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Large-scale graph training is a notoriously challenging problem for graph neural networks (GNNs). Due to the nature of evolving graph structures into the training process, vanilla GNNs usually fail to scale up, limited by the GPU memory…

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Training Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) on a large monolithic graph presents unique challenges as the graph cannot fit within a single machine and it cannot be decomposed into smaller disconnected components. Distributed sampling-based…

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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized for deep learning on graphs. The large data sizes of graphs and their vertex features make scalable training algorithms and distributed memory systems necessary. Since the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gunduz Vehbi Demirci , Aparajita Haldar , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Recent years have witnessed great success in handling node classification tasks with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, most existing GNNs are based on the assumption that node samples for different classes are balanced, while for many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan. Z. Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful tool for learning from graph-structured data and performing sophisticated inference tasks in various application domains. Although GNNs have been shown to be effective on modest-sized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jeongmin Brian Park , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Zaid Qureshi , Wen-mei Hwu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a type of neural network capable of learning on graph-structured data. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs is challenging due to iterative aggregations of high-dimensional features from neighboring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nikolai Merkel , Pierre Toussing , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Graphs are omnipresent and GNNs are a powerful family of neural networks for learning over graphs. Despite their popularity, scaling GNNs either by deepening or widening suffers from prevalent issues of unhealthy gradients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Ajay Jaiswal , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used today in recommendation systems, fraud detection, and node/link classification tasks. Real world GNNs continue to scale in size and require a large memory footprint for storing graphs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jeongmin Brian Park , Kun Wu , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Zaid Quresh , Scott Mahlke , Wen-mei Hwu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising results in modeling graphs in various tasks. The training of GNNs, especially on specialized tasks such as bioinformatics, demands extensive expert annotations, which are expensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Minhua Lin , Enyan Dai , Junjie Xu , Jinyuan Jia , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

We present distributed algorithms for training dynamic Graph Neural Networks (GNN) on large scale graphs spanning multi-node, multi-GPU systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scaling study on dynamic GNN. We devise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Shivmaran S. Pandian , Saurabh Raje , Yogish Sabharwal , Toyotaro Suzumura , Shashanka Ubaru

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in diverse domains. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs poses significant challenges due to high memory demands and significant communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Arefin Niam , M S Q Zulkar Nine

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art method for graph-based learning tasks. However, training GCNs at scale is still challenging, hindering both the exploration of more sophisticated GCN architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Cheng Wan , Youjie Li , Ang Li , Nam Sung Kim , Yingyan Lin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful and flexible neural networks that use the naturally sparse connectivity information of the data. GNNs represent this connectivity as sparse matrices, which have lower arithmetic intensity and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alok Tripathy , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become state-of-the-art algorithms for analyzing non-euclidean graph data. However, to realize efficient GNN training is challenging, especially on large graphs. The reasons are many-folded: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhe Zhou , Cong Li , Xuechao Wei , Xiaoyang Wang , Guangyu Sun

Given the prevalence of large-scale graphs in real-world applications, the storage and time for training neural models have raised increasing concerns. To alleviate the concerns, we propose and study the problem of graph condensation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Wei Jin , Lingxiao Zhao , Shichang Zhang , Yozen Liu , Jiliang Tang , Neil Shah

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) is a model that can effectively handle graph data tasks and has been successfully applied. However, for large-scale graph datasets, GCN still faces the challenge of high computational overhead, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Guan Wang , Shuyin Xia , Lei Qian , Tao Wu , Guoyin Wang , Yi Wang , Wei Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are shown to be successful in modeling applications with graph structures. However, training an accurate GNN model requires a large collection of labeled data and expressive features, which might be inaccessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ziniu Hu , Changjun Fan , Ting Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn to represent nodes by aggregating information from their neighbors. As GNNs increase in depth, their receptive field grows exponentially, leading to high memory costs. Several existing methods address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Taraneh Younesian , Daniel Daza , Emile van Krieken , Thiviyan Thanapalasingam , Peter Bloem

Graph neural network (GNN) has been demonstrated to be a powerful model in many domains for its effectiveness in learning over graphs. To scale GNN training for large graphs, a widely adopted approach is distributed training which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Haiyang Lin , Mingyu Yan , Xiaocheng Yang , Mo Zou , Wenming Li , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Many widely used datasets for graph machine learning tasks have generally been homophilous, where nodes with similar labels connect to each other. Recently, new Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been developed that move beyond the homophily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Derek Lim , Felix Hohne , Xiuyu Li , Sijia Linda Huang , Vaishnavi Gupta , Omkar Bhalerao , Ser-Nam Lim