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Pooling is essentially an operation from the field of Mathematical Morphology, with max pooling as a limited special case. The more general setting of MorphPooling greatly extends the tool set for building neural networks. In addition to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Rick Groenendijk , Leo Dorst , Theo Gevers

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown to be effective in handling unordered data like point clouds and meshes. In this work we propose novel approaches for graph convolution, pooling and unpooling, inspired from finite differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Moshe Eliasof , Eran Treister

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have led to major breakthroughs in a variety of domains such as drug discovery, social network analysis, and travel time estimation. However, they lack interpretability which hinders human trust and thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jonas Jürß , Lucie Charlotte Magister , Pietro Barbiero , Pietro Liò , Nikola Simidjievski

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have enabled major advances in image classification through convolution and pooling. In particular, image pooling transforms a connected discrete lattice into a reduced lattice with the same connectivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Stevan Stanovic , Benoit Gaüzère , Luc Brun

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have enabled major advances in image classification through convolution and pooling. In particular, image pooling transforms a connected discrete grid into a reduced grid with the same connectivity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Stevan Stanovic , Benoit Gaüzère , Luc Brun

Pooling is a crucial operation in computer vision, yet the unique structure of skeletons hinders the application of existing pooling strategies to skeleton graph modelling. In this paper, we propose an Improved Graph Pooling Network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Cong Wu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Josef Kittler

Graph property prediction is drawing increasing attention in the recent years due to the fact that graphs are one of the most general data structures since they can contain an arbitrary number of nodes and connections between them, and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Eric Alcaide

Convolutional graph networks are used in particle physics for effective event reconstructions and classifications. However, their performances can be limited by the considerable amount of sensors used in modern particle detectors if applied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-10 M. Bachlechner , T. Birkenfeld , P. Soldin , A. Stahl , C. Wiebusch

We address the polling problem in social networks where individuals collaborate to choose the most favorite choice amongst some options, without divulging their vote and publicly exposing their potentially malicious actions. Given this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Bao-Thien Hoang , Abdessamad Imine

Graph neural networks have been widely used on modeling graph data, achieving impressive results on node classification and link prediction tasks. Yet, obtaining an accurate representation for a graph further requires a pooling function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jinheon Baek , Minki Kang , Sung Ju Hwang

This work generalizes graph neural networks (GNNs) beyond those based on the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) algorithm, graph Laplacians, and diffusions. Our approach, denoted Relational Pooling (RP), draws from the theory of finite partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Ryan L. Murphy , Balasubramaniam Srinivasan , Vinayak Rao , Bruno Ribeiro

Recently, there has been an emerging trend to integrate persistent homology (PH) into graph neural networks (GNNs) to enrich expressive power. However, naively plugging PH features into GNN layers always results in marginal improvement with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Chaolong Ying , Xinjian Zhao , Tianshu Yu

Graph pooling has gained attention for its ability to obtain effective node and graph representations for various downstream tasks. Despite the recent surge in graph pooling approaches, there is a lack of standardized experimental settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Pengyun Wang , Junyu Luo , Yanxin Shen , Ming Zhang , Shaoen Qin , Hanwen Xing , Siyu Heng , Xiao Luo

Pooling is a critical operation in convolutional neural networks for increasing receptive fields and improving robustness to input variations. Most existing pooling operations downsample the feature maps, which is a lossy process. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Jiaojiao Zhao , Cees G. M. Snoek

Classifying whole images is a classic problem in machine learning, and graph neural networks are a powerful methodology to learn highly irregular geometries. It is often the case that certain parts of a point cloud are more important than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Lindsey Gray , Thomas Klijnsma , Shamik Ghosh

In this paper we present a deep neural network topology that incorporates a simple to implement transformation invariant pooling operator (TI-POOLING). This operator is able to efficiently handle prior knowledge on nuisance variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Dmitry Laptev , Nikolay Savinov , Joachim M. Buhmann , Marc Pollefeys

Convolution and pooling are the key operations to learn hierarchical representation for graph classification, where more expressive $k$-order($k>1$) method requires more computation cost, limiting the further applications. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhangyang Gao , Haitao Lin , Stan. Z Li

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

Graph neural networks (GNN) extends deep learning to graph-structure dataset. Similar to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) using on image prediction, convolutional and pooling layers are the foundation to success for GNN on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lingjie Kong , Yun Liao

We present a novel and hierarchical approach for supervised classification of signals spanning over a fixed graph, reflecting shared properties of the dataset. To this end, we introduce a Convolutional Cluster Pooling layer exploiting a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Angelo Porrello , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara