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Graph Neural Network (GNN) achieves great success for node-level and graph-level tasks via encoding meaningful topological structures of networks in various domains, ranging from social to biological networks. However, repeated aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tanvir Hossain , Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Farhan Tanvir , Esra Akbas

Oversmoothing has been recognized as a main obstacle to building deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), limiting the performance. This position paper argues that the influence of oversmoothing has been overstated and advocates for a further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 MoonJeong Park , Sunghyun Choi , Jaeseung Heo , Eunhyeok Park , Dongwoo Kim

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been shown to be a powerful concept that has been successfully applied to a large variety of tasks across many domains over the past years. In this work we study the theory that paved the way to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Matteo Bunino

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

In this work, we have proposed an approach for improving the GCN for predicting ratings in social networks. Our model is expanded from the standard model with several layers of transformer architecture. The main focus of the paper is on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Thi Linh Hoang , Tuan Dung Pham , Viet Cuong Ta

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as one of the leading approaches for machine learning on graph-structured data. Despite their great success, critical computational challenges such as over-smoothing, over-squashing, and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhiqi Shao , Dai Shi , Andi Han , Yi Guo , Qibin Zhao , Junbin Gao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received tremendous attention due to their power in learning effective representations for graphs. Most GNNs follow a message-passing scheme where the node representations are updated by aggregating and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Wei Jin , Xiaorui Liu , Yao Ma , Tyler Derr , Charu Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

Jumping connections enable Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to overcome over-smoothing, while graph sparsification reduces computational demands by selecting a sub-matrix of the graph adjacency matrix during neighborhood aggregation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiawei Sun , Hongkang Li , Meng Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve impressive performance in a wide variety of fields. Their success benefited from a massive boost when very deep CNN models were able to be reliably trained. Despite their merits, CNNs fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Guohao Li , Matthias Müller , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

Graph neural networks (GNNs) manifest pathologies including over-smoothing and limited discriminating power as a result of suboptimally expressive aggregating mechanisms. We herein present a unifying framework for stochastic aggregation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Yuanqing Wang , Theofanis Karaletsos

Graph convolutional networks learn effective node embeddings that have proven to be useful in achieving high-accuracy prediction results in semi-supervised learning tasks, such as node classification. However, these networks suffer from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mahsa Mesgaran , A. Ben Hamza

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become pivotal tools for processing graph-structured data, leveraging the message passing scheme as their core mechanism. However, traditional GNNs often grapple with issues such as instability,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Yuanhong Jiang , Dongmian Zou , Xiaoqun Zhang , Yu Guang Wang

Graph, as an important data representation, is ubiquitous in many real world applications ranging from social network analysis to biology. How to correctly and effectively learn and extract information from graph is essential for a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaodong Jiang , Ronghang Zhu , Pengsheng Ji , Sheng Li

The information diffusion performance of GCN and its variant models is limited by the adjacency matrix, which can lower their performance. Therefore, we introduce a new framework for graph convolutional networks called Hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Zhi Yang , Kang Li , Haitao Gan , Zhongwei Huang , Ming Shi

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shraban Kumar Chatterjee , Suman Kundu

It has been shown that the effectiveness of graph convolutional network (GCN) for recommendation is attributed to the spectral graph filtering. Most GCN-based methods consist of a graph filter or followed by a low-rank mapping optimized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Shaowen Peng , Xin Liu , Kazunari Sugiyama , Tsunenori Mine

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted much attention because of their excellent performance on tasks such as node classification. However, there is inadequate understanding on how and why GNNs work, especially for node representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Guoji Fu , Yifan Hou , Jian Zhang , Kaili Ma , Barakeel Fanseu Kamhoua , James Cheng

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have achieved great success on graph-structured data. Many graph convolutional networks can be thought of as low-pass filters for graph signals. In this paper, we propose a more powerful graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhixian Chen , Tengfei Ma , Zhihua Jin , Yangqiu Song , Yang Wang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been extensively used to classify vertices in graphs and have been shown to outperform other vertex classification methods. GCNs have been extended to graph classification tasks (GCT). In GCT, graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Omer Nagar , Shoval Frydman , Ori Hochman , Yoram Louzoun

We present our ongoing work on understanding the limitations of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) as well as our work on generalizations of graph convolutions for representing more complex node attribute dependencies. Based on an analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Mathias Niepert , Alberto Garcia-Duran