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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for graph classification and representation learning. However, GNNs tend to suffer from over-smoothing problems and are vulnerable to graph perturbations. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yuzhou Chen , Baris Coskunuzer , Yulia R. Gel

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for processing graph-structured data. However, conventional GNNs and their variants are inherently limited by the homophily assumption, leading to degradation in performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jiaqi Lv , Qingfeng Du , Yu Zhang , Yongqi Han , Sheng Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate outstanding performance in a broad range of applications. While the majority of GNN applications assume that a graph structure is given, some recent methods substantially expanded the applicability…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success on multiple graph-based learning tasks by fusing network structure and node features. Modern GNN models are built upon iterative aggregation of neighbor's/proximity features by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Susheel Suresh , Vinith Budde , Jennifer Neville , Pan Li , Jianzhu Ma

Graphs are ubiquitous in nature and can therefore serve as models for many practical but also theoretical problems. For this purpose, they can be defined as many different types which suitably reflect the individual contexts of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Josephine M. Thomas , Alice Moallemy-Oureh , Silvia Beddar-Wiesing , Clara Holzhüter

Graph Neural Nets (GNNs) have received increasing attentions, partially due to their superior performance in many node and graph classification tasks. However, there is a lack of understanding on what they are learning and how sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ting Chen , Song Bian , Yizhou Sun

Despite the tremendous success of graph-based learning systems in handling structural data, it has been widely investigated that they are fragile to adversarial attacks on homophilic graph data, where adversaries maliciously modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yulin Zhu , Yuni Lai , Xing Ai , Wai Lun LO , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Di Tang , Xingxing Zhang , Mengpei Yang , Kai Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the leading approach for addressing graph analytical problems in various real-world scenarios. However, GNNs may produce biased predictions against certain demographic subgroups due to node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yonas Sium , Qi Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend basic Neural Networks (NNs) by additionally making use of graph structure based on the relational inductive bias (edge bias), rather than treating the nodes as collections of independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sitao Luan , Chenqing Hua , Qincheng Lu , Jiaqi Zhu , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown advantages in graph-based analysis tasks. However, most existing methods have the homogeneity assumption and show poor performance on heterophilic graphs, where the linked nodes have dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tianhao Peng , Wenjun Wu , Haitao Yuan , Zhifeng Bao , Zhao Pengrui , Xin Yu , Xuetao Lin , Yu Liang , Yanjun Pu

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have powerful capability to embed rich structural and semantic information of a heterogeneous graph into node representations. Existing HGNNs inherit many mechanisms from graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Xiaocheng Yang , Mingyu Yan , Shirui Pan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used for representation learning on graph data. However, there is limited understanding on how much performance GNNs actually gain from graph data. This paper introduces a context-surrounding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yifan Hou , Jian Zhang , James Cheng , Kaili Ma , Richard T. B. Ma , Hongzhi Chen , Ming-Chang Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) struggle to balance heterophily and homophily in representation learning, a challenge further amplified in self-supervised settings. We propose H$^3$GNNs, an end-to-end self-supervised learning framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Rui Xue , Tianfu Wu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide state-of-the-art results in a wide variety of tasks which typically involve predicting features at the vertices of a graph. They are built from layers of graph convolutions which serve as a powerful…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-08 Mauricio Velasco , Kaiying O'Hare , Bernardo Rychtenberg , Soledad Villar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance in learning representations from graph-structured data. However, their message-passing mechanism inherently relies on the assumption of label consistency among connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Taihua Xu , Genhao Tian , Jicong Fan , Xibei Yang , Qinghua Zhang , Yun Cui

Many widely used datasets for graph machine learning tasks have generally been homophilous, where nodes with similar labels connect to each other. Recently, new Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been developed that move beyond the homophily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Derek Lim , Felix Hohne , Xiuyu Li , Sijia Linda Huang , Vaishnavi Gupta , Omkar Bhalerao , Ser-Nam Lim

Graph-based anomaly detection is currently an important research topic in the field of graph neural networks (GNNs). We find that in graph anomaly detection, the homophily distribution differences between different classes are significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Rui Zhang , Dawei Cheng , Xin Liu , Jie Yang , Yi Ouyang , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the predominant approach for graph-based machine learning. While neural networks have shown great performance at learning useful representations, they are often criticized for their limited high-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Markus Zopf , Francesco Alesiani

Despite remarkable success in diverse web-based applications, Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) inherit and further exacerbate historical discrimination and social stereotypes, which critically hinder their deployments in high-stake domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy