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Feature learning in neural networks is crucial for their expressive power and inductive biases, motivating various theoretical approaches. Some approaches describe network behavior after training through a change in kernel scale from…

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A large driver of the complexity of graph learning is the interplay between structure and features. When analyzing the expressivity of graph neural networks, however, existing approaches ignore features in favor of structure, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Martin Carrasco , Olga Zaghen , Kavir Sumaraj , Erik Bekkers , Bastian Rieck

In this paper, the flexibility, versatility and predictive power of kernel regression are combined with now lavishly available network data to create regression models with even greater predictive performances. Building from previous work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-05 E. Pei , E. Fokoué

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

A geometric graph associated with a set of points $P= \{x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n \} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a fixed kernel function $\mathsf{K}:\mathbb{R}^d\times \mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ is a complete graph on $P$ such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yang Cao , Yichuan Deng , Wenyu Jin , Xiaoyu Li , Zhao Song , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

The generalization performance of kernel methods is largely determined by the kernel, but common kernels are stationary thus input-independent and output-independent, that limits their applications on complicated tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Can neural networks learn to compare graphs without feature engineering? In this paper, we show that it is possible to learn representations for graph similarity with neither domain knowledge nor supervision (i.e.\ feature engineering or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Rami Al-Rfou , Dustin Zelle , Bryan Perozzi

Graphs are fundamental mathematical structures used in various fields to represent data, signals and processes. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning/estimating graphs from data. The proposed framework includes (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Hilmi E. Egilmez , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

Compositional generalization (the ability to respond correctly to novel combinations of familiar components) is thought to be a cornerstone of intelligent behavior. Compositionally structured (e.g. disentangled) representations support this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Samuel Lippl , Kim Stachenfeld

How would randomly shuffling feature vectors among nodes from the same class affect graph neural networks (GNNs)? The feature shuffle, intuitively, perturbs the dependence between graph topology and features (A-X dependence) for GNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Soo Yong Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Fanchen Bu , Jaemin Yoo , Jiliang Tang , Kijung Shin

Graph kernels based on the $1$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and corresponding neural architectures recently emerged as powerful tools for (supervised) learning with graphs. However, due to the purely local nature of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Christopher Morris , Gaurav Rattan , Petra Mutzel

Supervised learning has recently garnered significant attention in the field of computational physics due to its ability to effectively extract complex patterns for tasks like solving partial differential equations, or predicting material…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Raphaël Carpintero Perez , Sébastien da Veiga , Josselin Garnier , Brian Staber

In this work, we introduce kernels with random Fourier features in the meta-learning framework to leverage their strong few-shot learning ability. We propose meta variational random features (MetaVRF) to learn adaptive kernels for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Xiantong Zhen , Haoliang Sun , Yingjun Du , Jun Xu , Yilong Yin , Ling Shao , Cees Snoek

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on graph-structured data. However, recent empirical studies suggest that GNNs are very susceptible to distribution shift. There is still significant ambiguity about why…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Qi Zhu , Yizhu Jiao , Natalia Ponomareva , Jiawei Han , Bryan Perozzi

In the past, the dichotomy between homophily and heterophily has inspired research contributions toward a better understanding of Deep Graph Networks' inductive bias. In particular, it was believed that homophily strongly correlates with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Daniele Castellana , Federico Errica

We propose a new graph-theoretic benchmark in this paper. The benchmark is developed to address shortcomings of an existing widely-used graph benchmark. We thoroughly studied a large number of traditional and contemporary graph algorithms…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-05-06 Andy B. Yoo , Yang Liu , Sheila Vaidya , Stephen Poole

Inference of space-time varying signals on graphs emerges naturally in a plethora of network science related applications. A frequently encountered challenge pertains to reconstructing such dynamic processes, given their values over a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Daniel Romero , Georgios B. Giannakis

Kernels on graphs have had limited options for node-level problems. To address this, we present a novel, generalized kernel for graphs with node feature data for semi-supervised learning. The kernel is derived from a regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yin-Cong Zhi , Felix L. Opolka , Yin Cheng Ng , Pietro Liò , Xiaowen Dong

In deep neural networks, better results can often be obtained by increasing the complexity of previously developed basic models. However, it is unclear whether there is a way to boost performance by decreasing the complexity of such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junran Wu , Shangzhe Li , Jianhao Li , Yicheng Pan , Ke Xu

The convolution operator at the core of many modern neural architectures can effectively be seen as performing a dot product between an input matrix and a filter. While this is readily applicable to data such as images, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Luca Cosmo , Giorgia Minello , Alessandro Bicciato , Michael Bronstein , Emanuele Rodolà , Luca Rossi , Andrea Torsello