MIDAS

C++ implementation of

• Real-time Streaming Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs. Siddharth Bhatia, Rui Liu, Bryan Hooi, Minji Yoon, Kijung Shin, Christos Faloutsos. TKDD 2022.
• MIDAS: Microcluster-Based Detector of Anomalies in Edge Streams. Siddharth Bhatia, Bryan Hooi, Minji Yoon, Kijung Shin, Christos Faloutsos. AAAI 2020.

The old implementation is in another branch OldImplementation, it should be considered as being archived and will hardly receive feature updates.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Demo
• Customization
• Other Files
• In Other Languages
• Online Coverage
• Citation

Features

• Finds Anomalies in Dynamic/Time-Evolving Graph: (Intrusion Detection, Fake Ratings, Financial Fraud)
• Detects Microcluster Anomalies (suddenly arriving groups of suspiciously similar edges e.g. DoS attack)
• Theoretical Guarantees on False Positive Probability
• Constant Memory (independent of graph size)
• Constant Update Time (real-time anomaly detection to minimize harm)
• Up to 55% more accurate and 929 times faster than the state of the art approaches
• Experiments are performed using the following datasets:
  • DARPA
  • TwitterWorldCup2014
  • TwitterSecurity

Demo

If you use Windows:

1. Open a Visual Studio developer command prompt, we want their toolchain
2. cd to the project root MIDAS/
3. cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -GNinja -S . -B build/release
4. cmake --build build/release --target Demo
5. cd to MIDAS/build/release/
6. .\Demo.exe

If you use Linux/macOS:

1. Open a terminal
2. cd to the project root MIDAS/
3. cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -S . -B build/release
4. cmake --build build/release --target Demo
5. cd to MIDAS/build/release/
6. ./Demo

The demo runs on MIDAS/data/DARPA/darpa_processed.csv, which has 4.5M records, with the filtering core (MIDAS-F).

The scores will be exported to MIDAS/temp/Score.txt, higher means more anomalous.

All file paths are absolute and "hardcoded" by CMake, but it's suggested NOT to run by double clicking on the executable file.

Requirements

Core

• C++11
• C++ standard libraries

Demo (if experimental ROC-AUC impl)

• C++ standard libraries

Demo (if sklearn ROC-AUC impl)

• Python 3 (MIDAS/util/EvaluateScore.py)
  • pandas: I/O
  • scikit-learn: Compute ROC-AUC

Experiment

• (Optional) Intel TBB: Parallelization
• (Optional) OpenMP: Parallelization

Other python utility scripts

• Python 3
  • pandas
  • scikit-learn

Customization

Switch to sklearn ROC-AUC Implementation

In MIDAS/example/Demo.cpp.
Comment out section "Evaluate scores (experimental)"
Uncomment section "Write output scores" and "Evaluate scores".

Different CMS Size / Decay Factor / Threshold

Those are arguments of cores' constructors, which are at MIDAS/example/Demo.cpp:67-69.

Switch Cores

Cores are instantiated at MIDAS/example/Demo.cpp:67-69, uncomment the chosen one.

Custom Dataset + Demo.cpp

You need to prepare three files:

• Meta file
  • Only includes an integer N, the number of records in the dataset
  • Use its path for pathMeta
  • E.g. MIDAS/data/DARPA/darpa_shape.txt
• Data file
  • A header-less csv format file of shape [N,3]
  • Columns are sources, destinations, timestamps
  • Use its path for pathData
  • E.g. MIDAS/data/DARPA/darpa_processed.csv
• Label file
  • A header-less csv format file of shape [N,1]
  • The corresponding label for data records
    • 0 means normal record
    • 1 means anomalous record
  • Use its path for pathGroundTruth
  • E.g. MIDAS/data/DARPA/darpa_ground_truth.csv

Custom Dataset + Custom Runner

1. Include the header MIDAS/src/NormalCore.hpp, MIDAS/src/RelationalCore.hpp or MIDAS/src/FilteringCore.hpp
2. Instantiate cores with required parameters
3. Call operator() on individual data records, it returns the anomaly score for the input record

Other Files

example/

Experiment.cpp

The code we used for experiments.
It will try to use Intel TBB or OpenMP for parallelization.
You should comment all but only one runner function call in the main() as most results are exported to MIDAS/temp/Experiiment.csv together with many intermediate files.

Reproducible.cpp

Similar to Demo.cpp, but with all random parameters hardcoded and always produce the same result.
It's for other developers and us to test if the implementation in other languages can produce acceptable results.

util/

DeleteTempFile.py, EvaluateScore.py and ReproduceROC.py will show their usage and a short description when executed without any argument.

AUROC.hpp

Experimental ROC-AUC implementation in C++11. More info at this repo.

PreprocessData.py

The code to process the raw dataset into an easy-to-read format.
Datasets are always assumed to be in a folder in MIDAS/data/.
It can process the following dataset(s)

• DARPA/darpa_original.csv -> DARPA/darpa_processed.csv, DARPA/darpa_ground_truth.csv, DARPA/darpa_shape.txt

In Other Languages

1. Python: Rui Liu's MIDAS.Python, Ritesh Kumar's pyMIDAS
2. Python (pybind): Wong Mun Hou's MIDAS
3. Golang: Steve Tan's midas
4. Ruby: Andrew Kane's midas
5. Rust: Scott Steele's midas_rs
6. R: Tobias Heidler's MIDASwrappeR
7. Java: Joshua Tokle's MIDAS-Java
8. Julia: Ashrya Agrawal's MIDAS.jl

Online Coverage

1. ACM TechNews
2. AIhub
3. Hacker News
4. KDnuggets
5. Microsoft
6. Towards Data Science

Citation

If you use this code for your research, please consider citing the arXiv preprint

@misc{bhatia2020realtime,
    title={Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Edge Streams},
    author={Siddharth Bhatia and Rui Liu and Bryan Hooi and Minji Yoon and Kijung Shin and Christos Faloutsos},
    booktitle={Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)},
    year={2022}
}

or the AAAI paper

@inproceedings{bhatia2020midas,
    title="MIDAS: Microcluster-Based Detector of Anomalies in Edge Streams",
    author="Siddharth {Bhatia} and Bryan {Hooi} and Minji {Yoon} and Kijung {Shin} and Christos {Faloutsos}",
    booktitle="AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)",
    year="2020"
}