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Graph isomorphism testing is usually approached via the comparison of graph invariants. Two popular alternatives that offer a good trade-off between expressive power and computational efficiency are combinatorial (i.e., obtained via the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Or Feldman , Amit Boyarski , Shai Feldman , Dani Kogan , Avi Mendelson , Chaim Baskin

Most state-of-the-art graph kernels only take local graph properties into account, i.e., the kernel is computed with regard to properties of the neighborhood of vertices or other small substructures. On the other hand, kernels that do take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Christopher Morris , Kristian Kersting , Petra Mutzel

The Weisfeiler--Lehman (WL) test is a fundamental iterative algorithm for checking isomorphism of graphs. It has also been observed that it underlies the design of several graph neural network architectures, whose capabilities and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Valentino Delle Rose , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Cristóbal Rojas , Mircea Petrache , Pablo Barceló

Since the Message Passing (Graph) Neural Networks (MPNNs) have a linear complexity with respect to the number of nodes when applied to sparse graphs, they have been widely implemented and still raise a lot of interest even though their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Muhammet Balcilar , Pierre Héroux , Benoit Gaüzère , Pascal Vasseur , Sébastien Adam , Paul Honeine

A graph neural network (GNN) is a good choice for predicting the chemical properties of molecules. Compared with other deep networks, however, the current performance of a GNN is limited owing to the "curse of depth." Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Kenta Oono , Kohei Hayashi

The Weisfeiler--Lehman (WL) test and its simplicial extension (SWL) characterize the combinatorial expressivity of message passing networks, but they are blind to geometry, i.e., meshes with identical connectivity but different embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Elena Xinyi Wang , Bastian Rieck

The Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test is a classical procedure for graph isomorphism testing. The WL test has also been widely used both for designing graph kernels and for analyzing graph neural networks. In this paper, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Samantha Chen , Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Mémoli , Zhengchao Wan , Yusu Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), despite achieving remarkable performance across different tasks, are theoretically bounded by the 1-Weisfeiler-Lehman test, resulting in limitations in terms of graph expressivity. Even though prior works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Quang Truong , Peter Chin

Knowledge graphs, modeling multi-relational data, improve numerous applications such as question answering or graph logical reasoning. Many graph neural networks for such data emerged recently, often outperforming shallow architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Pablo Barcelo , Mikhail Galkin , Christopher Morris , Miguel Romero Orth

We provide a criterion to distinguish two graphs which are indistinguishable by $2$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm for almost all graphs. Haemers conjectured that almost all graphs are identified by their spectrum. Our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Wei Wang , Da Zhao

In this paper, we relate a beautiful theory by Lov\'asz with a popular heuristic algorithm for the graph isomorphism problem, namely the color refinement algorithm and its k-dimensional generalization known as the Weisfeiler-Leman…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Holger Dell , Martin Grohe , Gaurav Rattan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently become the standard approach for learning with graph-structured data. Prior work has shed light into their potential, but also their limitations. Unfortunately, it was shown that standard GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Gaspard Michel , Giannis Nikolentzos , Johannes Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have emerged as the most popular framework of graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. However, their expressive power is limited by the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) test. Some works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiarui Feng , Lecheng Kong , Hao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Fuhai Li , Muhan Zhang , Yixin Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for data-driven learning on various graph domains. They are usually based on a message-passing mechanism and have gained increasing popularity for their intuitive formulation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Simone Brugiapaglia , Mirco Ravanelli

Stars' chemical signatures provide invaluable insights into stellar cluster formation. This study utilized the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) Graph Kernel to examine a 15-dimensional elemental abundance space. Through simulating chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-27 Yuan-Sen Ting , Bhavesh Sharma

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are deep learning architectures for machine learning problems on graphs. It has recently been shown that the expressiveness of GNNs can be characterised precisely by the combinatorial Weisfeiler-Leman algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Martin Grohe

As a classical approach on graph learning, the propagation-aggregation methodology is widely exploited by many of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), wherein the representation of a node is updated by aggregating representations from itself and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xiao Yue , Bo Liu , Feng Zhang , Guangzhi Qu

Subgraph representation learning has been effective in solving various real-world problems. However, current graph neural networks (GNNs) produce suboptimal results for subgraph-level tasks due to their inability to capture complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dongkwan Kim , Alice Oh

In recent years, there has been a significant amount of research focused on expanding the expressivity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) beyond the Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) framework. While many of these studies have yielded advancements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shouheng Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

Recently, the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test was used to measure the expressiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs), showing that the neighborhood aggregation GNNs were at most as powerful as 1-WL test in distinguishing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mingqi Yang , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin