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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are important tools for transductive learning tasks, such as node classification in graphs, due to their expressive power in capturing complex interdependency between nodes. To enable graph neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Man Wu , Shirui Pan , Lan Du , Xingquan Zhu

It has been observed that message-passing graph neural networks (GNN) sometimes struggle to maintain a healthy balance between the efficient/scalable modeling of long-range dependencies across nodes while avoiding unintended consequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yongyi Yang , Tang Liu , Yangkun Wang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models for learning representations on graphs, most state-of-the-art models do not have significant accuracy gain beyond two to three layers. Deep GNNs fundamentally need to address: 1).…

Graph Neural Networks have emerged as a useful tool to learn on the data by applying additional constraints based on the graph structure. These graphs are often created with assumed intrinsic relations between the entities. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-18 Sunil Kumar Maurya , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have limited expressive power, failing to represent many graph classes correctly. While more expressive graph representation learning (GRL) alternatives can distinguish some of these classes, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Leonardo Cotta , Christopher Morris , Bruno Ribeiro

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are a common type of Graph Neural Network (GNN), in which each node's representation is computed recursively by aggregating representations (messages) from its immediate neighbors akin to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Lingxiao Zhao , Wei Jin , Leman Akoglu , Neil Shah

The expressive power of message passing neural networks (MPNNs) is known to match the expressive power of the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman graph (1-WL) isomorphism test. To boost the expressive power of MPNNs, a number of graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Floris Geerts

A wide range of models have been proposed for Graph Generative Models, necessitating effective methods to evaluate their quality. So far, most techniques use either traditional metrics based on subgraph counting, or the representations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-14 Hamed Shirzad , Kaveh Hassani , Danica J. Sutherland

The expressive power of graph neural network formalisms is commonly measured by their ability to distinguish graphs. For many formalisms, the k-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (k-WL) graph isomorphism test is used as a yardstick. In this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Floris Geerts

We study the approximation power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on latent position random graphs. In the large graph limit, GNNs are known to converge to certain "continuous" models known as c-GNNs, which directly enables a study of their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-01 Nicolas Keriven , Alberto Bietti , Samuel Vaiter

Graph learning architectures based on the k-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (k-WL) hierarchy offer a theoretically well-understood expressive power. However, such architectures often fail to deliver solid predictive performance on real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Luis Müller , Daniel Kusuma , Blai Bonet , Christopher Morris

An effective aggregation of node features into a graph-level representation via readout functions is an essential step in numerous learning tasks involving graph neural networks. Typically, readouts are simple and non-adaptive functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 David Buterez , Jon Paul Janet , Steven J. Kiddle , Dino Oglic , Pietro Liò

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, but this often requires increasingly larger model sizes, which in turn leads to more complex internal representations. Explainability techniques (XAI) have made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tom Pelletreau-Duris , Ruud van Bakel , Michael Cochez

Several popular graph embedding techniques for representation learning and dimensionality reduction rely on performing computationally expensive eigendecompositions to derive a nonlinear transformation of the input data space. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-15 Aren Jansen , Gregory Sell , Vince Lyzinski

We present a new angle on the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) by studying how the predictions of real-valued GNN classifiers, such as those classifying graphs probabilistically, evolve as we apply them on larger graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Sam Adam-Day , Michael Benedikt , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Ben Finkelshtein

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular class of machine learning models whose major advantage is their ability to incorporate a sparse and discrete dependency structure between data points. Unfortunately, GNNs can only be used when such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Luca Franceschi , Mathias Niepert , Massimiliano Pontil , Xiao He

Identifying similar network structures is key to capture graph isomorphisms and learn representations that exploit structural information encoded in graph data. This work shows that ego-networks can produce a structural encoding scheme for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Nurudin Alvarez-Gonzalez , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicenç Gómez

Graph neural networks (GNN) are deep learning architectures for graphs. Essentially, a GNN is a distributed message passing algorithm, which is controlled by parameters learned from data. It operates on the vertices of a graph: in each…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Martin Grohe , Eran Rosenbluth

We present results concerning the expressiveness and decidability of a popular graph learning formalism, graph neural networks (GNNs), exploiting connections with logic. We use a family of recently-discovered decidable logics involving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Michael Benedikt , Chia-Hsuan Lu , Tony Tan

Recently a variety of methods have been developed to encode graphs into low-dimensional vectors that can be easily exploited by machine learning algorithms. The majority of these methods start by embedding the graph nodes into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa