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We present the Graph Forward-Forward (GFF) algorithm, an extension of the Forward-Forward procedure to graphs, able to handle features distributed over a graph's nodes. This allows training graph neural networks with forward passes only,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Daniele Paliotta , Mathieu Alain , Bálint Máté , François Fleuret

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently received significant attention. Learning node-wise message propagation in GNNs aims to set personalized propagation steps for different nodes in the graph. Despite the success, existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yao Cheng , Minjie Chen , Xiang Li , Caihua Shan , Ming Gao

There has been a growing interest in developing diffusion-based Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), building on the connections between message passing mechanisms in GNNs and physical diffusion processes. However, existing methods suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Asela Hevapathige , Asiri Wijesinghe , Ahad N. Zehmakan

Bayesian inference offers a principled account of information processing in natural agents. However, it remains an open question how neural mechanisms perform their abstract operations. We investigate a hypothesis where a distributed form…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Sepideh Adamiat , Wouter M. Kouw , Bert de Vries

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of belief propagation - an algorithm originally introduced for performing statistical inference on graphical models - for approximate, but highly efficient, tensor network contraction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Joseph Tindall , Grace M. Sommers , Hilbert Kappen

Graphs are a powerful data structure to represent relational data and are widely used to describe complex real-world data structures. Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) have been well-developed in the past years to mathematically model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Chenqing Hua , Sitao Luan , Qian Zhang , Jie Fu

Belief Propagation (BP) is a powerful algorithm for distributed inference in probabilistic graphical models, however it quickly becomes infeasible for practical compute and memory budgets. Many efficient, non-parametric forms of BP have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tom Yates , Yuzhou Cheng , Ignacio Alzugaray , Danyal Akarca , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Andrew J. Davison

Trust evaluation is critical for many applications such as cyber security, social communication and recommender systems. Users and trust relationships among them can be seen as a graph. Graph neural networks (GNNs) show their powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Cuiying Huo , Di Jin , Chundong Liang , Dongxiao He , Tie Qiu , Lingfei Wu

Epidemic outcomes have a complex interplay with human behavior and beliefs. Most of the forecasting literature has focused on the task of predicting epidemic signals using simple mechanistic models or black-box models, such as deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mulin Tian , Ajitesh Srivastava

Graphs are ubiquitous in many applications, such as social networks, knowledge graphs, smart grids, etc.. Graph neural networks (GNN) are the current state-of-the-art for these applications, and yet remain obscure to humans. Explaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yazheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie

We study the application of the factor graph framework for symbol detection on linear inter-symbol interference channels. Cyclic factor graphs have the potential to yield low-complexity symbol detectors, but are suboptimal if the ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Luca Schmid , Laurent Schmalen

Belief propagation (BP) is a powerful tool to solve distributed inference problems, though it is limited by short cycles in the corresponding factor graph. Such cycles may lead to incorrect solutions or oscillatory behavior. Only for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Christopher Lindberg , Julien M. Hendrickx , Henk Wymeersch

Many inference tasks on knowledge graphs, including relation prediction, operate on knowledge graph embeddings -- vector representations of the vertices (entities) and edges (relations) that preserve task-relevant structure encoded within…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 John Cobb , Thomas Gebhart

Neural message passing algorithms for semi-supervised classification on graphs have recently achieved great success. However, for classifying a node these methods only consider nodes that are a few propagation steps away and the size of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful representational tool for solving problems on graph-structured inputs. In almost all cases so far, however, they have been applied to directly recovering a final solution from raw inputs, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Petar Veličković , Rex Ying , Matilde Padovano , Raia Hadsell , Charles Blundell

Scene graph generation aims to interpret an input image by explicitly modelling the potential objects and their relationships, which is predominantly solved by the message passing neural network models in previous methods. Currently, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Daqi Liu , Miroslaw Bober , Josef Kittler

Effectively compressing and optimizing tensor networks requires reliable methods for fixing the latent degrees of freedom of the tensors, known as the gauge. Here we introduce a new algorithm for gauging tensor networks using belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Joseph Tindall , Matthew T. Fishman

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a flexible and powerful approach for learning over graphs. Despite this success, existing GNNs are constrained by their local message-passing architecture and are provably limited in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Rajat Talak , Siyi Hu , Lisa Peng , Luca Carlone

Belief Propagation algorithms acting on Graphical Models of classical probability distributions, such as Markov Networks, Factor Graphs and Bayesian Networks, are amongst the most powerful known methods for deriving probabilistic inferences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew Leifer , David Poulin

Time series forecasting is an extensively studied subject in statistics, economics, and computer science. Exploration of the correlation and causation among the variables in a multivariate time series shows promise in enhancing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Chao Shang , Jie Chen , Jinbo Bi