Self-Healing Metadata Catalog via Graph Neural Anomaly Detection

Authors

  • Vasudevan Ananthakrishnan Yakshna Solutions Inc, USA Author
  • Bhargav Kumar Konidena Vintech Solutions, USA Author
  • Lavanya Shanmugam Tata Consultancy Services, USA Author

Keywords:

Graph Neural Networks, metadata catalog, schema drift, data lineage, anomaly detection, self-healing systems

Abstract

Comprehensive metadata management solutions that handle structural and data lineage issues are essential as the data assets develop rapidly. The aim of this paper is to introduce a GNN-based self-healing metadata catalogue architecture for real-time anomaly detection. Schema drifts, unresolved references, and parentless tables are in lineage diagrams.

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Published

12-03-2025

How to Cite

[1]
Vasudevan Ananthakrishnan, Bhargav Kumar Konidena, and Lavanya Shanmugam, “Self-Healing Metadata Catalog via Graph Neural Anomaly Detection”, Newark J. Hum. Centric AI Robot Inter., vol. 5, pp. 146–177, Mar. 2025, Accessed: Dec. 20, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.njhcair.org/index.php/publication/article/view/64