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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of real-world applications by relying on the fixed graph data as input. However, the initial input graph might not be optimal in terms of specific downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Beidi Zhao , Boxin Du , Zhe Xu , Liangyue Li , Hanghang Tong

Accurate modelling and quantification of predictive uncertainty is crucial in deep learning since it allows a model to make safer decisions when the data is ambiguous and facilitates the users' understanding of the model's confidence in its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Soumyasundar Pal , Liheng Ma , Amine Natik , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are neural models that leverage the dependency structure in graphical data via message passing among the graph nodes. GNNs have emerged as pivotal architectures in analyzing graph-structured data, and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Wei Cheng , Zhuomin Chen , Haifeng Chen , Hua Wei , Dongsheng Luo

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over recent years. Instance-level GNN explanation aims to discover critical input elements, like nodes or edges, that the target GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Tianxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Luo , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

This paper considers inference over distributed linear Gaussian models using factor graphs and Gaussian belief propagation (BP). The distributed inference algorithm involves only local computation of the information matrix and of the mean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-01 Jian Du , Shaodan Ma , Yik-Chung Wu , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Graphical models use the intuitive and well-studied methods of graph theory to implicitly represent dependencies between variables in large systems. They can model the global behaviour of a complex system by specifying only local factors.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Belief Propagation algorithms are instruments used broadly to solve graphical model optimization and statistical inference problems. In the general case of a loopy Graphical Model, Belief Propagation is a heuristic which is quite successful…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-15 Andrii Riazanov , Yury Maximov , Michael Chertkov

Despite Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved prominent success in many graph-based learning problem, such as credit risk assessment in financial networks and fake news detection in social networks. However, the trained GNNs still make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zirui Liu , Zhimeng Jiang , Shaochen Zhong , Kaixiong Zhou , Li Li , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

We develop a categorical foundation for belief propagation on factor graphs. We construct the free hypergraph category \(\Syn_\Sigma\) on a typed signature and prove its universal property, yielding compositional semantics via a unique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Enrique ter Horst , Sridhar Mahadevan , Juan Diego Zambrano

A major benefit of graphical models is that most knowledge is captured in the model structure. Many models, however, produce inference problems with a lot of symmetries not reflected in the graphical structure and hence not exploitable by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Kristian Kersting , Babak Ahmadi , Sriraam Natarajan

We consider inference (filtering) problems over probabilistic graphical models with aggregate data generated by a large population of individuals. We propose a new efficient belief propagation type algorithm over tree-structured graphs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Rahul Singh , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

This paper proposes to use graph neural networks (GNNs) for equalization, that can also be used to perform joint equalization and decoding (JED). For equalization, the GNN is build upon the factor graph representations of the channel, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jannis Clausius , Marvin Geiselhart , Daniel Tandler , Stephan ten Brink

The popularity of deep learning techniques renewed the interest in neural architectures able to process complex structures that can be represented using graphs, inspired by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). We focus our attention on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Matteo Tiezzi , Giuseppe Marra , Stefano Melacci , Marco Maggini

Leveraging network information for predictive modeling has become widespread in many domains. Within the realm of referral and targeted marketing, influencer detection stands out as an area that could greatly benefit from the incorporation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Elena Tiukhova , Emiliano Penaloza , María Óskarsdóttir , Bart Baesens , Monique Snoeck , Cristián Bravo

Probabilistic graphical models are widely used to model complex systems under uncertainty. Traditionally, Gaussian directed graphical models are applied for analysis of large networks with continuous variables as they can provide…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-27 Victoria Volodina , Nikki Sonenberg , Peter Challenor , Jim Q. Smith

Graph neural network (GNN) is an efficient neural network model for graph data and is widely used in different fields, including wireless communications. Different from other neural network models, GNN can be implemented in a decentralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Mengyuan Lee , Guanding Yu , Huaiyu Dai

We present a novel inference algorithm for arbitrary, binary, undirected graphs. Unlike loopy belief propagation, which iterates fixed point equations, we directly descend on the Bethe free energy. The algorithm consists of two phases,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Max Welling , Yee Whye Teh

Pre-propagation graph neural networks (PPGNNs) decouple node feature propagation from transformation: graph diffusion is performed once as preprocessing, and training reduces to dense per-node transformations. This design enables mini-batch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zichao Yue , Zhiru Zhang

We study the belief propagation algorithm for the graph bi-partitioning problem, i.e. the ground state of the ferromagnetic Ising model at a fixed magnetization. Application of a message passing scheme to a model with a fixed global…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-16 P. Sulc , L. Zdeborova

Fake news on social media is increasingly regarded as one of the most concerning issues. Low cost, simple accessibility via social platforms, and a plethora of low-budget online news sources are some of the factors that contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Fahim Belal Mahmud , Mahi Md. Sadek Rayhan , Mahdi Hasan Shuvo , Islam Sadia , Md. Kishor Morol