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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…

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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) and their variants have achieved great success in dealing with graph-structured data. Nevertheless, it is well known that deep GCNs suffer from the over-smoothing problem, where node representations tend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Wei Huang , Yayong Li , Weitao Du , Jie Yin , Richard Yi Da Xu , Ling Chen , Miao Zhang

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in many graph mining tasks. However, scaling them to large graphs is challenging due to the high computational and storage costs of repeated feature propagation…

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End-to-end training of graph neural networks (GNN) on large graphs presents several memory and computational challenges, and limits the application to shallow architectures as depth exponentially increases the memory and space complexities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Oscar Pina , Verónica Vilaplana

Graph pre-training strategies have been attracting a surge of attention in the graph mining community, due to their flexibility in parameterizing graph neural networks (GNNs) without any label information. The key idea lies in encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dawei Zhou , Lecheng Zheng , Dongqi Fu , Jiawei Han , Jingrui He

Graph convolutional networks have been successfully applied in various graph-based tasks. In a typical graph convolutional layer, node features are updated by aggregating neighborhood information. Repeatedly applying graph convolutions can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Haimin Zhang , Min Xu , Guoqiang Zhang , Kenta Niwa

Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been successfully applied to representation learning on graphs in a variety of real-world applications. However, two fundamental weaknesses of MPNNs' aggregators limit their ability to represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Hongbin Pei , Bingzhe Wei , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Yu Lei , Bo Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) typically operate by message-passing, where the state of a node is updated based on the information received from its neighbours. Most message-passing models act as graph convolutions, where features are mixed…

Graph Neural Networks are powerful models for learning from graph-structured data, yet their effectiveness is often limited by two critical challenges: over-squashing, where information from distant nodes is excessively compressed, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hugo Attali , Nathalie Pernelle , Davide Buscaldi , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Graph Neural Networks are powerful models for learning from graph-structured data, yet their effectiveness is often limited by two critical challenges: over-squashing, where information from distant nodes is excessively compressed, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hugo Attali , Davide Buscaldi , Nathalie Pernelle , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are powerful deep neural networks for graph-structured data. However, GCN computes the representation of a node recursively from its neighbors, making the receptive field size grow exponentially with the…

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Graph embedding is an important approach for graph analysis tasks such as node classification and link prediction. The goal of graph embedding is to find a low dimensional representation of graph nodes that preserves the graph information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Mahsa Ghorbani , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Hamid R. Rabiee

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art method for graph-based learning tasks. However, training GCNs at scale is still challenging, hindering both the exploration of more sophisticated GCN architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Cheng Wan , Youjie Li , Ang Li , Nam Sung Kim , Yingyan Lin

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) are shown to be successful in modeling applications with graph structures. However, training an accurate GNN model requires a large collection of labeled data and expressive features, which might be inaccessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ziniu Hu , Changjun Fan , Ting Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun

Modern neural networks have shown promise for solving partial differential equations over surfaces, often by discretizing the surface as a mesh and learning with a mesh-aware graph neural network. However, graph neural networks suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Edward Berman , Luisa Li , Jung Yeon Park , Robin Walters

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown impressive performance in computer vision tasks such as image classification, detection, and segmentation. Moreover, recent work in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has highlighted the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg , Hugo Larochelle

Oversmoothing in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) poses a significant challenge as network depth increases, leading to homogenized node representations and a loss of expressiveness. In this work, we approach the oversmoothing problem from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Harshit Kumar , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have received much attention recently, owing to their capability in handling graph-structured data. Among the existing GCNNs, many methods can be viewed as instances of a neural message passing…

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