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To bridge the gaps between powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLPs), GNN-to-MLP Knowledge Distillation (KD) proposes to distill knowledge from a well-trained teacher GNN into a student MLP. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Lirong Wu , Yunfan Liu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Stan Z. Li

Recently, the teacher-student knowledge distillation framework has demonstrated its potential in training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, due to the difficulty of training over-parameterized GNN models, one may not easily obtain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yuzhao Chen , Yatao Bian , Xi Xiao , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Junzhou Huang

Knowledge representation learning has been commonly adopted to incorporate knowledge graph (KG) into various online services. Although existing knowledge representation learning methods have achieved considerable performance improvement,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Binbin Hu , Zhiyang Hu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Chuan Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve high performance but can be opaque to humans, making it difficult to understand and compare the many proposed architectures. While existing explainability methods attribute individual predictions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Debolina Halder Lina , Arlei Silva

Graph neural networks (GNNs) can efficiently process text-attributed graphs (TAGs) due to their message-passing mechanisms, but their training heavily relies on the human-annotated labels. Moreover, the complex and diverse local topologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xing Wei , Chunchun Chen , Rui Fan , Xiaofeng Cao , Sourav Medya , Wei Ye

Recent works have introduced GNN-to-MLP knowledge distillation (KD) frameworks to combine both GNN's superior performance and MLP's fast inference speed. However, existing KD frameworks are primarily designed for node classification within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Tianjun Yao , Jiaqi Sun , Defu Cao , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an emerging research field. This specialized Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture is capable of processing graph structured data and bridges the gap between graph processing and Deep Learning (DL). As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jana Vatter , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Though convolutional neural networks are widely used in different tasks, lack of generalization capability in the absence of sufficient and representative data is one of the challenges that hinder their practical application. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li , Lap-pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized graph-based machine learning, but their heavy computational demands pose challenges for latency-sensitive edge devices in practical industrial applications. In response, a new wave of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Weigang Lu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang

The increasing amount of graph data places requirements on the efficient training of graph neural networks (GNNs). The emerging graph distillation (GD) tackles this challenge by distilling a small synthetic graph to replace the real large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yang Liu , Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been a prevailing technique for tackling various analysis tasks on graph data. A key premise for the remarkable performance of GNNs relies on complete and trustworthy initial graph descriptions (i.e., node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Cuiying Huo , Di Jin , Yawen Li , Dongxiao He , Yu-Bin Yang , Lingfei Wu

Recent success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in modeling complex graph-structured data has fueled interest in deploying them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, their substantial computational and memory demands present ongoing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Can Cui , Zilong Fu , Penghe Huang , Yuanyuan Li , Wu Deng , Dongyan Li

Although the convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved excellent performance in vision tasks by extracting the intra-sample representation, it will take a higher training expense because of stacking numerous convolutional layers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that plays a crucial role in information extraction, question answering, and knowledge-based systems. Traditional deep learning-based NER models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Heming Zhang , Wenyu Li , Di Huang , Yinjie Tang , Yixin Chen , Philip Payne , Fuhai Li

GNNs, like other deep learning models, are data and computation hungry. There is a pressing need to scale training of GNNs on large datasets to enable their usage on low-resource environments. Graph distillation is an effort in that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mridul Gupta , Sahil Manchanda , Hariprasad Kodamana , Sayan Ranu

One of the hot topics in machine learning is the field of GNN. The complexity of graph data has imposed significant challenges on existing machine learning algorithms. Recently, many studies on extending deep learning approaches for graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 László Kovács , Ali Jlidi

Machine learning on graph structured data has attracted much research interest due to its ubiquity in real world data. However, how to efficiently represent graph data in a general way is still an open problem. Traditional methods use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jiaqi Ma , Qiaozhu Mei

Existing knowledge distillation methods on graph neural networks (GNNs) are almost offline, where the student model extracts knowledge from a powerful teacher model to improve its performance. However, a pre-trained teacher model is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jiongyu Guo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable results in various real-world applications, including drug discovery, object detection, social media analysis, recommender systems, and text classification. In contrast to their vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nícolas Roque dos Santos , Dawon Ahn , Diego Minatel , Alneu de Andrade Lopes , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in collaborative recommendation through their ability to conduct high-order representation smoothing, effectively capturing structural information within users' interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Guoxuan Chen , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang