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To accelerate the training of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) on real-world large-scale sparse graphs, downsampling methods are commonly employed as a preprocessing step. However, the effects of graph sparsity and topological structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qinji Shu , Hang Sheng , Feng Ji , Hui Feng , Bo Hu

Existing efforts are dedicated to designing many topologies and graph-aware strategies for the graph Transformer, which greatly improve the model's representation capabilities. However, manually determining the suitable Transformer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Chao Wang , Jiaxuan Zhao , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Transformers have achieved great success in several domains, including Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. However, its application to real-world graphs is less explored, mainly due to its high computation cost and its poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Weilin Cong , Yanhong Wu , Yuandong Tian , Mengting Gu , Yinglong Xia , Chun-cheng Jason Chen , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Transformer has been popular in recent crowd counting work since it breaks the limited receptive field of traditional CNNs. However, since crowd images always contain a large number of similar patches, the self-attention mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong , Qinnan Shangguan , Deyu Meng

Looped Transformers have shown exceptional neural algorithmic reasoning capability in simulating traditional graph algorithms, but their application to more complex structures like hypergraphs remains underexplored. Hypergraphs generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zekai Huang , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Zhen Zhuang

Graph transformers have gained popularity in various graph-based tasks by addressing challenges faced by traditional Graph Neural Networks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention operations and the extensive layering in graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Reza Shirkavand , Heng Huang

In this paper, we introduce \texttt{IAFormer}, a novel Transformer-based architecture that efficiently integrates pairwise particle interactions through a dynamic sparse attention mechanism. \texttt{IAFormer} has two new mechanisms within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 W. Esmail , A. Hammad , M. Nojiri

Self-attention based Transformer has demonstrated the state-of-the-art performances in a number of natural language processing tasks. Self-attention is able to model long-term dependencies, but it may suffer from the extraction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Guangxiang Zhao , Junyang Lin , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Qi Su , Xu Sun

Efficient Transformers have been developed for long sequence modeling, due to their subquadratic memory and time complexity. Sparse Transformer is a popular approach to improving the efficiency of Transformers by restricting self-attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Aosong Feng , Irene Li , Yuang Jiang , Rex Ying

Traffic forecasting has emerged as a crucial research area in the development of smart cities. Although various neural networks with intricate architectures have been developed to address this problem, they still face two key challenges: i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jianxiang Zhou , Erdong Liu , Wei Chen , Siru Zhong , Yuxuan Liang

Generating robust and reliable correspondences across images is a fundamental task for a diversity of applications. To capture context at both global and local granularity, we propose ASpanFormer, a Transformer-based detector-free matcher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Yurun Tian , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , David Mckinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

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

Spectral-based graph neural networks (SGNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in graph representation learning. However, existing SGNNs are limited in implementing graph filters with rigid transforms (e.g., graph Fourier or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Mingxing Xu , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong , Pascal Frossard

Graphs are central to modeling complex systems in domains such as social networks, molecular chemistry, and neuroscience. While Graph Neural Networks, particularly Graph Convolutional Networks, have become standard tools for graph learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Angelica Liguori , Ettore Ritacco , Pietro Sabatino , Annalisa Socievole

We present ReHub, a novel graph transformer architecture that achieves linear complexity through an efficient reassignment technique between nodes and virtual nodes. Graph transformers have become increasingly important in graph learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tomer Borreda , Daniel Freedman , Or Litany

Recently, Transformers for graph representation learning have become increasingly popular, achieving state-of-the-art performance on a wide-variety of graph datasets, either alone or in combination with message-passing graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ayush Garg

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

Subgraph GNNs enhance message-passing GNNs expressivity by representing graphs as sets of subgraphs, demonstrating impressive performance across various tasks. However, their scalability is hindered by the need to process large numbers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Guy Bar-Shalom , Yam Eitan , Fabrizio Frasca , Haggai Maron

Despite recent successes in natural language processing and computer vision, Transformer suffers from the scalability problem when dealing with graphs. The computational complexity is unacceptable for large-scale graphs, e.g., knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Lingbing Guo , Qiang Zhang , Huajun Chen

Recently the Transformer structure has shown good performances in graph learning tasks. However, these Transformer models directly work on graph nodes and may have difficulties learning high-level information. Inspired by the vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Han Gao , Xu Han , Jiaoyang Huang , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu
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