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Beltrami Flow and Neural Diffusion on Graphs

Machine Learning 2021-10-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a novel class of graph neural networks based on the discretised Beltrami flow, a non-Euclidean diffusion PDE. In our model, node features are supplemented with positional encodings derived from the graph topology and jointly evolved by the Beltrami flow, producing simultaneously continuous feature learning and topology evolution. The resulting model generalises many popular graph neural networks and achieves state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09443,
  title  = {Beltrami Flow and Neural Diffusion on Graphs},
  author = {Benjamin Paul Chamberlain and James Rowbottom and Davide Eynard and Francesco Di Giovanni and Xiaowen Dong and Michael M Bronstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09443},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021

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