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Graph Transformer, due to its global attention mechanism, has emerged as a new tool in dealing with graph-structured data. It is well recognized that the global attention mechanism considers a wider receptive field in a fully connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yujie Xing , Xiao Wang , Yibo Li , Hai Huang , Chuan Shi

In the field of source code processing, the transformer-based representation models have shown great powerfulness and have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in many tasks. Although the transformer models process the sequential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Directed graphs occur throughout statistical modeling of networks, and exchangeability is a natural assumption when the ordering of vertices does not matter. There is a deep structural theory for exchangeable undirected graphs, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Diana Cai , Nathanael Ackerman , Cameron Freer

This study proposes an unsupervised anomaly detection method for distributed backend service systems, addressing practical challenges such as complex structural dependencies, diverse behavioral evolution, and the absence of labeled data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yun Zi , Ming Gong , Zhihao Xue , Yujun Zou , Nia Qi , Yingnan Deng

This study reports an unintuitive finding that positional encoding enhances learning of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Positional encoding is a high-dimensional representation of time indices on input data. Most famously, positional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Takashi Morita

Transformers have achieved remarkable success across domains, motivating the rise of Graph Transformers (GTs) as attention-based architectures for graph-structured data. A key design choice in GTs is the use of Graph Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Javier Porras-Valenzuela , Zhiyang Wang , Xiaotao Shang , Yusu Wang , Alejandro Ribeiro

Machine learning on graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with applications ranging from drug design to friendship recommendation in social networks. The primary challenge in this domain is finding a way to represent, or encode, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 William L. Hamilton , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

Transformers have proven highly effective across various applications, especially in handling sequential data such as natural languages and time series. However, transformer models often lack clear interpretability, and the success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Wei Shi , Yuan Cao

Real-world dynamic graphs are often directed, with source and destination nodes exhibiting asymmetrical behavioral patterns and temporal dynamics. However, existing dynamic graph architectures largely rely on shared parameters for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tyler Bonnet , Marek Rei

Geometric variations like rotation, scaling, and viewpoint changes pose a significant challenge to visual understanding. One common solution is to directly model certain intrinsic structures, e.g., using landmarks. However, it then becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Xiuyuan Cheng , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu

In the realm of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), two exciting research directions have recently emerged: Subgraph GNNs and Graph Transformers. In this paper, we propose an architecture that integrates both approaches, dubbed Subgraphormer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Guy Bar-Shalom , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Haggai Maron

A general class of unidirectional transforms is presented that can be computed in a distributed manner along an arbitrary routing tree. Additionally, we provide a set of conditions under which these transforms are invertible. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Godwin Shen , Antonio Ortega

Knowledge graph reasoning plays a vital role in various applications and has garnered considerable attention. Recently, path-based methods have achieved impressive performance. However, they may face limitations stemming from constraints in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Junnan Liu , Qianren Mao , Weifeng Jiang , Jianxin Li

The standard notion of the Laplacian of a graph is generalized to the setting of a graph with the extra structure of a ``transmission`` system. A transmission system is a mathematical representation of a means of transmitting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Sylvain E. Cappell , Edward Y. Miller

We propose a combination of a variational autoencoder and a transformer based model which fully utilises graph convolutional and graph pooling layers to operate directly on graphs. The transformer model implements a novel node encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Joshua Mitton , Hans M. Senn , Klaas Wynne , Roderick Murray-Smith

Graph Transformers typically rely on explicit positional or structural encodings and dense global attention to incorporate graph topology. In this work, we show that neither is essential. We introduce HopFormer, a graph Transformer that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sanggeon Yun , Raheeb Hassan , Ryozo Masukawa , Sungheon Jeong , Mohsen Imani

Recently, there has been great success in applying deep neural networks on graph structured data. Most work, however, focuses on either node- or graph-level supervised learning, such as node, link or graph classification or node-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Robin Winter , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Positional encodings enable Transformers to incorporate sequential information, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited to two properties: distance attenuation and translation invariance. Because natural language lacks purely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihan Gu , Ruoyu Chen , Han Zhang , Hua Zhang , Yue Hu

In this paper, we introduce a graph matching method that can account for constraints of arbitrary order, with arbitrary potential functions. Unlike previous decomposition approaches that rely on the graph structures, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 D. Khuê Lê-Huu , Nikos Paragios

This paper proposes a learning model, based on rank-fusion graphs, for general applicability in multimodal prediction tasks, such as multimodal regression and image classification. Rank-fusion graphs encode information from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Icaro Cavalcante Dourado , Salvatore Tabbone , Ricardo da Silva Torres