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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used in graph-based applications, such as social networks and recommendation systems. Nevertheless, large-scale graphs or deep aggregation layers in full-batch GCNs consume significant GPU…

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Jumping connections enable Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to overcome over-smoothing, while graph sparsification reduces computational demands by selecting a sub-matrix of the graph adjacency matrix during neighborhood aggregation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiawei Sun , Hongkang Li , Meng Wang

Message passing has evolved as an effective tool for designing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, most existing methods for message passing simply sum or average all the neighboring features to update node representations. They are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rui Yang , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Financial fraud is always a major problem in the field of finance, as it can cause significant consequences. As a result, many approaches have been designed to detect it, and lately Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hoang Hiep Trieu

Recently, graph-based models designed for downstream tasks have significantly advanced research on graph neural networks (GNNs). GNN baselines based on neural message-passing mechanisms such as GCN and GAT perform worse as the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Jiayuan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Tianli Zhao , Renjie Xie , Wei Xu

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as a promising graph learning tool, leveraging their all-pair connected property to effectively capture global information. To address the over-smoothing problem in deep GNNs, global attention was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Chaohao Yuan , Zhenjie Song , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu , Kangfei Zhao , Yang Liu , Deli Zhao , Hong Cheng , Yu Rong

Graph convolutions have been a pivotal element in learning graph representations. However, recursively aggregating neighboring information with graph convolutions leads to indistinguishable node features in deep layers, which is known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jialin Chen , Yuelin Wang , Cristian Bodnar , Rex Ying , Pietro Lio , Yu Guang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable empirical success in processing and representing graph-structured data across various domains. However, a significant challenge known as "oversmoothing" persists, where vertex features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ziang Chen , Zhengjiang Lin , Shi Chen , Yury Polyanskiy , Philippe Rigollet

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) learn node representations through iterative network-based message-passing. While powerful, deep GNNs suffer from oversmoothing, where node features converge to a homogeneous, non-informative state. We re-frame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Erkan Turan , Gaspard Abel , Maysam Behmanesh , Emery Pierson , Maks Ovsjanikov

Graph Neural Network (GNN) achieves great success for node-level and graph-level tasks via encoding meaningful topological structures of networks in various domains, ranging from social to biological networks. However, repeated aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tanvir Hossain , Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Farhan Tanvir , Esra Akbas

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become pivotal tools for processing graph-structured data, leveraging the message passing scheme as their core mechanism. However, traditional GNNs often grapple with issues such as instability,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Yuanhong Jiang , Dongmian Zou , Xiaoqun Zhang , Yu Guang Wang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) is the state-of-the-art method for learning graph-structured data, and training large-scale GCNs requires distributed training across multiple accelerators such that each accelerator is able to hold a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Wan , Youjie Li , Cameron R. Wolfe , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Nam Sung Kim , Yingyan Lin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are non-Euclidean deep learning models for graph-structured data. Despite their successful and diverse applications, oversmoothing prohibits deep architectures due to node features converging to a single fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Arseny Skryagin , Felix Divo , Mohammad Amin Ali , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

Recently, motivated by real applications, a major research direction in graph neural networks (GNNs) is to explore deeper structures. For instance, the graph connectivity is not always consistent with the label distribution (e.g., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Lecheng Zheng , Dongqi Fu , Ross Maciejewski , Jingrui He

Despite Graph neural networks' significant performance gain over many classic techniques in various graph-related downstream tasks, their successes are restricted in shallow models due to over-smoothness and the difficulties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jin Li , Qirong Zhang , Shuling Xu , Xinlong Chen , Longkun Guo , Yang-Geng Fu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data, but their scalability is increasingly strained by the size of real-world graphs in domains like recommender systems, fraud detection, and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mridul Gupta , Samyak Jain , Vansh Ramani , Hariprasad Kodamana , Sayan Ranu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with equivariant properties have achieved significant success in modeling complex dynamic systems and molecular properties. However, their expressiveness ability is limited by: (1) Existing methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yingxu Wang , Nan Yin , Mingyan Xiao , Xinhao Yi , Siwei Liu , Shangsong Liang

In this work, we generalize the ideas of Kaiming initialization to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and propose a new scheme (G-Init) that reduces oversmoothing, leading to very good results in node and graph classification tasks. GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dimitrios Kelesis , Dimitris Fotakis , Georgios Paliouras

Oversmoothing is a fundamental limitation of deep graph convolutional networks (GCNs), causing node representations to collapse as depth increases. While many prior approaches mitigate this effect through architectural modifications or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sai Vamsi Alisetti