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How can we learn effective node representations on textual graphs? Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that use Language Models (LMs) to encode textual information of graphs achieve state-of-the-art performance in many node classification tasks.…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated strong performance in graph representation learning across various real-world applications. However, they often produce biased predictions caused by sensitive attributes, such as religion or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chengyu Li , Debo Cheng , Guixian Zhang , Yi Li , Shichao Zhang

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

Distilling high-accuracy Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to low-latency multilayer perceptions (MLPs) on graph tasks has become a hot research topic. However, conventional MLP learning relies almost exclusively on graph nodes and fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Taiqiang Wu , Zhe Zhao , Jiahao Wang , Xingyu Bai , Lei Wang , Ngai Wong , Yujiu Yang

Knowledge distillation is a learning paradigm for boosting resource-efficient graph neural networks (GNNs) using more expressive yet cumbersome teacher models. Past work on distillation for GNNs proposed the Local Structure Preserving loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya K. Joshi , Fayao Liu , Xu Xun , Jie Lin , Chuan-Sheng Foo

To bridge the gaps between topology-aware Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and inference-efficient Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLPs), GLNN proposes to distill knowledge from a well-trained teacher GNN into a student MLP. Despite their great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Lirong Wu , 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

Object detection in documents is a key step to automate the structural elements identification process in a digital or scanned document through understanding the hierarchical structure and relationships between different elements. Large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ayan Banerjee , Sanket Biswas , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

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

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

Existing knowledge distillation methods focus on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), where the input samples like images lie in a grid domain, and have largely overlooked graph convolutional networks (GCN) that handle non-grid data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yiding Yang , Jiayan Qiu , Mingli Song , Dacheng Tao , Xinchao Wang

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

Graph unlearning has emerged as a pivotal method to delete information from a pre-trained graph neural network (GNN). One may delete nodes, a class of nodes, edges, or a class of edges. An unlearning method enables the GNN model to comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yash Sinha , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted in advanced AI systems due to their capability of representation learning on graph data. Even though GNN explanation is crucial to increase user trust in the systems, it is challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Tien-Cuong Bui , Wen-syan Li , Sang-Kyun Cha

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance for artificial intelligence tasks. The success behind intelligent systems often relies on large-scale models with high computational complexity and storage costs. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chuanguang Yang , Xinqiang Yu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Recent years have witnessed the great success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in handling graph-related tasks. However, MLPs remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial applications due to their desirable inference efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Tianyu Fan , Stan Z. Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular for graph machine learning and have shown great results on wide node classification tasks. Yet, they are less popular for practical deployments in the industry owing to their scalability challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shichang Zhang , Yozen Liu , Yizhou Sun , Neil Shah

This paper aims to provide a selective survey about knowledge distillation(KD) framework for researchers and practitioners to take advantage of it for developing new optimized models in the deep neural network field. To this end, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jeong-Hoe Ku , JiHun Oh , YoungYoon Lee , Gaurav Pooniwala , SangJeong Lee

Efficient real-time traffic prediction is crucial for reducing transportation time. To predict traffic conditions, we employ a spatio-temporal graph neural network (ST-GNN) to model our real-time traffic data as temporal graphs. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohammad Izadi , Mehran Safayani , Abdolreza Mirzaei

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the dominant paradigm for classifying nodes in a graph, but they have several undesirable attributes stemming from their message passing architecture. Recently, distillation methods succeeded in eliminating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Daniel Winter , Niv Cohen , Yedid Hoshen