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Training deep graph neural networks (GNNs) poses a challenging task, as the performance of GNNs may suffer from the number of hidden message-passing layers. The literature has focused on the proposals of {over-smoothing} and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-27 Yirui Liu , Xinghao Qiao , Liying Wang , Jessica Lam

Graph data, with its structurally variable nature, represents complex real-world phenomena like chemical compounds, protein structures, and social networks. Traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) primarily utilize the message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jianming Huang , Hiroyuki Kasai

Graph neural networks excel at modeling pairwise interactions, but they cannot flexibly accommodate higher-order interactions and features. Topological deep learning (TDL) has emerged recently as a promising tool for addressing this issue.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Claudio Battiloro , Ege Karaismailoğlu , Mauricio Tec , George Dasoulas , Michelle Audirac , Francesca Dominici

Robustness in complex systems is of significant engineering and economic importance. However, conventional attack-based a posteriori robustness assessments incur prohibitive computational overhead. Recently, deep learning methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chengyu Tian , Wenbin Pei

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in graph-related contexts. It is known that the separation power of GNNs is equivalent to that of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test; hence, GNNs are imperfect at identifying all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ziang Chen , Qiao Zhang , Runzhong Wang

It has been shown that a message passing neural networks (MPNNs), a popular family of neural networks for graph-structured data, are at most as expressive as the first-order Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) graph isomorphism test, which has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Markus Zopf

Designing expressive Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a fundamental topic in the graph learning community. So far, GNN expressiveness has been primarily assessed via the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) hierarchy. However, such an expressivity measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bohang Zhang , Jingchu Gai , Yiheng Du , Qiwei Ye , Di He , Liwei Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an effective framework for representation learning of graphs. GNNs follow a neighborhood aggregation scheme, where the representation vector of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Keyulu Xu , Weihua Hu , Jure Leskovec , Stefanie Jegelka

Traditional Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) struggles to capture complex structural properties well. This limitation stems from two main factors: (1) the inadequacy of conventional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in representing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Asiri Wijesinghe , Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential in high-stakes domains such as drug discovery, yet their black-box nature remains a significant barrier to trustworthiness. While self-explainable GNNs attempt to bridge this gap, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Chuqin Geng , Li Zhang , Haolin Ye , Ziyu Zhao , Yuhe Jiang , Tara Saba , Xinyu Wang , Xujie Si

The expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is often analysed via correspondence to the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) algorithm and fragments of first-order logic. Standard GNNs are limited to performing aggregation over immediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Huan Luo , Jonni Virtema

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have emerged as the most popular framework of graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. However, their expressive power is limited by the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) test. Some works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiarui Feng , Lecheng Kong , Hao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Fuhai Li , Muhan Zhang , Yixin Chen

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

Learning to reason about relations and dynamics over multiple interacting objects is a challenging topic in machine learning. The challenges mainly stem from that the interacting systems are exponentially-compositional, symmetrical, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Wenbing Huang , Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Fuchun Sun , Junzhou Huang

Graph Transformer has recently received wide attention in the research community with its outstanding performance, yet its structural expressive power has not been well analyzed. Inspired by the connections between Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Wenhao Zhu , Tianyu Wen , Guojie Song , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) are a powerful framework for learning representations of graph-structured domains. However, weights in MPNNs act on features only, limiting their ability to capture structural patterns. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Florian Seiffarth

Identifying similar network structures is key to capture graph isomorphisms and learn representations that exploit structural information encoded in graph data. This work shows that ego-networks can produce a structural encoding scheme for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Nurudin Alvarez-Gonzalez , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicenç Gómez

Subgraph GNNs are provably expressive neural architectures that learn graph representations from sets of subgraphs. Unfortunately, their applicability is hampered by the computational complexity associated with performing message passing on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Beatrice Bevilacqua , Moshe Eliasof , Eli Meirom , Bruno Ribeiro , Haggai Maron

This paper presents $\mathrm{E}(n)$ Equivariant Message Passing Simplicial Networks (EMPSNs), a novel approach to learning on geometric graphs and point clouds that is equivariant to rotations, translations, and reflections. EMPSNs can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Floor Eijkelboom , Rob Hesselink , Erik Bekkers

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), especially message-passing neural networks (MPNNs), have emerged as powerful architectures for learning on graphs in diverse applications. However, MPNNs face challenges when modeling non-local interactions in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-31 Ilyes Batatia , Lars L. Schaaf , Huajie Chen , Gábor Csányi , Christoph Ortner , Felix A. Faber