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Graph pooling compresses graphs and summarises their topological properties and features in a vectorial representation. It is an essential part of deep graph representation learning and is indispensable in graph-level tasks like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jan von Pichowski , Christopher Blöcker , Ingo Scholtes

Accurate traffic conditions prediction provides a solid foundation for vehicle-environment coordination and traffic control tasks. Because of the complexity of road network data in spatial distribution and the diversity of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Shilin Pu , Liang Chu , Zhuoran Hou , Jincheng Hu , Yanjun Huang , Yuanjian Zhang

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have revolutionized the field of graph representation learning through effectively learned node embeddings, and achieved state-of-the-art results in tasks such as node classification and link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Rex Ying , Jiaxuan You , Christopher Morris , Xiang Ren , William L. Hamilton , Jure Leskovec

Graph pooling compresses graph information into a compact representation. State-of-the-art graph pooling methods follow a hierarchical approach, which reduces the graph size step-by-step. These methods must balance memory efficiency with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yunchong Song , Siyuan Huang , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou , Zhouhan Lin

In this paper, we propose a novel pooling layer for graph neural networks based on maximizing the mutual information between the pooled graph and the input graph. Since the maximum mutual information is difficult to compute, we employ the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Amirhossein Nouranizadeh , Mohammadjavad Matinkia , Mohammad Rahmati , Reza Safabakhsh

Graph neural networks get significant attention for graph representation and classification in machine learning community. Attention mechanism applied on the neighborhood of a node improves the performance of graph neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Manasvi Aggarwal , M. Narasimha Murty

For deep learning problems on graph-structured data, pooling layers are important for down sampling, reducing computational cost, and to minimize overfitting. We define a pooling layer, nervePool, for data structured as simplicial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sarah McGuire Scullen , Ernst Röell , Elizabeth Munch , Bastian Rieck , Matthew Hirn

Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have recently become a powerful technique for many graph-related tasks including graph classification. Current GNN models apply different graph pooling methods that reduce the number of nodes and edges to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Max Khanov , Esra Akbas

Graph pooling is a family of operations which take graphs as input and produce shrinked graphs as output. Modern graph pooling methods are trainable and, in general inserted in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) architectures as graph shrinking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yizhu Chen

Hierarchical graph pooling(HGP) are designed to consider the fact that conventional graph neural networks(GNN) are inherently flat and are also not multiscale. However, most HGP methods suffer not only from lack of considering global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Farshad Noravesh , Reza Haffari , Layki Soon , Arghya Pal

Graph neural networks have achieved great success in learning node representations for graph tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Graph representation learning requires graph pooling to obtain graph representations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Zhengyang Wang , Shuiwang Ji

Graph-level representation learning is the pivotal step for downstream tasks that operate on the whole graph. The most common approach to this problem heretofore is graph pooling, where node features are typically averaged or summed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kaixuan Chen , Jie Song , Shunyu Liu , Na Yu , Zunlei Feng , Gengshi Han , Mingli Song

Recently, there has been considerable research interest in graph clustering aimed at data partition using the graph information. However, one limitation of the most of graph-based methods is that they assume the graph structure to operate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqian Fu , Yao Zhao

We consider the problem of representation learning for graph data. Convolutional neural networks can naturally operate on images, but have significant challenges in dealing with graph data. Given images are special cases of graphs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

Recent advances in representation learning on graphs, mainly leveraging graph convolutional networks, have brought a substantial improvement on many graph-based benchmark tasks. While novel approaches to learning node embeddings are highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Cătălina Cangea , Petar Veličković , Nikola Jovanović , Thomas Kipf , Pietro Liò

We propose a novel approach to compute the MAXCUT in attributed graphs, i.e., graphs with features associated with nodes and edges. Our approach works well on any kind of graph topology and can find solutions that jointly optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Carlo Abate , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Various methods to deal with graph data have been proposed in recent years. However, most of these methods focus on graph feature aggregation rather than graph pooling. Besides, the existing top-k selection graph pooling methods have a few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Liang Zhang , Xudong Wang , Hongsheng Li , Guangming Zhu , Peiyi Shen , Ping Li , Xiaoyuan Lu , Syed Afaq Ali Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun

Graph neural networks achieve high accuracy in link prediction by jointly leveraging graph topology and node attributes. Topology, however, is represented indirectly; state-of-the-art methods based on subgraph classification label nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Liming Pan , Cheng Shi , Ivan Dokmanić

Graph Machine Learning often involves the clustering of nodes based on similarity structure encoded in the graph's topology and the nodes' attributes. On homophilous graphs, the integration of pooling layers has been shown to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Amy Feng , Melanie Weber

Graph pooling methods have been widely used on downsampling graphs, achieving impressive results on multiple graph-level tasks like graph classification and graph generation. An important line called node dropping pooling aims at exploiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gaichao Li , Jinsong Chen , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He