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GNNs are widely used to solve various tasks including node classification and link prediction. Most of the GNN architectures assume the initial embedding to be random or generated from popular distributions. These initial embeddings require…

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Spectral Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) suffer from two critical limitations: poor performance on "heterophilic" graphs and performance collapse at high polynomial degrees (K), known as over-smoothing. Both issues stem from the static,…

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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

The analogy to heat diffusion has enhanced our understanding of information flow in graphs and inspired the development of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, most diffusion-based GNNs emulate passive heat diffusion, which still suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Mengying Jiang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance across various graph learning tasks but face significant computational challenges when applied to large-scale graphs. One effective approach to mitigate these challenges is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Guibin Zhang , Xiangguo Sun , Yanwei Yue , Chonghe Jiang , Kun Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shirui Pan

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) are a class of powerful deep learning methods widely used to learn representations of heterogeneous graphs. Despite the fast development of HGNNs, they still face some challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xiao Yang , Xuejiao Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

Our study reveals new theoretical insights into over-smoothing and feature over-correlation in graph neural networks. Specifically, we demonstrate that with increased depth, node representations become dominated by a low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Andreas Roth , Thomas Liebig

Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) often suffer from oversmoothing, where node representations become overly homogeneous with increasing depth. While techniques like normalization, residual connections, and edge dropout have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jiaqi Wang , Xinyi Wu , James Cheng , Yifei Wang

Brain graph super-resolution (SR) is an under-explored yet highly relevant task in network neuroscience. It circumvents the need for costly and time-consuming medical imaging data collection, preparation, and processing. Current SR methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Pragya Singh , Islem Rekik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been taking role in many areas, thanks to their expressive power on graph-structured data. On the other hand, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are gaining attention as network technologies have been taken to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Taha Tekdogan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved notable success in various applications over graph data. However, recent research has revealed that real-world graphs often contain noise, and GNNs are susceptible to noise in the graph. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tai Hasegawa , Sukwon Yun , Xin Liu , Yin Jun Phua , Tsuyoshi Murata

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) suffer from performance degradation when models go deeper. However, earlier works only attributed the performance degeneration to over-smoothing. In this paper, we conduct theoretical and experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Weigang Lu , Yibing Zhan , Binbin Lin , Ziyu Guan , Liu Liu , Baosheng Yu , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang , Dacheng Tao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) work remarkably well in semi-supervised node regression, yet a rigorous theory explaining when and why they succeed remains lacking. To address this gap, we study an aggregate-and-readout model that encompasses…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) hold the promise of learning efficient representations of graph-structured data, and one of its most important applications is semi-supervised node classification. However, in this application, GNN frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jiaqi Sun , Lin Zhang , Shenglin Zhao , Yujiu Yang

Scalability of graph neural networks remains one of the major challenges in graph machine learning. Since the representation of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming representation vectors of its neighboring nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zengfeng Huang , Shengzhong Zhang , Chong Xi , Tang Liu , Min Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the state-of-the-art method for many applications on graph structured data. GNNs are a model for graph representation learning, which aims at learning to generate low dimensional node embeddings that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Davide Buffelli , Fabio Vandin

A common issue in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is known as over-smoothing. By increasing the number of iterations within the message-passing of GNNs, the nodes' representations of the input graph align with each other and become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Christian M. M. Frey , Yunpu Ma , Matthias Schubert

Deep learning methods for graphs achieve remarkable performance on many node-level and graph-level prediction tasks. However, despite the proliferation of the methods and their success, prevailing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) neglect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Emily Alsentzer , Samuel G. Finlayson , Michelle M. Li , Marinka Zitnik

Deep Graph Neural Networks struggle with oversmoothing. This paper introduces a novel, physics-inspired GNN model designed to mitigate this issue. Our approach integrates with existing GNN architectures, introducing an entropy-aware message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Philipp Nazari , Oliver Lemke , Davide Guidobene , Artiom Gesp

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown to be powerful tools for graph analytics. The key idea is to recursively propagate and aggregate information along edges of the given graph. Despite their success, however, the existing GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Bo Zong , Jingchao Ni , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang