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The goal of this paper is to introduce pooling strategies for simplicial convolutional neural networks. Inspired by graph pooling methods, we introduce a general formulation for a simplicial pooling layer that performs: i) local aggregation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Domenico Mattia Cinque , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Graph pooling compresses graph information into a compact representation. State-of-the-art graph pooling methods follow a hierarchical approach, which reduces the graph size step-by-step. These methods must balance memory efficiency with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yunchong Song , Siyuan Huang , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou , Zhouhan Lin

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures utilize downsampling layers, which restrict the subsequent layers to learn spatially invariant features while reducing computational costs. However, such a downsampling operation makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Akito Takeki , Daiki Ikami , Go Irie , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Advanced methods of applying deep learning to structured data such as graphs have been proposed in recent years. In particular, studies have focused on generalizing convolutional neural networks to graph data, which includes redefining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Junhyun Lee , Inyeop Lee , Jaewoo Kang

Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have recently become a powerful technique for many graph-related tasks including graph classification. Current GNN models apply different graph pooling methods that reduce the number of nodes and edges to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Max Khanov , Esra Akbas

Feature pooling layers (e.g., max pooling) in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) serve the dual purpose of providing increasingly abstract representations as well as yielding computational savings in subsequent convolutional layers. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shuangfei Zhai , Hui Wu , Abhishek Kumar , Yu Cheng , Yongxi Lu , Zhongfei Zhang , Rogerio Feris

Graph pooling is commonly applied in graph classification, yet its empirical gains over standard WL-1 expressive GNNs are often marginal or inconsistent. We study this gap by analysing the interaction between node features and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jan von Pichowski , Alžbeta Hrabošová , Ingo Scholtes , Christopher Blöcker

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being applied to an increasing number of problems and fields due to their superior performance in classification and regression tasks. Since two of the key operations that CNNs implement are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fernando Gama , Geert Leus , Antonio G. Marques , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown to be effective in handling unordered data like point clouds and meshes. In this work we propose novel approaches for graph convolution, pooling and unpooling, inspired from finite differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Moshe Eliasof , Eran Treister

Hierarchical Pooling Models have demonstrated strong performance in classifying graph-structured data. While numerous innovative methods have been proposed to design cluster assignments and coarsening strategies, the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Michael Yang

Graph Neural Networks achieve state-of-the-art performance on a plethora of graph classification tasks, especially due to pooling operators, which aggregate learned node embeddings hierarchically into a final graph representation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Alexandre Duval , Fragkiskos Malliaros

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have revolutionized the field of machine learning on non-Euclidean data such as graphs and networks. GNNs effectively implement node representation learning through neighborhood aggregation and achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zehao Dong , Muhan Zhang , Yixin Chen

Graph-level representation learning is the pivotal step for downstream tasks that operate on the whole graph. The most common approach to this problem heretofore is graph pooling, where node features are typically averaged or summed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kaixuan Chen , Jie Song , Shunyu Liu , Na Yu , Zunlei Feng , Gengshi Han , Mingli Song

Convolutional graph networks are used in particle physics for effective event reconstructions and classifications. However, their performances can be limited by the considerable amount of sensors used in modern particle detectors if applied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-10 M. Bachlechner , T. Birkenfeld , P. Soldin , A. Stahl , C. Wiebusch

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for graph classification. One important operation for GNNs is the downsampling or pooling that can learn effective embeddings from the node representations. In this paper, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zhehan Zhao , Lu Bai , Lixin Cui , Ming Li , Yue Wang , Lixiang Xu , Edwin R. Hancock

Graph neural networks have emerged as a powerful model for graph representation learning to undertake graph-level prediction tasks. Various graph pooling methods have been developed to coarsen an input graph into a succinct graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Xiaowei Zhou , Jie Yin , Ivor W. Tsang

Deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are useful models for graph classification and graph-based regression tasks. In these tasks, graph pooling is a critical ingredient by which GNNs adapt to input graphs of varying size and structure. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yu Guang Wang , Ming Li , Zheng Ma , Guido Montufar , Xiaosheng Zhuang , Yanan Fan

Graph pooling is a crucial operation for encoding hierarchical structures within graphs. Most existing graph pooling approaches formulate the problem as a node clustering task which effectively captures the graph topology. Conventional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sung Moon Ko , Sungjun Cho , Dae-Woong Jeong , Sehui Han , Moontae Lee , Honglak Lee

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been demonstrated to be effective in classifying graph structures. To further improve the graph representation learning ability, hierarchical GNN has been explored. It leverages the differentiable pooling to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Kaixiong Zhou , Qingquan Song , Xiao Huang , Daochen Zha , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been used effectively in different applications involving the processing of signals on irregular structures modeled by graphs. Relying on the use of shift-invariant graph filters, GNNs extend the operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Alejandro Parada-Mayorga , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro