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In this paper we cast neural networks defined on graphs as message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) in order to study the distinguishing power of different classes of such models. We are interested in whether certain architectures are able…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Floris Geerts , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez

Numerous recent works have analyzed the expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs), primarily utilizing combinatorial techniques such as the $1$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman test ($1$-WL) for the graph isomorphism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jan Böker , Ron Levie , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar , Christopher Morris

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

The most popular design paradigm for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is 1-hop message passing -- aggregating information from 1-hop neighbors repeatedly. However, the expressive power of 1-hop message passing is bounded by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Jiarui Feng , Yixin Chen , Fuhai Li , Anindya Sarkar , Muhan Zhang

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have become a dominant flavor of graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. Yet, MPNNs come with notable limitations; namely, they are at most as powerful as the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Lingxiao Zhao , Louis Härtel , Neil Shah , Leman Akoglu

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are effective models for representation learning on relational data. However, standard GNNs are limited in their expressive power, as they cannot distinguish graphs beyond the capability of the Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ralph Abboud , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Martin Grohe , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Recently, subgraphs-enhanced Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) have been introduced to enhance the expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which was proved to be not higher than the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman isomorphism test. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Michele Guerra , Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Despite the remarkable success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), the common belief is that their representation power is limited and that they are at most as expressive as the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) algorithm. In this paper, we argue the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Alejandro Ribeiro

Designing expressive Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a central topic in learning graph-structured data. While numerous approaches have been proposed to improve GNNs in terms of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test, generally there is still a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Bohang Zhang , Shengjie Luo , Liwei Wang , Di He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are learning models aimed at processing graphs and signals on graphs. The most popular and successful GNNs are based on message passing schemes. Such schemes inherently have limited expressive power when it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jacob Bamberger

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) learn the representation of graph-structured data based on graph original information, including node features and graph structures, and have shown astonishing improvement in node classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Xiao Liu , Lijun Zhang , Hui Guan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are known to match the distinguishing power of the 1-Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) test, and the resulting partitions coincide with the unfolding tree equivalence classes of graphs. Preserving this equivalence, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Silvia Beddar-Wiesing , Alice Moallemy-Oureh

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged recently as a powerful architecture for learning node and graph representations. Standard GNNs have the same expressive power as the Weisfeiler-Leman test of graph isomorphism in terms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Giannis Nikolentzos , George Dasoulas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard approach for learning and reasoning over relational data, leveraging the message-passing mechanism that iteratively propagates node embeddings through graph structures. While GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Wei Wang , Jiahao Zhang

Recent work shows that the expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in distinguishing non-isomorphic graphs is exactly the same as that of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph test. In particular, they show that the WL test can be…

Subgraph isomorphism counting is an important problem on graphs, as many graph-based tasks exploit recurring subgraph patterns. Classical methods usually boil down to a backtracking framework that needs to navigate a huge search space with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xingtong Yu , Zemin Liu , Yuan Fang , Xinming Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are effective tools for graph representation learning. Most GNNs rely on a recursive neighborhood aggregation scheme, named message passing, thereby their theoretical expressive power is limited to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dingmin Wang , Shengchao Liu , Hanchen Wang , Bernardo Cuenca Grau , Linfeng Song , Jian Tang , Song Le , Qi Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success as a framework for deep learning on graph-structured data. However, GNNs are fundamentally limited by their tree-structured inductive bias: the WL-subtree kernel formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Dylan Sandfelder , Priyesh Vijayan , William L. Hamilton