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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for a wide range of node-level graph learning tasks. However, their performance typically depends on random or minimally informed initial feature representations, where poor…

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While tokenized graph Transformers have demonstrated strong performance in node classification tasks, their reliance on a limited subset of nodes with high similarity scores for constructing token sequences overlooks valuable information…

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Time, cost, and energy efficiency are critical considerations in Deep-Learning (DL), particularly when processing long texts. Transformers, which represent the current state of the art, exhibit quadratic computational complexity relative to…

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Graph Transformer (GT), as a special type of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), utilizes multi-head attention to facilitate high-order message passing. However, this also imposes several limitations in node classification applications: 1) nodes…

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In this work, we have proposed an approach for improving the GCN for predicting ratings in social networks. Our model is expanded from the standard model with several layers of transformer architecture. The main focus of the paper is on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Thi Linh Hoang , Tuan Dung Pham , Viet Cuong Ta

Pretraining plays a pivotal role in acquiring generalized knowledge from large-scale data, achieving remarkable successes as evidenced by large models in CV and NLP. However, progress in the graph domain remains limited due to fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Song , Haitao Mao , Jiachen Xiao , Jingzhe Liu , Zhikai Chen , Wei Jin , Carl Yang , Jiliang Tang , Hui Liu

We explore the use of graph neural networks (GNNs) to model spatial processes in which there is no a priori graphical structure. Similar to finite element analysis, we assign nodes of a GNN to spatial locations and use a computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Ferran Alet , Adarsh K. Jeewajee , Maria Bauza , Alberto Rodriguez , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been applied to graph learning tasks and achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results. However, many competitive methods run GNNs multiple times with subgraph extraction and customized labeling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lecheng Kong , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Effective node representation lies at the heart of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), as it directly impacts their ability to perform downstream tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Most existing GNNs, particularly message…

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Neural forecasting of spatiotemporal time series drives both research and industrial innovation in several relevant application domains. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are often the core component of the forecasting architecture. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Andrea Cini , Ivan Marisca , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Cesare Alippi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) bring the power of deep representation learning to graph and relational data and achieve state-of-the-art performance in many applications. GNNs compute node representations by taking into account the topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Maria Kalantzi , George Karypis

The complicated syntax structure of natural language is hard to be explicitly modeled by sequence-based models. Graph is a natural structure to describe the complicated relation between tokens. The recent advance in Graph Neural Networks…

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Recent works on representation learning for graph structured data predominantly focus on learning distributed representations of graph substructures such as nodes and subgraphs. However, many graph analytics tasks such as graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Rajasekar Venkatesan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu , Shantanu Jaiswal

Graph transformers are a recent advancement in machine learning, offering a new class of neural network models for graph-structured data. The synergy between transformers and graph learning demonstrates strong performance and versatility…

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Spectral graph neural networks (GNNs) learn graph representations via spectral-domain graph convolutions. However, most existing spectral graph filters are scalar-to-scalar functions, i.e., mapping a single eigenvalue to a single filtered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi , Lele Wang , Renjie Liao

Recent advances in integrating positional and structural encodings (PSEs) into graph neural networks (GNNs) have significantly enhanced their performance across various graph learning tasks. However, the general applicability of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Billy Joe Franks , Moshe Eliasof , Semih Cantürk , Guy Wolf , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Sophie Fellenz , Marius Kloft

Graph neural networks are powerful architectures for structured datasets. However, current methods struggle to represent long-range dependencies. Scaling the depth or width of GNNs is insufficient to broaden receptive fields as larger GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhanghao Wu , Paras Jain , Matthew A. Wright , Azalia Mirhoseini , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Textual graphs (TGs) are graphs whose nodes correspond to text (sentences or documents), which are widely prevalent. The representation learning of TGs involves two stages: (i) unsupervised feature extraction and (ii) supervised graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keyu Duan , Qian Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Shuicheng Yan , Wei Tsang Ooi , Qizhe Xie , Junxian He

Graph structured data, specifically text-attributed graphs (TAG), effectively represent relationships among varied entities. Such graphs are essential for semi-supervised node classification tasks. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Kaiwen Dong , Zhichun Guo , Nitesh V. Chawla

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with numerical node features and graph structure as inputs have demonstrated superior performance on various supervised learning tasks with graph data. However the numerical node features utilized by GNNs are…

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