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Traffic forecasting is a key task in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Recent research on traffic forecasting has mainly focused on combining graph neural networks (GNNs) with other models. However, GNNs only consider…

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Graphs have become a central representation in machine learning for capturing relational and structured data across various domains. Traditional graph neural networks often struggle to capture long-range dependencies between nodes due to…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in representation learning on graphs and achieved state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as node classification and link prediction. However, most existing GNNs are designed to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Seongjun Yun , Minbyul Jeong , Raehyun Kim , Jaewoo Kang , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Relative Positional Encoding (RPE), which encodes the relative distance between any pair of tokens, is one of the most successful modifications to the original Transformer. As far as we know, theoretical understanding of the RPE-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shengjie Luo , Shanda Li , Shuxin Zheng , Tie-Yan Liu , Liwei Wang , Di He

The emerging graph Transformers have achieved impressive performance for graph representation learning over graph neural networks (GNNs). In this work, we regard the self-attention mechanism, the core module of graph Transformers, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinsong Chen , Gaichao Li , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

We study the extent to which rotary position encodings (RoPE), a recent transformer position encoding algorithm broadly adopted in large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers (ViTs), can be applied to graph-structured data. We find…

Graph Transformers excel in long-range dependency modeling, but generally require quadratic memory complexity in the number of nodes in an input graph, and hence have trouble scaling to large graphs. Sparse attention variants such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hamed Shirzad , Honghao Lin , Balaji Venkatachalam , Ameya Velingker , David Woodruff , Danica Sutherland

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years and have achieved excellent performance in semi-supervised node classification tasks. The success of most GNNs relies on one fundamental assumption, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Junchao Lin , Yuan Wan , Jingwen Xu , Xingchen Qi

Transformers have attained outstanding performance across various modalities, owing to their simple but powerful scaled-dot-product (SDP) attention mechanisms. Researchers have attempted to migrate Transformers to graph learning, but most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Liheng Ma , Soumyasundar Pal , Yingxue Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Mark Coates

Graphs are the natural data structure to represent relational and structural information in many domains. To cover the broad range of graph-data applications including graph classification as well as graph generation, it is desirable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Sanghyun Yoo , Young-Seok Kim , Kang Hyun Lee , Kuhwan Jeong , Junhwi Choi , Hoshik Lee , Young Sang Choi

Graph Transformers have emerged as a powerful alternative to Message-Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs) to address limitations such as over-squashing of information exchange. However, incorporating graph inductive bias into transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zihan Pengmei , Zimu Li

In the field of deep learning, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformer models, with their outstanding performance and flexible architectural designs, have become leading technologies for processing structured data, especially…

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Skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize human actions given human joint coordinates with skeletal interconnections. By defining a graph with joints as vertices and their natural connections as edges, previous works successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yuxuan Zhou , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Chao Li , Yanwen Fang , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie , Margret Keuper

Attention mechanisms have made significant strides in graph learning, yet they still exhibit notable limitations: local attention faces challenges in capturing long-range information due to the inherent problems of the message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siyuan Huang , Yunchong Song , Jiayue Zhou , Zhouhan Lin

Session-based recommendation systems suggest relevant items to users by modeling user behavior and preferences using short-term anonymous sessions. Existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that propagate and aggregate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Sai Mitheran , Abhinav Java , Surya Kant Sahu , Arshad Shaikh

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have brought revolutionary advancements to the field of link prediction (LP), providing powerful tools for mining potential relationships in graphs. However, existing methods face challenges when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Huashen Lu , Wensheng Gan , Guoting Chen , Zhichao Huang , Philip S. Yu

Recently popularized graph neural networks achieve the state-of-the-art accuracy on a number of standard benchmark datasets for graph-based semi-supervised learning, improving significantly over existing approaches. These architectures…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-13 Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Chong Wang , Sewoong Oh , Li-Jia Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) largely rely on the message-passing paradigm, where nodes iteratively aggregate information from their neighbors. Yet, standard message passing neural networks (MPNNs) face well-documented theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Juan Amboage , Ernst Röell , Patrick Schnider , Bastian Rieck

Graph Transformers (GTs) have significantly advanced the field of graph representation learning by overcoming the limitations of message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs) and demonstrating promising performance and expressive power.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Wenhao Zhu , Guojie Song , Liang Wang , Shaoguo Liu

We propose a novel positional encoding for learning graph on Transformer architecture. Existing approaches either linearize a graph to encode absolute position in the sequence of nodes, or encode relative position with another node using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wonpyo Park , Woonggi Chang , Donggeon Lee , Juntae Kim , Seung-won Hwang