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We present a novel method for graph partitioning, based on reinforcement learning and graph convolutional neural networks. Our approach is to recursively partition coarser representations of a given graph. The neural network is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Alice Gatti , Zhixiong Hu , Tess Smidt , Esmond G. Ng , Pieter Ghysels

Inspired by the conventional pooling layers in convolutional neural networks, many recent works in the field of graph machine learning have introduced pooling operators to reduce the size of graphs. The great variety in the literature stems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Daniele Grattarola , Daniele Zambon , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Cesare Alippi

Developing scalable solutions for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for link prediction tasks is challenging due to the high data dependencies which entail high computational cost and huge memory footprint. We propose a new method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Nasrullah Sheikh , Xiao Qin , Berthold Reinwald , Chuan Lei

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proven to be successful tools for semi-supervised learning on graph-based datasets. For sparse graphs, linear and polynomial filter functions have yielded impressive results. For large non-sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Dominik Alfke , Martin Stoll

Graph pooling that summaries the information in a large graph into a compact form is essential in hierarchical graph representation learning. Existing graph pooling methods either suffer from high computational complexity or cannot capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yunsheng Pang , Yunxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Li

Seminal works on graph neural networks have primarily targeted semi-supervised node classification problems with few observed labels and high-dimensional signals. With the development of graph networks, this setup has become a de facto…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Clément Vignac , Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Pascal Frossard

As large-scale graphs become increasingly more prevalent, it poses significant computational challenges to process, extract and analyze large graph data. Graph coarsening is one popular technique to reduce the size of a graph while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Chen Cai , Dingkang Wang , Yusu Wang

To accelerate the training of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) on real-world large-scale sparse graphs, downsampling methods are commonly employed as a preprocessing step. However, the effects of graph sparsity and topological structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qinji Shu , Hang Sheng , Feng Ji , Hui Feng , Bo Hu

For graph classification tasks, many traditional kernel methods focus on measuring the similarity between graphs. These methods have achieved great success on resolving graph isomorphism problems. However, in some classification problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Jianming Huang , Hiroyuki Kasai

In the broader machine learning literature, data-generation methods demonstrate promising results by generating additional informative training examples via augmenting sparse labels. Such methods are less studied in graphs due to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hang Cui , Tarek Abdelzaher

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently achieved great empirical success in learning graph-structured data. To address its scalability issue due to the recursive embedding of neighboring features, graph topology sampling has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hongkang Li , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) draw their strength from explicitly modeling the topological information of structured data. However, existing GNNs suffer from limited capability in capturing the hierarchical graph representation which plays…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jinyu Yang , Peilin Zhao , Yu Rong , Chaochao Yan , Chunyuan Li , Hehuan Ma , Junzhou Huang

Graph Transformers (GTs) have made remarkable achievements in graph-level tasks. However, most existing works regard graph structures as a form of guidance or bias for enhancing node representations, which focuses on node-central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiaorui Qi , Qijie Bai , Yanlong Wen , Haiwei Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been used for node and graph classification tasks with great success, but GNNs model dependencies among the attributes of nearby neighboring nodes rather than dependencies among observed node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Mengyue Hang , Jennifer Neville , Bruno Ribeiro

Due to the significant computational challenge of training large-scale graph neural networks (GNNs), various sparse learning techniques have been exploited to reduce memory and storage costs. Examples include \textit{graph sparsification}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Miao Liu

Graph classification receives a great deal of attention from the non-Euclidean machine learning community. Recent advances in graph coarsening have enabled the training of deeper networks and produced new state-of-the-art results in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Enxhell Luzhnica , Ben Day , Pietro Liò

This paper introduces SpaPool, a novel pooling method that combines the strengths of both dense and sparse techniques for a graph neural network. SpaPool groups vertices into an adaptive number of clusters, leveraging the benefits of both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Rodrigue Govan , Romane Scherrer , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher

Most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) cannot distinguish some graphs or indeed some pairs of nodes within a graph. This makes it impossible to solve certain classification tasks. However, adding additional node features to these models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Beni Egressy , Roger Wattenhofer

Outstanding achievements of graph neural networks for spatiotemporal time series analysis show that relational constraints introduce an effective inductive bias into neural forecasting architectures. Often, however, the relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Andrea Cini , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are characterized by their capacity of processing graph-structured data. However, due to the sparsity of labels under semi-supervised learning, they have been found to exhibit biased performance on specific…

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