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Graph Transformers (GTs) facilitate the comprehension of graph-structured data by calculating the self-attention of node pairs without considering node position information. To address this limitation, we introduce an innovative and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kushal Bose , Swagatam Das

We introduce a new class of auto-encoders for directed graphs, motivated by a direct extension of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm to pairs of node labels. The proposed model learns pairs of interpretable latent representations for the nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Georgios Kollias , Vasileios Kalantzis , Tsuyoshi Idé , Aurélie Lozano , Naoki Abe

Recent advancements in Graph Neural Networks have led to state-of-the-art performance on graph representation learning. However, the majority of existing works process directed graphs by symmetrization, which causes loss of directional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Jie Zhang , Bo Hui , Po-Wei Harn , Min-Te Sun , Wei-Shinn Ku

Directed graphs naturally model systems with asymmetric, ordered relationships, essential to applications in biology, transportation, social networks, and visual understanding. Generating such graphs enables tasks such as simulation, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alba Carballo-Castro , Manuel Madeira , Yiming Qin , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

A foundation model like GPT elicits many emergent abilities, owing to the pre-training with broad inclusion of data and the use of the powerful Transformer architecture. While foundation models in natural languages are prevalent, can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziyuan Tang , Jie Chen

Graphs arise naturally in many real-world applications including social networks, recommender systems, ontologies, biology, and computational finance. Traditionally, machine learning models for graphs have been mostly designed for static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Seyed Mehran Kazemi , Rishab Goel , Kshitij Jain , Ivan Kobyzev , Akshay Sethi , Peter Forsyth , Pascal Poupart

Transformers flexibly operate over sets of real-valued vectors representing task-specific entities and their attributes, where each vector might encode one word-piece token and its position in a sequence, or some piece of information that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Cameron Diao , Ricky Loynd

Predicting pedestrian motion trajectories is crucial for path planning and motion control of autonomous vehicles. Accurately forecasting crowd trajectories is challenging due to the uncertain nature of human motions in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yu Liu , Yuexin Zhang , Kunming Li , Yongliang Qiao , Stewart Worrall , You-Fu Li , He Kong

We consider spectral methods that uncover hidden structures in directed networks. We establish and exploit connections between node reordering via (a) minimizing an objective function and (b) maximizing the likelihood of a random graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Xue Gong , Desmond John Higham , Konstantinos Zygalakis

To address the peculiarities of directed and/or signed graphs, new Laplacian operators have emerged. For instance, in the case of directionality, we encounter the magnetic operator, dilation (which is underexplored), operators based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bruno Messias Farias de Resende

Directed graphs are widely used to model asymmetric relationships in real-world systems. However, existing directed graph neural networks often struggle to jointly capture directional semantics and global structural patterns due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jiayu Fang , Zhiqi Shao , S T Boris Choy , Junbin Gao

While a considerable amount of semantic parsing approaches have employed RNN architectures for code generation tasks, there have been only few attempts to investigate the applicability of Transformers for this task. Including hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Klaudia-Doris Thellmann , Bernhard Stadler , Ricardo Usbeck , Jens Lehmann

Graph transformers are a recent advancement in machine learning, offering a new class of neural network models for graph-structured data. The synergy between transformers and graph learning demonstrates strong performance and versatility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ahsan Shehzad , Feng Xia , Shagufta Abid , Ciyuan Peng , Shuo Yu , Dongyu Zhang , Karin Verspoor

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Sanghyun Yoo , Young-Seok Kim , Kang Hyun Lee , Kuhwan Jeong , Junhwi Choi , Hoshik Lee , Young Sang Choi

Recently, Transformer model, which has achieved great success in many artificial intelligence fields, has demonstrated its great potential in modeling graph-structured data. Till now, a great variety of Transformers has been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Erxue Min , Runfa Chen , Yatao Bian , Tingyang Xu , Kangfei Zhao , Wenbing Huang , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Sophia Ananiadou , Yu Rong

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland

Fully connected Graph Transformers (GT) have rapidly become prominent in the static graph community as an alternative to Message-Passing models, which suffer from a lack of expressivity, oversquashing, and under-reaching. However, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yannis Karmim , Marc Lafon , Raphael Fournier S'niehotta , Nicolas Thome

Graph transformation that predicts graph transition from one mode to another is an important and common problem. Despite much progress in developing advanced graph transformation techniques in recent years, the fundamental assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Shiyu Wang , Guangji Bai , Qingyang Zhu , Zhaohui Qin , Liang Zhao

Transformers are arguably the main workhorse in recent Natural Language Processing research. By definition a Transformer is invariant with respect to reordering of the input. However, language is inherently sequential and word order is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Philipp Dufter , Martin Schmitt , Hinrich Schütze

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in time series modeling, yet their internal mechanisms remain opaque. This work demystifies the Transformer encoder by establishing its fundamental equivalence to a Graph Convolutional Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chen Zhang , Weixin Bu , Wendong Xu , Runsheng Yu , Yik-Chung Wu , Ngai Wong