Graph Attention Networks with Physical Constraints for Anomaly Detection
2601.12426v1

Authors

Mohammadhossein Homaei,Iman Khazrak,Ruben Molano,Andres Caro,Mar Avila

Abstract

Water distribution systems (WDSs) face increasing cyber-physical risks, which make reliable anomaly detection essential. Many data-driven models ignore network topology and are hard to interpret, while model-based ones depend strongly on parameter accuracy.

This work proposes a hydraulic-aware graph attention network using normalized conservation law violations as features. It combines mass and energy balance residuals with graph attention and bidirectional LSTM to learn spatio-temporal patterns.

A multi-scale module aggregates detection scores from node to network level. On the BATADAL dataset, it reaches $F1=0.979$, showing $3.3$pp gain and high robustness under $15\%$ parameter noise.

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