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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used to learn vector representation of graph-structured data and achieved better task performance than conventional methods. The foundation of GNNs is the message passing procedure, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Takeshi D. Itoh , Takatomi Kubo , Kazushi Ikeda

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

Important advances have been made using convolutional neural network (CNN) approaches to solve complicated problems in areas that rely on grid structured data such as image processing and object classification. Recently, research on graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-24 Matthew Baron

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a workhorse approach for learning from data defined over irregular domains, typically by implicitly assuming that the data structure is represented by a homophilic graph. However, recent works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Samuel Rey , Madeline Navarro , Victor M. Tenorio , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Graph neural networks (GNNs), consisting of a cascade of layers applying a graph convolution followed by a pointwise nonlinearity, have become a powerful architecture to process signals supported on graphs. Graph convolutions (and thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Fernando Gama , Joan Bruna , Alejandro Ribeiro

Pooling is an important component in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for aggregating features and reducing computational burden. Compared with other components such as convolutional layers and fully connected layers which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shuai Li , Wanqing Li , Chris Cook , Ce Zhu , Yanbo Gao

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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a widely used method for graph representation learning. We investigate the power of GCNs, as a function of their number of layers, to distinguish between different random graph models on the basis of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-14 Abram Magner , Mayank Baranwal , Alfred O. Hero

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

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are one of the most popular architectures that are used to solve classification problems accompanied by graphical information. We present a rigorous theoretical understanding of the effects of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Aseem Baranwal , Kimon Fountoulakis , Aukosh Jagannath

Graph neural networks have shown significant success in the field of graph representation learning. Graph convolutions perform neighborhood aggregation and represent one of the most important graph operations. Nevertheless, one layer of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Meng Liu , Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have gained popularity due to high performance achievable on several downstream tasks including node classification. Several architectural variants of these networks have been proposed and investigated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Rahul Ragesh , Sundararajan Sellamanickam , Vijay Lingam , Arun Iyer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the most widely adopted model in graph-structured data oriented learning and representation. Despite their extraordinary success in real-world applications, understanding their working mechanism by theory is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are proposed without considering the agnostic distribution shifts between training and testing graphs, inducing the degeneration of the generalization ability of GNNs on Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) settings. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shaohua Fan , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Peng Cui , Bai Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have significantly improved the representation power for graph-structured data. Despite of the recent success of GNNs, the graph convolution in most GNNs have two limitations. Since the graph convolution is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jinyoung Park , Sungdong Yoo , Jihwan Park , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) model nonlinear representations in graph data with applications in distributed agent coordination, control, and planning among others. Current GNN architectures assume ideal scenarios and ignore link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi , Alejandro Ribeiro

While message passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular architectures for learning with graphs, recent works have revealed important shortcomings in their expressive power. In response, several higher-order GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Derek Lim , Stefanie Jegelka

In view of the huge success of convolution neural networks (CNN) for image classification and object recognition, there have been attempts to generalize the method to general graph-structured data. One major direction is based on spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Feng Ji , Jielong Yang , Qiang Zhang , Wee Peng Tay

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have emerged as powerful models for graph learning tasks, exhibiting promising performance in various domains. While their empirical success is evident, there is a growing need to understand their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guangrui Yang , Ming Li , Han Feng , Xiaosheng Zhuang

Graph convolutional network (GCN) is an emerging neural network approach. It learns new representation of a node by aggregating feature vectors of all neighbors in the aggregation process without considering whether the neighbors or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Li Zhang , Heda Song , Nikolaos Aletras , Haiping Lu