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Modelling long-range dependencies is critical for scene understanding tasks in computer vision. Although convolution neural networks (CNNs) have excelled in many vision tasks, they are still limited in capturing long-range structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Li Zhang , Mohan Chen , Anurag Arnab , Xiangyang Xue , Philip H. S. Torr

Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are often criticized for their limited expressiveness, issues like over-smoothing and over-squashing, and challenges in capturing long-range dependencies. Conversely, Graph Transformers (GTs) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuankai Luo , Lei Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

Despite the success of Transformer models in vision and language tasks, they often learn knowledge from enormous data implicitly and cannot utilize structured input data directly. On the other hand, structured learning approaches such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xuehai He , Xin Eric Wang

Recent advances in deep learning have established Transformer architectures as the predominant modeling paradigm. Central to the success of Transformers is the self-attention mechanism, which scores the similarity between query and key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jie Zhang , Mao-Hsuan Mao , Bo-Wei Chiu , Min-Te Sun

This thesis presents a local-to-global perspective on graph neural networks (GNN), the leading architecture to process graph-structured data. After categorizing GNN into local Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNN) and global Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chen Cai

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) and Transformers share significant similarities in their encoding strategies for interacting with features from nodes of interest, where Transformers use query-key scores and GNNs use edges. Compared to GNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaxin Qi , Yan Cui , Jinli Ou , Jianqiang Huang , Gaogang Xie

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated their advantages across a wide range of tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism in GTs overlooks the graph's inductive biases, particularly biases related to structure, which are crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Chuang Liu , Zelin Yao , Yibing Zhan , Xueqi Ma , Shirui Pan , Wenbin Hu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are deep learning methods which provide the current state of the art performance in node classification tasks. GNNs often assume homophily -- neighboring nodes having similar features and labels--, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liheng Ma , Reihaneh Rabbany , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Recently, implicit graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed to capture long-range dependencies in underlying graphs. In this paper, we introduce and justify two weaknesses of implicit GNNs: the constrained expressiveness due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Juncheng Liu , Bryan Hooi , Kenji Kawaguchi , Xiaokui Xiao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown success in learning from graph structured data containing node/edge feature information, with application to social networks, recommendation, fraud detection and knowledge graph reasoning. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xiang Song , Runjie Ma , Jiahang Li , Muhan Zhang , David Paul Wipf

It has been observed that message-passing graph neural networks (GNN) sometimes struggle to maintain a healthy balance between the efficient/scalable modeling of long-range dependencies across nodes while avoiding unintended consequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yongyi Yang , Tang Liu , Yangkun Wang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf

Graph Transformers (GTs) show considerable potential in graph representation learning. The architecture of GTs typically integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with global attention mechanisms either in parallel or as a precursor to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Gang Wu , Zhengwei Wang

Real-time particle transverse momentum ($p_T$) estimation in high-energy physics demands algorithms that are both efficient and accurate under strict hardware constraints. Static machine learning models degrade under high pileup and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Md Abrar Jahin , Shahriar Soudeep , M. F. Mridha , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar , Md. Abdul Hamid

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are widely used for learning on graphs, but their ability to process long-range information is limited by the phenomenon of oversquashing. This limitation has led some researchers to advocate Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yaaqov Mishayev , Yonatan Sverdlov , Tal Amir , Nadav Dym

Existing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) compute the message exchange between nodes by either aggregating uniformly (convolving) the features of all the neighboring nodes, or by applying a non-uniform score (attending) to the features. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Adrián Javaloy , Pablo Sanchez-Martin , Amit Levi , Isabel Valera

Despite that going deep has proven successful in many neural architectures, the existing graph transformers are relatively shallow. In this work, we explore whether more layers are beneficial to graph transformers, and find that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haiteng Zhao , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Furu Wei

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

Popular graph neural networks are shallow models, despite the success of very deep architectures in other application domains of deep learning. This reduces the modeling capacity and leaves models unable to capture long-range relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andreas Roth , Thomas Liebig

Recently the Transformer structure has shown good performances in graph learning tasks. However, these Transformer models directly work on graph nodes and may have difficulties learning high-level information. Inspired by the vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Han Gao , Xu Han , Jiaoyang Huang , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu