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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

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Graph representation learning has emerged as a powerful technique for addressing real-world problems. Various downstream graph learning tasks have benefited from its recent developments, such as node classification, similarity search, and…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received massive attention in the field of machine learning on graphs. Inspired by the success of neural networks, a line of research has been conducted to train GNNs to deal with various tasks, such as…

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We propose a mask pretraining method for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve their performance on fitting potential energy surfaces, particularly in water systems. GNNs are pretrained by recovering spatial information related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zehua Zhang , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

Graphs have become an important modeling tool for web applications, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in graph representation learning. However, the performance of traditional GNNs heavily relies on a large amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chenghua Gong , Xiang Li , Jianxiang Yu , Cheng Yao , Jiaqi Tan , Chengcheng Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful deep learning models to generate node embeddings on graphs. When applying deep GNNs on large graphs, it is still challenging to perform training in an efficient and scalable way. We propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hanqing Zeng , Hongkuan Zhou , Ajitesh Srivastava , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning node embeddings in graphs, typically adopting a message-passing scheme. This approach, however, leads to the neighbor explosion problem, with exponentially growing computational and…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years and have achieved excellent performance in semi-supervised node classification tasks. The success of most GNNs relies on one fundamental assumption, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Junchao Lin , Yuan Wan , Jingwen Xu , Xingchen Qi

Training graph neural networks on large datasets has long been a challenge. Traditional approaches include efficiently representing the whole graph in-memory, designing parameter efficient and sampling-based models, and graph partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Dmytro Lopushanskyy , Borun Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized the field of graph learning by learning expressive graph representations from massive graph data. As a common pattern to train powerful GNNs, the "pre-training, adaptation" scheme first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xingbo Fu , Zhenyu Lei , Zihan Chen , Binchi Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Jundong Li

Graph neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for graph representation learning, but their performance heavily relies on abundant task-specific supervision. To reduce labeling requirement, the "pre-train, prompt" paradigms have…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in the recommendation tasks and have obtained very appealing performance. However, most GNN-based recommendation methods suffer from the problem of data sparsity in practice. Meanwhile,…

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Graph neural network (GNN) pre-training methods have been proposed to enhance the power of GNNs. Specifically, a GNN is first pre-trained on a large-scale unlabeled graph and then fine-tuned on a separate small labeled graph for downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Simiao Zuo , Haoming Jiang , Qingyu Yin , Xianfeng Tang , Bing Yin , Tuo Zhao

To develop a preliminary understanding towards Graph Foundation Models, we study the extent to which pretrained Graph Neural Networks can be applied across datasets, an effort requiring to be agnostic to dataset-specific features and their…

Pre-trained graph neural networks (GNNs) transfer well, but adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging due to mismatches between pre-training objectives and task requirements. Graph prompt tuning offers a parameter-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Long D. Nguyen , Binh P. Nguyen

Pre-training powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with unlabeled graph data in a self-supervised manner has emerged as a prominent technique in recent years. However, inevitable objective gaps often exist between pre-training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingbo Fu , Yinhan He , Jundong Li

Cold-start problem is a fundamental challenge for recommendation tasks. Despite the recent advances on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) incorporate the high-order collaborative signal to alleviate the problem, the embeddings of the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Bowen Hao , Jing Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Recent work on Graph Neural Networks has demonstrated that self-supervised pretraining can further enhance performance on downstream graph, link, and node classification tasks. However, the efficacy of pretraining tasks has not been fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jonathan Pilault , Michael Galkin , Bahare Fatemi , Perouz Taslakian , David Vasquez , Christopher Pal

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to various fields due to their powerful representations of graph-structured data. Despite the success of GNNs, most existing GNNs are designed to learn node representations on the fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Seongjun Yun , Minbyul Jeong , Sungdong Yoo , Seunghun Lee , Sean S. Yi , Raehyun Kim , Jaewoo Kang , Hyunwoo J. Kim