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How to obtain informative representations of molecules is a crucial prerequisite in AI-driven drug design and discovery. Recent researches abstract molecules as graphs and employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for molecular representation…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-30 Yu Rong , Yatao Bian , Tingyang Xu , Weiyang Xie , Ying Wei , Wenbing Huang , Junzhou Huang

Graph Transformer has demonstrated impressive capabilities in the field of graph representation learning. However, existing approaches face two critical challenges: (1) most models suffer from exponentially increasing computational…

Recently, transformer architectures for graphs emerged as an alternative to established techniques for machine learning with graphs, such as (message-passing) graph neural networks. So far, they have shown promising empirical results, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Luis Müller , Mikhail Galkin , Christopher Morris , Ladislav Rampášek

We propose a recipe on how to build a general, powerful, scalable (GPS) graph Transformer with linear complexity and state-of-the-art results on a diverse set of benchmarks. Graph Transformers (GTs) have gained popularity in the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ladislav Rampášek , Mikhail Galkin , Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Anh Tuan Luu , Guy Wolf , Dominique Beaini

Recently the Transformer structure has shown good performances in graph learning tasks. However, these Transformer models directly work on graph nodes and may have difficulties learning high-level information. Inspired by the vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Han Gao , Xu Han , Jiaoyang Huang , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated great effectiveness across various graph analytical tasks. However, the existing GTs focus on training and testing graph data originated from the same distribution, but fail to generalize under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tianyin Liao , Ziwei Zhang , Yufei Sun , Chunyu Hu , Jianxin Li

Despite that going deep has proven successful in many neural architectures, the existing graph transformers are relatively shallow. In this work, we explore whether more layers are beneficial to graph transformers, and find that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haiteng Zhao , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Furu Wei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers share significant similarities in their encoding strategies for interacting with features from nodes of interest, where Transformers use query-key scores and GNNs use edges. Compared to GNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaxin Qi , Yan Cui , Jinli Ou , Jianqiang Huang , Gaogang Xie

Today we have a good theoretical understanding of the representational power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). For example, their limitations have been characterized in relation to a hierarchy of Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) isomorphism tests.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh , Vijay Lingam , Aleksandar Bojchevski

The dominant graph-to-sequence transduction models employ graph neural networks for graph representation learning, where the structural information is reflected by the receptive field of neurons. Unlike graph neural networks that restrict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Deng Cai , Wai Lam

Transformers and more specifically decoder-only transformers dominate modern LLM architectures. While they have shown to work exceptionally well, they are not without issues, resulting in surprising failure modes and predictably asymmetric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hunjae Lee

Graphs provide a unified representation of semantic content and relational structure, making them a natural fit for domains such as molecular modeling, citation networks, and social graphs. Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haotian Xu , Yuning You , Tengfei Ma

Research on graph representation learning has received a lot of attention in recent years since many data in real-world applications come in form of graphs. High-dimensional graph data are often in irregular form, which makes them more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Fenxiao Chen , Yuncheng Wang , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

A foundation model like GPT elicits many emergent abilities, owing to the pre-training with broad inclusion of data and the use of the powerful Transformer architecture. While foundation models in natural languages are prevalent, can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziyuan Tang , Jie Chen

The dominant paradigm for machine learning on graphs uses Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs), in which node representations are updated by aggregating information in their local neighborhood. Recently, there have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Daniel Glickman , Eran Yahav

Following a fast initial breakthrough in graph based learning, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have reached a widespread application in many science and engineering fields, prompting the need for methods to understand their decision process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Antonio Longa , Steve Azzolin , Gabriele Santin , Giulia Cencetti , Pietro Liò , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini

Graph Neural Networks are notorious for its memory consumption. A recent Transformer-based GNN called Graph Transformer is shown to obtain superior performances when long range dependencies exist. However, combining graph data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Eugene Ku

Network data can be conveniently modeled as a graph signal, where data values are assigned to nodes of a graph that describes the underlying network topology. Successful learning from network data is built upon methods that effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Fernando Gama , Elvin Isufi , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

Transformers have revolutionized machine learning with their simple yet effective architecture. Pre-training Transformers on massive text datasets from the Internet has led to unmatched generalization for natural language understanding…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the standard learning architectures for graphs. GNNs have been applied to numerous domains ranging from quantum chemistry, recommender systems to knowledge graphs and natural language processing. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Anh Tuan Luu , Thomas Laurent , Yoshua Bengio , Xavier Bresson