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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown advantages in graph-based analysis tasks. However, most existing methods have the homogeneity assumption and show poor performance on heterophilic graphs, where the linked nodes have dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tianhao Peng , Wenjun Wu , Haitao Yuan , Zhifeng Bao , Zhao Pengrui , Xin Yu , Xuetao Lin , Yu Liang , Yanjun Pu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely employed for semi-supervised node classification tasks on graphs. However, the performance of GNNs is significantly affected by label noise, that is, a small amount of incorrectly labeled nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Rui Zhao , Bin Shi , Zhiming Liang , Jianfei Ruan , Bo Dong , Lu Lin

Graph-based semi-supervised learning, which can exploit the connectivity relationship between labeled and unlabeled data, has been shown to outperform the state-of-the-art in many artificial intelligence applications. One of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jianpeng Liao , Qian Tao , Jun Yan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs often struggle with heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes tend to have dissimilar features or labels. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ruizhong Qiu , Ting-Wei Li , Gaotang Li , Hanghang Tong

Label Propagation (LPA) and Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCN) are both message passing algorithms on graphs. Both solve the task of node classification but LPA propagates node label information across the edges of the graph, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Hongwei Wang , Jure Leskovec

We present graph partition neural networks (GPNN), an extension of graph neural networks (GNNs) able to handle extremely large graphs. GPNNs alternate between locally propagating information between nodes in small subgraphs and globally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Renjie Liao , Marc Brockschmidt , Daniel Tarlow , Alexander L. Gaunt , Raquel Urtasun , Richard Zemel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification tasks. However, recent studies have revealed various biases in GNNs stemming from both node features and graph topology. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Haoyu Han , Xiaorui Liu , Feng Shi , MohamadAli Torkamani , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

This paper studies semi-supervised graph classification, a crucial task with a wide range of applications in social network analysis and bioinformatics. Recent works typically adopt graph neural networks to learn graph-level representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Wei Ju , Xiao Luo , Meng Qu , Yifan Wang , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Xian-Sheng Hua , Ming Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years and have achieved excellent performance in semi-supervised node classification tasks. The success of most GNNs relies on one fundamental assumption, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Junchao Lin , Yuan Wan , Jingwen Xu , Xingchen Qi

While graph heterophily has been extensively studied in recent years, a fundamental research question largely remains nascent: How and to what extent will graph heterophily affect the prediction performance of graph neural networks (GNNs)?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Shuaicheng Zhang , Haohui Wang , Si Zhang , Dawei Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the predominant technique for learning over graphs. However, there is relatively little understanding of why GNNs are successful in practice and whether they are necessary for good performance. Here, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Qian Huang , Horace He , Abhay Singh , Ser-Nam Lim , Austin R. Benson

Real-world graphs exhibit increasing heterophily, where nodes no longer tend to be connected to nodes with the same label, challenging the homophily assumption of classical graph neural networks (GNNs) and impeding their performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jiajun Zhou , Chenxuan Xie , Shengbo Gong , Jiaxu Qian , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel on homophilic graphs where connected nodes share labels, but struggle with heterophilic graphs where edges do not imply similarity. Moreover, iterative message passing limits scalability due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Turja Kundu , Sanjukta Bhowmick

The message-passing mechanism underlying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is not naturally suited for heterophilic datasets, where adjacent nodes often have different labels. Most solutions to this problem remain confined to the task of node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco , Francesco Caso , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

Graph heterophily, where connected nodes have different labels, has attracted significant interest recently. Most existing works adopt a simplified approach - using low-pass filters for homophilic graphs and high-pass filters for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shuaicheng Zhang , Haohui Wang , Junhong Lin , Xiaojie Guo , Yada Zhu , Si Zhang , Dongqi Fu , Dawei Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention for representation learning in various machine learning tasks. However, most existing GNNs applying neighborhood aggregation usually perform poorly on the graph with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wei Zhuo , Guang Tan

The emergence of graph neural networks (GNNs) has offered a powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification tasks. Subsequent studies have achieved further improvements through refining the message passing schemes in GNN models or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Songbo Wang , Renchi Yang , Yurui Lai , Xiaoyang Lin , Tsz Nam Chan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become pivotal tools for a range of graph-based learning tasks. Notably, most current GNN architectures operate under the assumption of homophily, whether explicitly or implicitly. While this underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kun Wang , Guibin Zhang , Xinnan Zhang , Junfeng Fang , Xun Wu , Guohao Li , Shirui Pan , Wei Huang , Yuxuan Liang

Heterophily has been considered as an issue that hurts the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). To address this issue, some existing work uses a graph-level weighted fusion of the information of multi-hop neighbors to include more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuhan Chen , Yihong Luo , Jing Tang , Liang Yang , Siya Qiu , Chuan Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs often struggle with heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes tend to have dissimilar features or labels. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruizhong Qiu , Ting-Wei Li , Gaotang Li , Hanghang Tong