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The use of graph convolution in the development of recommender system algorithms has recently achieved state-of-the-art results in the collaborative filtering task (CF). While it has been demonstrated that the graph convolution operation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Edoardo D'Amico , Aonghus Lawlor , Neil Hurley

Recently, transformer architectures for graphs emerged as an alternative to established techniques for machine learning with graphs, such as (message-passing) graph neural networks. So far, they have shown promising empirical results, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Luis Müller , Mikhail Galkin , Christopher Morris , Ladislav Rampášek

Transformers, as the fundamental deep learning architecture, have demonstrated great capability in reasoning. This paper studies the generalizable first-order logical reasoning ability of transformers with their parameterized knowledge and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Tianshi Zheng , Jiazheng Wang , Zihao Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Hang Yin , Zheye Deng , Yangqiu Song , Jianxin Li

HyperGraph Convolutional Neural Networks (HGCNNs) have demonstrated their potential in modeling high-order relations preserved in graph structured data. However, most existing convolution filters are localized and determined by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jiying Zhang , Yuzhao Chen , Xi Xiao , Runiu Lu , Shu-Tao Xia

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle in preserving high-frequency components of nodal signals when dealing with directed graphs. Such components are crucial for modeling flow dynamics, without which a traditional GNN tends to treat a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haoyang Jiang , Jindong Wang , Xingquan Zhu , Yi He

Time-evolving traffic flow forecasting are playing a vital role in intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. However, the dynamic traffic flow forecasting is a highly nonlinear problem with complex temporal-spatial dependencies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhenan Lin , Yuni Lai , Wai Lun Lo , Richard Tai-Chiu Hsung , Harris Sik-Ho Tsang , Xiaoyu Xue , Kai Zhou , Yulin Zhu

We address the problem of identifying a graph structure from the observation of signals defined on its nodes. Fundamentally, the unknown graph encodes direct relationships between signal elements, which we aim to recover from observable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are a class of graphs commonly used in practice, with examples that include electronic circuits, Bayesian networks, and neural architectures. While many effective encoders exist for DAGs, it remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Michael Sun , Orion Foo , Gang Liu , Wojciech Matusik , Jie Chen

Contrastive learning has emerged as a premier method for learning representations with or without supervision. Recent studies have shown its utility in graph representation learning for pre-training. Despite successes, the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Amur Ghose , Yingxue Zhang , Jianye Hao , Mark Coates

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of machine learning tasks over graph data. Existing GNNs usually rely on message passing, i.e., computing node representations by gathering information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Junru Zhou , Cai Zhou , Xiyuan Wang , Pan Li , Muhan Zhang

In this paper we generalise the results on eigenvalues and eigenvectors of unnormalized (combinatorial) Laplacian of two-dimensional grid presented by Edwards:2013 first to a grid graph of any dimension, and second also to other types of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

In this work, we theoretically demonstrate that current graph positional encodings (PEs) are not beneficial and could potentially hurt performance in tasks involving heterophilous graphs, where nodes that are close tend to have different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Michael Ito , Jiong Zhu , Dexiong Chen , Danai Koutra , Jenna Wiens

We introduce a novel harmonic analysis for functions defined on the vertices of a strongly connected directed graph of which the random walk operator is the cornerstone. As a first step, we consider the set of eigenvectors of the random…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Harry Sevi , Gabriel Rilling , Pierre Borgnat

This paper introduces a novel Laplacian matrix aiming to enable the construction of spectral convolutional networks and to extend the signal processing applications for directed graphs. Our proposal is inspired by a Haar-like transformation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Theodor-Adrian Badea , Bogdan Dumitrescu

We propose a probabilistic interpretation of transformers as unrolled inference steps assuming a probabilistic Laplacian Eigenmaps model from the ProbDR framework. Our derivation shows that at initialisation, transformers perform "linear"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Aditya Ravuri , Neil D. Lawrence

While tokenized graph Transformers have demonstrated strong performance in node classification tasks, their reliance on a limited subset of nodes with high similarity scores for constructing token sequences overlooks valuable information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jinsong Chen , Hanpeng Liu , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Transformer-based LLMs demonstrate strong performance on graph reasoning tasks, yet their internal mechanisms remain underexplored. To uncover these reasoning process mechanisms in a fundamental and unified view, we set the basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xinnan Dai , Chung-Hsiang Lo , Kai Guo , Shenglai Zeng , Dongsheng Luo , Jiliang Tang

Graph neural networks based on iterative one-hop message passing have been shown to struggle in harnessing the information from distant nodes effectively. Conversely, graph transformers allow each node to attend to all other nodes directly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yuhui Ding , Antonio Orvieto , Bobby He , Thomas Hofmann

We introduce a novel positional encoding strategy for Transformer-style models, addressing the shortcomings of existing, often ad hoc, approaches. Our framework provides a flexible mapping from the algebraic specification of a domain to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Konstantinos Kogkalidis , Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Vikas Garg

Learning the graph Laplacian from observed data is one of the most investigated and fundamental tasks in Graph Signal Processing (GSP). Different variants of the Laplacian, such as the combinatorial, signless or signed Laplacians have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Stefania Sardellitti