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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited state-of-the-art performance across wide-range of domains such as recommender systems, material design, and drug repurposing. Yet message-passing GNNs suffer from over-squashing -- exponential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Danial Saber , Amirali Salehi-Abari

Graph Neural Networks are powerful models for learning from graph-structured data, yet their effectiveness is often limited by two critical challenges: over-squashing, where information from distant nodes is excessively compressed, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hugo Attali , Nathalie Pernelle , Davide Buscaldi , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Graph Neural Networks are powerful models for learning from graph-structured data, yet their effectiveness is often limited by two critical challenges: over-squashing, where information from distant nodes is excessively compressed, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hugo Attali , Davide Buscaldi , Nathalie Pernelle , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Graph neural networks compute node representations by performing multiple message-passing steps that consist in local aggregations of node features. Having deep models that can leverage longer-range interactions between nodes is hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Alessio Micheli , Domenico Tortorella

The quality of signal propagation in message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs) strongly influences their expressivity as has been observed in recent works. In particular, for prediction tasks relying on long-range interactions, recursive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Kedar Karhadkar , Yu Guang Wang , Uri Alon , Guido Montúfar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) suffer from Oversquashing, which occurs when tasks require long-range interactions. The problem arises from the presence of bottlenecks that limit the propagation of messages among distant nodes. Recently, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kushal Bose , Swagatam Das

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) revolutionize machine learning for graph-structured data, effectively capturing complex relationships. They disseminate information through interconnected nodes, but long-range interactions face challenges known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Singh Akansha

The message-passing paradigm of Graph Neural Networks often struggles with exchanging information across distant nodes typically due to structural bottlenecks in certain graph regions, a limitation known as \textit{over-squashing}. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Langzhang Liang , Fanchen Bu , Zixing Song , Zenglin Xu , Shirui Pan , Kijung Shin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are able to leverage the structure of graph data by passing messages along the edges of the graph. While this allows GNNs to learn features depending on the graph structure, for certain graph topologies it leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Kedar Karhadkar , Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Guido Montúfar

Most graph neural networks (GNNs) use the message passing paradigm, in which node features are propagated on the input graph. Recent works pointed to the distortion of information flowing from distant nodes as a factor limiting the…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) leverage the graph structure to transmit information between nodes, typically through the message-passing mechanism. While these models have found a wide variety of applications, they are known to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Hugh Blayney , Álvaro Arroyo , Xiaowen Dong , Michael M. Bronstein

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular models for machine learning on graphs that typically follow the message-passing paradigm, whereby the feature of a node is updated recursively upon aggregating information over its neighbors. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Federico Barbero , Ameya Velingker , Amin Saberi , Michael Bronstein , Francesco Di Giovanni

Information over-squashing is a phenomenon of inefficient information propagation between distant nodes on networks. It is an important problem that is known to significantly impact the training of graph neural networks (GNNs), as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Jakub Bober , Anthea Monod , Emil Saucan , Kevin N. Webster

Node classification tasks on graphs are addressed via fully-trained deep message-passing models that learn a hierarchy of node representations via multiple aggregations of a node's neighbourhood. While effective on graphs that exhibit a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Alessio Micheli , Domenico Tortorella

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are instances of Graph Neural Networks that leverage the graph to send messages over the edges. This inductive bias leads to a phenomenon known as over-squashing, where a node feature is insensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Francesco Di Giovanni , Lorenzo Giusti , Federico Barbero , Giulia Luise , Pietro Lio' , Michael Bronstein

Graph Echo State Networks (GESN) have already demonstrated their efficacy and efficiency in graph classification tasks. However, semi-supervised node classification brought out the problem of over-smoothing in end-to-end trained deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Domenico Tortorella , Alessio Micheli

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are models that leverage the graph structure to transmit information between nodes, typically through the message-passing operation. While widely successful, this approach is well known to suffer from the…

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been shown to suffer from the phenomenon of over-squashing that causes poor performance for tasks relying on long-range interactions. This can be largely attributed to message passing only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Benjamin Gutteridge , Xiaowen Dong , Michael Bronstein , Francesco Di Giovanni

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved strong performance across various real-world domains. Nevertheless, they suffer from oversquashing, where long-range information is distorted as it is compressed through limited message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tanvir Hossain , Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Lilia Chebbah , Charles Fanning , Esra Akbas

Message passing graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular learning architectures for graph-structured data. However, one problem GNNs experience is oversquashing, where a GNN has difficulty sending information between distant nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mitchell Black , Zhengchao Wan , Amir Nayyeri , Yusu Wang
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