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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are attracting growing attention due to their effectiveness and flexibility in modeling a variety of graph-structured data. Exiting GNN architectures usually adopt simple pooling operations (eg. sum, average,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Chenqing Hua , Guillaume Rabusseau , Jian Tang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are prominent for their effectiveness in processing graph data for semi-supervised node classification tasks. Most works of GNNs assume that the observed structure accurately represents the underlying node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Shuangjie Li , Jiangqing Song , Baoming Zhang , Gaoli Ruan , Junyuan Xie , Chongjun Wang

In this work, we propose Attentive Pooling (AP), a two-way attention mechanism for discriminative model training. In the context of pair-wise ranking or classification with neural networks, AP enables the pooling layer to be aware of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Cicero dos Santos , Ming Tan , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Deep learning methods for graphs have seen rapid progress in recent years with much focus awarded to generalising Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to graph data. CNNs are typically realised by alternating convolutional and pooling layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yaniv Shulman

Graph neural networks have emerged as a powerful model for graph representation learning to undertake graph-level prediction tasks. Various graph pooling methods have been developed to coarsen an input graph into a succinct graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Xiaowei Zhou , Jie Yin , Ivor W. Tsang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) work well when the graph structure is provided. However, this structure may not always be available in real-world applications. One solution to this problem is to infer a task-specific latent structure and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Bahare Fatemi , Layla El Asri , Seyed Mehran Kazemi

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) are generalizations of CNNs to graph-structured data, in which convolution is guided by the graph topology. In many cases where graphs are unavailable, existing methods manually construct graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

We propose a theoretical framework that generalizes simple and fast algorithms for hierarchical agglomerative clustering to weighted graphs with both attractive and repulsive interactions between the nodes. This framework defines GASP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Alberto Bailoni , Constantin Pape , Nathan Hütsch , Steffen Wolf , Thorsten Beier , Anna Kreshuk , Fred A. Hamprecht

Global Average Pooling (GAP) is used by default on the channel-wise attention mechanism to extract channel descriptors. However, the simple global aggregation method of GAP is easy to make the channel descriptors have homogeneity, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Mingnan Luo , Guihua Wen , Yang Hu , Dan Dai , Yingxue Xu

Following the success of convolution on non-Euclidean space, the corresponding pooling approaches have also been validated on various tasks regarding graphs. However, because of the fixed compression quota and stepwise pooling design, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Junran Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Ke Xu , Shangzhe Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning over graph-structured data, yet recent studies have shown that their performance gains are beginning to plateau. In many cases, well-established models such as GCN and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mohit Meena , Yash Punjabi , Abhishek A , Vishal Sharma , Mahesh Chandran

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance across diverse graph-based tasks by leveraging message passing to capture complex node relationships. However, on large-scale real-world graphs, GNNs face two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Haobing Liu , Yuan Cao , Guoqing Chao , Zhongying Zhao , Junyu Dong , Xinwang Liu , Yanwei Yu

Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to learn low-dimensional node embeddings without supervision while preserving graph topological structures and node attributive features. Previous graph neural networks (GNN) require a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various domains such as social networks, molecular chemistry, and more. A crucial component of GNNs is the pooling procedure, in which the node features calculated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yaniv Galron , Hadar Sinai , Haggai Maron , Moshe Eliasof

Transfer learning aims to enhance performance on a target task by using knowledge from related tasks. However, when the source and target tasks are not closely aligned, it can lead to reduced performance, known as negative transfer. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zehong Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Recent years have witnessed the emergence and development of graph neural networks (GNNs), which have been shown as a powerful approach for graph representation learning in many tasks, such as node classification and graph classification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Haoteng Tang , Guixiang Ma , Yurong Chen , Lei Guo , Wei Wang , Bo Zeng , Liang Zhan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel on homophilic graphs where connected nodes share labels, but struggle with heterophilic graphs where edges do not imply similarity. Moreover, iterative message passing limits scalability due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Turja Kundu , Sanjukta Bhowmick

Many real-world graphs (networks) are heterogeneous with different types of nodes and edges. Heterogeneous graph embedding, aiming at learning the low-dimensional node representations of a heterogeneous graph, is vital for various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Wentao Xu , Yingce Xia , Weiqing Liu , Jiang Bian , Jian Yin , Tie-Yan Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved strong performance across a range of graph representation learning tasks, yet their adversarial robustness in graph classification remains underexplored compared to node classification. While most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofiane Ennadir , Oleg Smirnov , Yassine Abbahaddou , Lele Cao , Johannes F. Lutzeyer

Downsampling produces coarsened, multi-resolution representations of data and it is used, for example, to produce lossy compression and visualization of large images, reduce computational costs, and boost deep neural representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Davide Bacciu , Alessio Conte , Francesco Landolfi