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Session-based recommendation systems suggest relevant items to users by modeling user behavior and preferences using short-term anonymous sessions. Existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that propagate and aggregate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Sai Mitheran , Abhinav Java , Surya Kant Sahu , Arshad Shaikh

The remarkable success of large language models (LLMs) has motivated researchers to adapt them as universal predictors for various graph tasks. As a widely recognized paradigm, Graph-Tokenizing LLMs (GTokenLLMs) compress complex graph data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhongjian Zhang , Yue Yu , Mengmei Zhang , Junping Du , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi

Learning representations on large-sized graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature involved in massive data points. Transformers, as an emerging class of foundation encoders for graph-structured data, have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qitian Wu , Wentao Zhao , Chenxiao Yang , Hengrui Zhang , Fan Nie , Haitian Jiang , Yatao Bian , Junchi Yan

We introduce Attention Graphs, a new tool for mechanistic interpretability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers based on the mathematical equivalence between message passing in GNNs and the self-attention mechanism in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Batu El , Deepro Choudhury , Pietro Liò , Chaitanya K. Joshi

Graph neural networks (GNNs), in general, are built on the assumption of a static set of features characterizing each node in a graph. This assumption is often violated in practice. Existing methods partly address this issue through feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shubham Gupta , Sahil Manchanda , Sayan Ranu , Srikanta Bedathur

Recent studies have highlighted the limitations of message-passing based graph neural networks (GNNs), e.g., limited model expressiveness, over-smoothing, over-squashing, etc. To alleviate these issues, Graph Transformers (GTs) have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Qiheng Mao , Zemin Liu , Chenghao Liu , Jianling Sun

Recently, the emerging graph Transformers have made significant advancements for node classification on graphs. In most graph Transformers, a crucial step involves transforming the input graph into token sequences as the model input,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jinsong Chen , Siyu Jiang , Kun He

Graph Transformers (GTs) have recently emerged as popular alternatives to traditional message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), due to their theoretically superior expressiveness and impressive performance reported on standard node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuankai Luo , Lei Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

We propose an end-to-end deep learning learning model for graph classification and representation learning that is invariant to permutation of the nodes of the input graphs. We address the challenge of learning a fixed size graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Peter Meltzer , Marcelo Daniel Gutierrez Mallea , Peter J. Bentley

Temporal graph neural networks (TGNNs) outperform regular GNNs by incorporating time information into graph-based operations. However, TGNNs adopt specialized models (e.g., TGN, TGAT, and APAN ) and require tailored training frameworks…

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The representation learning on textual graph is to generate low-dimensional embeddings for the nodes based on the individual textual features and the neighbourhood information. Recent breakthroughs on pretrained language models and graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Junhan Yang , Zheng Liu , Shitao Xiao , Chaozhuo Li , Defu Lian , Sanjay Agrawal , Amit Singh , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

We generalize the scattering transform to graphs and consequently construct a convolutional neural network on graphs. We show that under certain conditions, any feature generated by such a network is approximately invariant to permutations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

Graphs are the natural data structure to represent relational and structural information in many domains. To cover the broad range of graph-data applications including graph classification as well as graph generation, it is desirable to…

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We propose a framework that automatically transforms non-scalable GNNs into precomputation-based GNNs which are efficient and scalable for large-scale graphs. The advantages of our framework are two-fold; 1) it transforms various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seiji Maekawa , Yuya Sasaki , George Fletcher , Makoto Onizuka

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are key tools for graph representation learning, demonstrating strong results across diverse prediction tasks. In this paper, we present Convexified Message-Passing Graph Neural Networks (CGNNs), a novel and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saar Cohen , Noa Agmon , Uri Shaham

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly described as being permutation equivariant with respect to node relabeling in the graph. This symmetry of GNNs is often compared to the translation equivariance of Euclidean convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ningyuan Huang , Ron Levie , Soledad Villar

Graph, as an important data representation, is ubiquitous in many real world applications ranging from social network analysis to biology. How to correctly and effectively learn and extract information from graph is essential for a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaodong Jiang , Ronghang Zhu , Pengsheng Ji , Sheng Li

Graph structured data, specifically text-attributed graphs (TAG), effectively represent relationships among varied entities. Such graphs are essential for semi-supervised node classification tasks. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Kaiwen Dong , Zhichun Guo , Nitesh V. Chawla

Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNNs) offer a promising approach to combining quantum computing with graph-structured data processing. While classical Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are scalable and robust, existing QGNNs often lack…

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