Lin QI
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Node-to-Neighborhood Semantic Consistency: Text-Topology Alignment for TAGs Anomaly Detection
Bochen Lin | Jianxiang Yu | Jiayi Wu | Lin QI | Lu Huang | Xiang Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Bochen Lin | Jianxiang Yu | Jiayi Wu | Lin QI | Lu Huang | Xiang Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Graph anomaly detection (GAD) on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) is vital for applications such as fraud detection and academic integrity verification. Existing approaches generally fall into two paradigms. GNN-based methods capture structural patterns but struggle to capture fine-grained textual semantics. Methods integrating LLMs with graphs improve semantic understanding yet fail to fully comprehend topological relationships among neighbors. Moreover, both paradigms overlook the correspondence between textual semantics and graph topological relationships, limiting their ability to identify nodes whose semantics are inconsistent with their neighborhoods. In this paper, we formalize TAG anomaly detection as a node-to-neighborhood semantic consistency problem, where anomalies may arise from either textual semantic mismatch or topological deviation between a node and its neighbors. We propose N2NSC (Node-to-Neighborhood Semantic Consistency), a framework that captures the correspondence between graph topology and textual semantics through two complementary fusion paths. The two pathways work synergistically, enabling the LLM to jointly use textual and structural neighborhood information for anomaly detection. Extensive experiments across eight benchmark datasets, with additional validation on two real-world fraud datasets, demonstrate the effectiveness of N2NSC.