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Link prediction (LP), inferring the connectivity between nodes, is a significant research area in graph data, where a link represents essential information on relationships between nodes. Although graph neural network (GNN)-based models…

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Existing multiplex graph models often assume homophily, where connected nodes tend to belong to the same class or share similar attributes. Consequently, these models may struggle with graphs exhibiting heterophily, where connected nodes…

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Graphs with heterophily have been regarded as challenging scenarios for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where nodes are connected with dissimilar neighbors through various patterns. In this paper, we present theoretical understandings of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Junfu Wang , Yuanfang Guo , Liang Yang , Yunhong Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of real-world applications by relying on the fixed graph data as input. However, the initial input graph might not be optimal in terms of specific downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Beidi Zhao , Boxin Du , Zhe Xu , Liangyue Li , Hanghang Tong

Node classifiers are required to comprehensively reduce prediction errors, training resources, and inference latency in the industry. However, most graph neural networks (GNN) concentrate only on one or two of them. The compromised aspects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Luo , Guangchun Luo , Ke Qin , Aiguo Chen

Real-world graphs are typically complex, exhibiting heterogeneity in the global structure, as well as strong heterophily within local neighborhoods. While a growing body of literature has revealed the limitations of common graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jintang Li , Zheng Wei , Jiawang Dan , Jing Zhou , Yuchang Zhu , Ruofan Wu , Baokun Wang , Zhang Zhen , Changhua Meng , Hong Jin , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

This paper studies semi-supervised graph classification, which is an important problem with various applications in social network analysis and bioinformatics. This problem is typically solved by using graph neural networks (GNNs), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Wei Ju , Junwei Yang , Meng Qu , Weiping Song , Jianhao Shen , Ming Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in learning from graph-structured data but often struggle on heterophilous graphs, where connected nodes differ in features or class labels. This limitation arises from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhongtian Sun , Anoushka Harit , Alexandra Cristea , Christl A. Donnelly , Pietro Liò

We bridge two research directions on graph neural networks (GNNs), by formalizing the relation between heterophily of node labels (i.e., connected nodes tend to have dissimilar labels) and the robustness of GNNs to adversarial attacks. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jiong Zhu , Junchen Jin , Donald Loveland , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Recently, graph Convolutional Neural Networks (graph CNNs) have been widely used for graph data representation and semi-supervised learning tasks. However, existing graph CNNs generally use a fixed graph which may be not optimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Bo Jiang , Ziyan Zhang , Doudou Lin , Jin Tang

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on node classification tasks in a semi-supervised learning setting. However, as in the simpler homogeneous GNN case, message-passing-based heterogeneous GNNs may struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hongjoon Ahn , Yongyi Yang , Quan Gan , Taesup Moon , David Wipf

We propose a novel solution to addressing a long-standing dilemma in the representation learning of graph neural networks (GNNs): how to effectively capture and represent useful information embedded in long-distance nodes to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Ailing Zeng , Minhao Liu , Zhiwei Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Jing Qin , Qiang Xu

The task of node classification is to infer unknown node labels, given the labels for some of the nodes along with the network structure and other node attributes. Typically, approaches for this task assume homophily, whereby neighboring…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Arpit Merchant , Michael Mathioudakis

Graph-based semi-supervised node classification has been shown to become a state-of-the-art approach in many applications with high research value and significance. Most existing methods are only based on the original intrinsic or…

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Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which learn the node representations by recursively aggregating information from its neighbors, have become a predominant computational tool in many domains. To handle large-scale graphs, most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu , Fan Yang , Zirui Liu , Rui Chen , Li Li , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in representation learning on graphs and achieved superior performance in tasks such as node classification. However, analyzing heterogeneous graph of different types of nodes and links…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Shin-woo Park , Byung Jun Bae , Jinyoung Yeo , Seung-won Hwang

Graph-based fraud detection (GFD) can be regarded as a challenging semi-supervised node binary classification task. In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been widely applied to GFD, characterizing the anomalous possibility of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Hao Wu , Xuezhi Wen , Xibin Zhao , Hai Wan

One of the most challenging problems in graph machine learning is generalizing across graphs with diverse properties. Graph neural networks (GNNs) face a fundamental limitation: they require separate training for each new graph, preventing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jeongwhan Choi , Jongwoo Kim , Woosung Kang , Noseong Park

The original design of Graph Convolution Network (GCN) couples feature transformation and neighborhood aggregation for node representation learning. Recently, some work shows that coupling is inferior to decoupling, which supports deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Hande Dong , Jiawei Chen , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Shuxian Bi , Zhaolin Ding , Peng Cui