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This work provides the first theoretical study on the ability of graph Message Passing Neural Networks (gMPNNs) -- such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) -- to perform inductive out-of-distribution (OOD) link prediction tasks, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yangze Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok , Bruno Ribeiro

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become compelling models designed to perform learning and inference on graph-structured data. However, little work has been done to understand the fundamental limitations of GNNs for scaling to larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Hyungeun Lee , Kijung Yoon

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are typically applied to static graphs that are assumed to be known upfront. This static input structure is often informed purely by insight of the machine learning practitioner, and might not be optimal for the…

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) hold a key position in machine learning on graphs, but they struggle with unintended behaviors, such as over-smoothing and over-squashing, due to irregular data structures. The observation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Junhyun Lee , Veronika Thost , Bumsoo Kim , Jaewoo Kang , Tengfei Ma

In this paper, we derive generalization bounds for the two primary classes of graph neural networks (GNNs), namely graph convolutional networks (GCNs) and message passing GNNs (MPGNNs), via a PAC-Bayesian approach. Our result reveals that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Renjie Liao , Raquel Urtasun , Richard Zemel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an emerging research field. This specialized Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture is capable of processing graph structured data and bridges the gap between graph processing and Deep Learning (DL). As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jana Vatter , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Expressivity and generalization are two critical aspects of graph neural networks (GNNs). While significant progress has been made in studying the expressivity of GNNs, much less is known about their generalization capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shouheng Li , Floris Geerts , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

Recent advancements in graph learning have revolutionized the way to understand and analyze data with complex structures. Notably, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), i.e. neural network architectures designed for learning graph representations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yu Huang , Min Zhou , Menglin Yang , Zhen Wang , Muhan Zhang , Jie Wang , Hong Xie , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

This paper introduces a generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) from low-dimensional grid data, such as images, to graph-structured data. We propose a novel spatial convolution utilizing a random walk to uncover the relations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Yotam Hechtlinger , Purvasha Chakravarti , Jining Qin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are popular to use for classifying structured data in the context of machine learning. But surprisingly, they are rarely applied to regression problems. In this work, we adopt GNN for a classic but challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Wenzhong Yan , Di Jin , Zhidi Lin , Feng Yin

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) operate on graphs by exchanging information between neigbouring nodes. MPNNs have been successfully applied to various node-, edge-, and graph-level tasks in areas like molecular science, computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lisi Qarkaxhija , Anatol E. Wegner , Ingo Scholtes

We address two fundamental questions about graph neural networks (GNNs). First, we prove that several important graph properties cannot be computed by GNNs that rely entirely on local information. Such GNNs include the standard message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Vikas K. Garg , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi Jaakkola

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performances in a wide range of applications including image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Previous research on characterizing the generalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-04 Shan Lin , Jingwei Zhang

In recent years, there has been a surge in applying deep learning to various challenging design problems in communication networks. The early attempts adopt neural architectures inherited from applications such as computer vision, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yifei Shen , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have shown a strong potential to be integrated into commercial products for network control and management. Early works using GNN have demonstrated an unprecedented capability to learn from different network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Miquel Ferriol-Galmés , José Suárez-Varela , Krzysztof Rusek , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

We analyze the universality and generalization of graph neural networks (GNNs) on attributed graphs, i.e., with node attributes. To this end, we propose pseudometrics over the space of all attributed graphs that describe the fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Levi Rauchwerger , Stefanie Jegelka , Ron Levie

The paper presents a solution to the problem of universal representation of graphs exemplifying communication network topologies with the help of neural networks. The proposed approach is based on message-passing neural networks (MPNN). The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Krzysztof Rusek , Piotr Chołda

As large-scale graphs become more widespread, more and more computational challenges with extracting, processing, and interpreting large graph data are being exposed. It is therefore natural to search for ways to summarize these expansive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Nasrin Shabani , Jia Wu , Amin Beheshti , Quan Z. Sheng , Jin Foo , Venus Haghighi , Ambreen Hanif , Maryam Shahabikargar

The message passing framework is the foundation of the immense success enjoyed by graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. In spite of its elegance, there exist many problems it provably cannot solve over given input graphs. This has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Petar Veličković

Graph neural network have achieved impressive results in predicting molecular properties, but they do not directly account for local and hidden structures in the graph such as functional groups and molecular geometry. At each propagation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Tony Wu , Pascal Friederich , Alan Aspuru-Guzik