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AAAI 2026 Main Conference

January 24, 2026

Singapore, Singapore

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While leveraging pseudo-labels has become a common paradigm in untargeted gray-box graph poisoning attacks, it suffers from two critical limitations: the use of brittle hard pseudo-labels that overlook uncertainty and can amplify surrogate model errors, and static guidance that progressively becomes stale as the graph is perturbed. To resolve these issues, we propose MetaDist, a novel framework that reframes the attack as an adversarial self-knowledge distillation process. Here, a ''teacher'' model provides continuously refined soft pseudo-labels to a ''student'' model, with the attack objective being to maximize the divergence between them. MetaDist makes two synergistic innovations. It employs the Reverse KL (RKL) divergence as a more strategic attack loss that efficiently converts uncertain nodes into robust, high-confidence errors. Concurrently, it introduces the Online Adaptive Teacher (OAT) mechanism, which adapts the teacher via student feedback to ensure the guidance signal remains relevant. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MetaDist consistently and significantly outperforms strong baselines across multiple datasets, proving its effectiveness and transferability even against advanced graph defenses.

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