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Graph neural networks (GNNs) hold the promise of learning efficient representations of graph-structured data, and one of its most important applications is semi-supervised node classification. However, in this application, GNN frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jiaqi Sun , Lin Zhang , Shenglin Zhao , Yujiu Yang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used in graph-based applications, such as social networks and recommendation systems. Nevertheless, large-scale graphs or deep aggregation layers in full-batch GCNs consume significant GPU…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved success in various inference tasks on graph-structured data. However, common challenges faced by many GNNs in the literature include the problem of graph node embedding under various geometries and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Qiyu Kang , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Sijie Wang , Rui She , Wee Peng Tay

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) is an emerging technique that performs learning and reasoning on graph data. It operates feature learning on the graph structure, through aggregating the features of the neighbor nodes to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

In the graph domain, deep graph networks based on Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) or Graph Transformers often cause over-smoothing of node features, limiting their expressive capacity. Many upsampling techniques involving node and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaotang Wang , Yun Zhu , Haizhou Shi , Yongchao Liu , Yongqi Zhang

We investigate adaptive layer-wise graph convolution in deep GCN models. We propose AdaGPR to learn generalized Pageranks at each layer of a GCNII network to induce adaptive convolution. We show that the generalization bound for AdaGPR is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Kishan Wimalawarne , Taiji Suzuki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have succeeded in various computer science applications, yet deep GNNs underperform their shallow counterparts despite deep learning's success in other domains. Over-smoothing and over-squashing are key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jhony H. Giraldo , Konstantinos Skianis , Thierry Bouwmans , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) hold a key position in machine learning on graphs, but they struggle with unintended behaviors, such as over-smoothing and over-squashing, due to irregular data structures. The observation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Junhyun Lee , Veronika Thost , Bumsoo Kim , Jaewoo Kang , Tengfei Ma

Dynamic graphs arise in a plethora of practical scenarios such as social networks, communication networks, and financial transaction networks. Given a dynamic graph, it is fundamental and essential to learn a graph representation that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Menglin Yang , Ziqiao Meng , Irwin King

We propose a mask pretraining method for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve their performance on fitting potential energy surfaces, particularly in water systems. GNNs are pretrained by recovering spatial information related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zehua Zhang , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

Graph convolution network (GCN) attracts intensive research interest with broad applications. While existing work mainly focused on designing novel GCN architectures for better performance, few of them studied a practical yet challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Xiaoming Liu , Qirui Li , Chao Shen , Xi Peng , Yadong Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants have achieved significant performances on various recommendation tasks. However, many existing GCN models tend to perform recursive aggregations among all related nodes, which can arise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yue Xu , Hao Chen , Zengde Deng , Yuanchen Bei , Feiran Huang

In this paper, we provide an overview of a common phenomenon, condensation, observed during the nonlinear training of neural networks: During the nonlinear training of neural networks, neurons in the same layer tend to condense into groups…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a cornerstone of deep learning, with most existing methods rooted in graph signal processing and diffusion equations to model message passing. However, these approaches inherently suffer from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zexing Zhao , Guangsi Shi , Yu Gong , Tianyu Wang , Shirui Pan , Hongye Cheng , Yuxiao Li

Deep deraining networks consistently encounter substantial generalization issues when deployed in real-world applications, although they are successful in laboratory benchmarks. A prevailing perspective in deep learning encourages using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jinjin Gu , Xianzheng Ma , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Our study reveals new theoretical insights into over-smoothing and feature over-correlation in graph neural networks. Specifically, we demonstrate that with increased depth, node representations become dominated by a low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Andreas Roth , Thomas Liebig

In designing and applying graph neural networks, we often fall into some optimization pitfalls, the most deceptive of which is that we can only build a deep model by solving over-smoothing. The fundamental reason is that we do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xue Li , Yuanzhi Cheng

Self-supervision as an emerging technique has been employed to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for more transferrable, generalizable, and robust representation learning of images. Its introduction to graph convolutional networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

There has been tremendous success in the field of graph neural networks (GNNs) as a result of the development of the message-passing (MP) layer, which updates the representation of a node by combining it with its neighbors to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Hyeokjin Kwon , Jong-Min Lee

Existing graph convolutional networks focus on the neighborhood aggregation scheme. When applied to semi-supervised learning, they often suffer from the overfitting problem as the networks are trained with the cross-entropy loss on a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Qilin Li , Wanquan Liu , Ling Li