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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely demonstrated their powerful ability in graph data representation and learning. Existing graph convolution layers are mainly designed based on graph signal processing and transform aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ziyan Zhang , Bo Jiang , Bin Luo

Current GNN architectures use a vertex neighborhood aggregation scheme, which limits their discriminative power to that of the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test. Here, we propose a novel graph convolution operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Clemens Damke , Vitalik Melnikov , Eyke Hüllermeier

Graphs are a powerful data structure for representing relational data and are widely used to describe complex real-world systems. Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can both leverage graph-structured…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Michela Lapenna , Caterina De Bacco

Explaining graph neural networks (GNNs) has become more and more important recently. Higher-order interpretation schemes, such as GNN-LRP (layer-wise relevance propagation for GNN), emerged as powerful tools for unraveling how different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ping Xiong , Thomas Schnake , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential in high-stakes domains such as drug discovery, yet their black-box nature remains a significant barrier to trustworthiness. While self-explainable GNNs attempt to bridge this gap, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Chuqin Geng , Li Zhang , Haolin Ye , Ziyu Zhao , Yuhe Jiang , Tara Saba , Xinyu Wang , Xujie Si

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a promising deep learning approach for circumventing many real-world problems on graph-structured data. However, these models usually have at least one of four fundamental limitations: over-smoothing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xun Liu , Alex Hay-Man Ng , Fangyuan Lei , Yikuan Zhang , Zhengmin Li

Cross-network node classification (CNNC), which aims to classify nodes in a label-deficient target network by transferring the knowledge from a source network with abundant labels, draws increasing attention recently. To address CNNC, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Xiao Shen , Shirui Pan , Kup-Sze Choi , Xi Zhou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become an indispensable tool for analyzing relational data. Classical GNNs are broadly classified into three variants: convolutional, attentional, and message-passing. While the standard message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Brian Godwin Lim , Galvin Brice Lim , Renzo Roel Tan , Irwin King , Kazushi Ikeda

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based on message passing between neighboring nodes are known to be insufficient for capturing long-range interactions in graphs. In this project we study hierarchical message passing models that leverage a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ladislav Rampášek , Guy Wolf

Most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) operate at the first-order scale, even though multi-scale representations are known to be crucial in domains such as image classification. In this work, we investigate whether GNNs can similarly benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qin Jiang , Chengjia Wang , Michael Lones , Dongdong Chen , Wei Pang

Graph Neural Networks (graph NNs) are a promising deep learning approach for analyzing graph-structured data. However, it is known that they do not improve (or sometimes worsen) their predictive performance as we pile up many layers and add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

We investigate the power of message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) in their capacity to transform the numerical features stored in the nodes of their input graphs. Our focus is on global expressive power, uniformly over all input graphs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Floris Geerts , Jasper Steegmans , Jan Van den Bussche

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used for graph representation learning in many application domains. The expressiveness of vanilla GNNs is upper-bounded by 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) test as they operate on rooted subtrees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jiaxing Xu , Aihu Zhang , Qingtian Bian , Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Yiping Ke

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPGNNs) dominate modern graph learning. Typical efforts enhance MPGNN's expressive power by enriching the adjacency-based aggregation. In contrast, we introduce an efficient aggregation over walk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Marek Černý

We study and compare different Graph Neural Network extensions that increase the expressive power of GNNs beyond the Weisfeiler-Leman test. We focus on (i) GNNs based on higher order WL methods, (ii) GNNs that preprocess small substructures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Pál András Papp , Roger Wattenhofer

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which propagate the node features through the edges and learn how to transform the aggregated features under label supervision, have achieved great success in supervised feature extraction for both node-level…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-01 Yilin He , Chaojie Wang , Hao Zhang , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a family of neural network models that perform inference on graph data by interleaving vertex-wise operations and message-passing exchanges across nodes. Concerning the latter, two key questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

It has been shown that a message passing neural networks (MPNNs), a popular family of neural networks for graph-structured data, are at most as expressive as the first-order Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) graph isomorphism test, which has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Markus Zopf

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be highly effective in various graph learning tasks. A key characteristic of GNNs is their use of a fixed number of message-passing steps for all nodes in the graph, regardless of each node's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yassine Abbahaddou , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis

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