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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle to generalize when graphs exhibit both homophily (same-class connections) and heterophily (different-class connections). Specifically, GNNs tend to underperform for nodes with local homophily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Donald Loveland , Danai Koutra

Graph representation learning aim at integrating node contents with graph structure to learn nodes/graph representations. Nevertheless, it is found that many existing graph learning methods do not work well on data with high heterophily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jincheng Huang , Ping Li , Rui Huang , Chen Na , Acong Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been highly successful for the node classification task. GNNs typically assume graphs are homophilic, i.e. neighboring nodes are likely to belong to the same class. However, a number of real-world graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Rui Fan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in diverse graph learning tasks, particularly on static homophilic graphs. Recent attention has pivoted towards more intricate structures, encompassing (1) static heterophilic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yuchen Yan , Yuzhong Chen , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Zhe Xu , Zhichen Zeng , Lihui Liu , Zhining Liu , Hanghang Tong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promising results across various graph learning tasks, but they often assume homophily, which can result in poor performance on heterophilic graphs. The connected nodes are likely to be from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Kai Zhao , Qiyu Kang , Yang Song , Rui She , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay

The crime forecasting is an important problem as it greatly contributes to urban safety. Typically, the goal of the problem is to predict different types of crimes for each geographical region (like a neighborhood or censor tract) in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Chenyu Wang , Zongyu Lin , Xiaochen Yang , Jiao Sun , Mingxuan Yue , Cyrus Shahabi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown state-of-the-art improvements in node classification tasks on graphs. While these improvements have been largely demonstrated in a multi-class classification scenario, a more general and realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Tianqi Zhao , Ngan Thi Dong , Alan Hanjalic , Megha Khosla

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively studied for prediction tasks on graphs. As pointed out by recent studies, most GNNs assume local homophily, i.e., strong similarities in local neighborhoods. This assumption however limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Sean Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

In representation learning on the graph-structured data, under heterophily (or low homophily), many popular GNNs may fail to capture long-range dependencies, which leads to their performance degradation. To solve the above-mentioned issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mengying Jiang , Guizhong Liu , Yuanchao Su , Xinliang Wu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated success in modeling relational data, especially for data that exhibits homophily: when a connection between nodes tends to imply that they belong to the same class. However, while this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Andreea Deac , Jian Tang

The decoupled Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), a recent development of GCN that decouples the neighborhood aggregation and feature transformation in each convolutional layer, has shown promising performance for graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jinsong Chen , Boyu Li , Kun He

Recently there is a growing focus on graph data, and multi-view graph clustering has become a popular area of research interest. Most of the existing methods are only applicable to homophilous graphs, yet the extensive real-world graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Zichen Wen , Yawen Ling , Yazhou Ren , Tianyi Wu , Jianpeng Chen , Xiaorong Pu , Zhifeng Hao , Lifang He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used on a variety of graph-based machine learning tasks. For node-level tasks, GNNs have strong power to model the homophily property of graphs (i.e., connected nodes are more similar) while their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Lun Du , Xiaozhou Shi , Qiang Fu , Xiaojun Ma , Hengyu Liu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have become a standard approach for semi-supervised node classification, yet practitioners lack clear guidance on when GCNs provide meaningful improvements over simpler baselines. We present a diagnostic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Nischal Subedi , Ember Kerstetter , Winnie Li , Silo Murphy

With the rapid development of the World Wide Web (WWW), heterogeneous graphs (HG) have explosive growth. Recently, heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN) has shown great potential in learning on HG. Current studies of HGNN mainly focus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Jiayan Guo , Lun Du , Wendong Bi , Qiang Fu , Xiaojun Ma , Xu Chen , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Yan Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in graph representation learning. Unfortunately, current weight assignment schemes in standard GNNs, such as the calculation based on node degrees or pair-wise representations, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junfu Wang , Yuanfang Guo , Liang Yang , Yunhong Wang

Recently, neighbor-based contrastive learning has been introduced to effectively exploit neighborhood information for clustering. However, these methods rely on the homophily assumption-that connected nodes share similar class labels and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Liang Peng , Yixuan Ye , Cheng Liu , Hangjun Che , Man-Fai Leung , Si Wu , Hau-San Wong

Graph clustering, an important unsupervised problem, has been shown to be more resistant to advances in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). In addition, almost all clustering methods focus on homophilic graphs and ignore heterophily. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xuanting Xie , Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang , Wenyu Chen , Bingheng Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at analyzing graph-structured data but struggle on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different classes. While this challenge is commonly addressed with specialized GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Harel Mendelman , Haggai Maron , Ronen Talmon

In node classification tasks, graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) have demonstrated competitive performance over traditional methods on diverse graph data. However, it is known that the performance of GCNs degrades with increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yujun Yan , Milad Hashemi , Kevin Swersky , Yaoqing Yang , Danai Koutra