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GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation

Machine Learning 2020-06-29 v5 Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper presents a new Graph Neural Network (GNN) type using feature-wise linear modulation (FiLM). Many standard GNN variants propagate information along the edges of a graph by computing "messages" based only on the representation of the source of each edge. In GNN-FiLM, the representation of the target node of an edge is additionally used to compute a transformation that can be applied to all incoming messages, allowing feature-wise modulation of the passed information. Results of experiments comparing different GNN architectures on three tasks from the literature are presented, based on re-implementations of baseline methods. Hyperparameters for all methods were found using extensive search, yielding somewhat surprising results: differences between baseline models are smaller than reported in the literature. Nonetheless, GNN-FiLM outperforms baseline methods on a regression task on molecular graphs and performs competitively on other tasks.

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@article{arxiv.1906.12192,
  title  = {GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation},
  author = {Marc Brockschmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.12192},
  year   = {2020}
}

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As published in ICML 2020 proceedings

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