It dynamically determines diversified query nodes in batches with bounded size in terms of node typicality to enrich a pool of examples, which in turn provides representative examples to best train an adversarial classifier to capture different types of errors. Moreover, GALE provides an annotation algorithm to suggest a context of possible correct attribute values and error types, to facilitate the labeling of query nodes. We show that using limited queries and examples, GALE significantly improves competing methods such as constraint-based detection, outlier detection, and Graph Neural Networks (e.g. GCNs), with 32%, 31%, and 17% gain in F-1 score on average, and is feasible in learning cost for large graphs.