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Semi-supervised learning on graphs is an important problem in the machine learning area. In recent years, state-of-the-art classification methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown their superiority over traditional ones such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Cheng Yang , Jiawei Liu , Chuan Shi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at transferring knowledge from a larger well-optimized teacher network to a smaller learnable student network.Existing KD methods have mainly considered two types of knowledge, namely the individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sheng Zhou , Yucheng Wang , Defang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xin Wang , Can Wang , Jiajun Bu

Knowledge distillation enhances the performance of compact student networks by transferring knowledge from more powerful teacher networks without introducing additional parameters. In the feature space, local regions within an individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Cuipeng Wang , Haipeng Wang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

For large-scale applications, there is growing interest in replacing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) via knowledge distillation. However, distilling GNNs for self-supervised graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seong Jin Ahn , Myoung-Ho Kim

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNs) possess strong capabilities for processing graph data in non-grid domains. They can capture the topological logical structure and node features in graphs and integrate them into nodes' final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yinwei Wu

Recent years have witnessed great success in handling graph-related tasks with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Despite their great academic success, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Zhangyang Gao , Guojiang Zhao , Stan Z. Li

Recent advances in event-based research prioritize sparsity and temporal precision. Approaches using dense frame-based representations processed via well-pretrained CNNs are being replaced by the use of sparse point-based representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yongjian Deng , Hao Chen , Bochen Xie , Hai Liu , Youfu Li

Recent years have witnessed the great success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in handling graph-related tasks. However, MLPs remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial applications due to their desirable inference efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Tianyu Fan , Stan Z. Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown great potential for transferring knowledge from a complex teacher model to a simple student model in which the heavy learning task can be accomplished efficiently and without losing too much prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Dai Shi , Zhiqi Shao , Yi Guo , Junbin Gao

Knowledge distillation (KD) has demonstrated its effectiveness to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where its goal is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kaituo Feng , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Despite plentiful successes achieved by graph representation learning in various domains, the training of graph neural networks (GNNs) still remains tenaciously challenging due to the tremendous computational overhead needed for sizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Renchi Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted tremendous attention by demonstrating their capability to handle graph data. However, they are difficult to be deployed in resource-limited devices due to model sizes and scalability constraints…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Yijun Tian , Shichao Pei , Xiangliang Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Nitesh V. Chawla

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are being increasingly used in many high-stakes tasks, and as a result, there is growing attention on their fairness recently. GNNs have been shown to be unfair as they tend to make discriminatory decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained considerable attention in recent years for traffic flow prediction due to their ability to learn spatio-temporal pattern representations through a graph-based message-passing framework. Although GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Qianru Zhang , Xinyi Gao , Haixin Wang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Hongzhi Yin

Recent studies attempted to utilize multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to solve semi-supervised node classification on graphs, by training a student MLP by knowledge distillation (KD) from a teacher graph neural network (GNN). While previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yong-Min Shin , Won-Yong Shin

In visual tasks, large teacher models capture essential features and deep information, enhancing performance. However, distilling this information into smaller student models often leads to performance loss due to structural differences and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zhiwei Wang , Jun Huang , Longhua Ma , Chengyu Wu , Hongyu Ma

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the go-to model for graph data analysis. However, GNNs rely on two key operations - aggregation and update, which can pose challenges for low-latency inference tasks or resource-constrained scenarios. Simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Amir Eskandari , Aman Anand , Elyas Rashno , Farhana Zulkernine

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique to derive optimal performance from a small student network (SN) by distilling knowledge of a large teacher network (TN) and transferring the distilled knowledge to the small SN. Since a role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song