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In recent years, there has been a significant amount of research focused on expanding the expressivity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) beyond the Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) framework. While many of these studies have yielded advancements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shouheng Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

Recently, the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test was used to measure the expressiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs), showing that the neighborhood aggregation GNNs were at most as powerful as 1-WL test in distinguishing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mingqi Yang , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the standard for learning on graphs, yet they have limited expressive power, often expressed in terms of the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) hierarchy or within the framework of first-order logic. In this context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amirreza Akbari , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a large class of relational models for graph processing. Recent theoretical studies on the expressive power of GNNs have focused on two issues. On the one hand, it has been proven that GNNs are as powerful…

From the perspective of expressive power, this work compares multi-layer Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with a simplified alternative that we call Graph-Augmented Multi-Layer Perceptrons (GA-MLPs), which first augments node features with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Lei Chen , Zhengdao Chen , Joan Bruna

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard approach for learning and reasoning over relational data, leveraging the message-passing mechanism that iteratively propagates node embeddings through graph structures. While GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Wei Wang , Jiahao Zhang

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

The expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) is typically understood through their correspondence with graph isomorphism tests such as the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) hierarchy. While more expressive GNNs can distinguish a richer set of…

The expressive power of message passing GNNs is upper-bounded by Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test. To achieve high expressive GNNs beyond WL test, we propose a novel graph isomorphism test method, namely Twin-WL, which simultaneously passes node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhaohui Wang , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Bingbing Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Message passing graph neural networks (GNNs) are known to have their expressiveness upper-bounded by 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) algorithm. To achieve more powerful GNNs, existing attempts either require ad hoc features, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Meng Liu , Haiyang Yu , Shuiwang Ji

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool to learn representations on graphs by iteratively aggregating features from node neighbourhoods. Many variant models have been proposed, but there is limited understanding on both how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Michael Lingzhi Li , Meng Dong , Jiawei Zhou , Alexander M. Rush

Recently, the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test was used to measure the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNN). It was shown that the popular message passing GNN cannot distinguish between graphs that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Haggai Maron , Heli Ben-Hamu , Hadar Serviansky , Yaron Lipman

The expressive power of message passing neural networks (MPNNs) is known to match the expressive power of the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman graph (1-WL) isomorphism test. To boost the expressive power of MPNNs, a number of graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Floris Geerts

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are effective machine learning models for various graph learning problems. Despite their empirical successes, the theoretical limitations of GNNs have been revealed recently. Consequently, many GNN models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ryoma Sato

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for data-driven learning on various graph domains. They are usually based on a message-passing mechanism and have gained increasing popularity for their intuitive formulation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Simone Brugiapaglia , Mirco Ravanelli

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

Since the Message Passing (Graph) Neural Networks (MPNNs) have a linear complexity with respect to the number of nodes when applied to sparse graphs, they have been widely implemented and still raise a lot of interest even though their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Muhammet Balcilar , Pierre Héroux , Benoit Gaüzère , Pascal Vasseur , Sébastien Adam , Paul Honeine

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are effective tools for graph representation learning. Most GNNs rely on a recursive neighborhood aggregation scheme, named message passing, thereby their theoretical expressive power is limited to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dingmin Wang , Shengchao Liu , Hanchen Wang , Bernardo Cuenca Grau , Linfeng Song , Jian Tang , Song Le , Qi Liu

Most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) cannot distinguish some graphs or indeed some pairs of nodes within a graph. This makes it impossible to solve certain classification tasks. However, adding additional node features to these models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Beni Egressy , Roger Wattenhofer

Recently, subgraph GNNs have emerged as an important direction for developing expressive graph neural networks (GNNs). While numerous architectures have been proposed, so far there is still a limited understanding of how various design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Bohang Zhang , Guhao Feng , Yiheng Du , Di He , Liwei Wang