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Knowledge distillation (KD) techniques have emerged as a powerful tool for transferring expertise from complex teacher models to lightweight student models, particularly beneficial for deploying high-performance models in…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have advanced recommender systems by modeling interaction relationships. However, existing graph-based recommenders rely on sparse ID features and do not fully exploit textual information, resulting in low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hailong Luo , Bin Wu , Hongyong Jia , Qingqing Zhu , Lianlei Shan

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) with the powerful capacity to explore graph-structural data has gained noticeable success in recent years. Nonetheless, most of the existing GCN-based models suffer from the notorious over-smoothing issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zhaoliang Chen , Zhihao Wu , Zhenghong Lin , Shiping Wang , Claudia Plant , Wenzhong Guo

Despite the recent success of Graph Neural Networks, it remains challenging to train a GNN on large graphs with millions of nodes and billions of edges, which are prevalent in many graph-based applications. Traditional sampling-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zheng Chai , Guangji Bai , Liang Zhao , Yue Cheng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in domains like social networks and biological systems. However, the locality assumption of GNNs, which limits information exchange to neighboring nodes, hampers their ability to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Tingting Dan , Jiaqi Ding , Ziquan Wei , Shahar Z Kovalsky , Minjeong Kim , Won Hwa Kim , Guorong Wu

In representation learning on the graph-structured data, under heterophily (or low homophily), many popular GNNs may fail to capture long-range dependencies, which leads to their performance degradation. To solve the above-mentioned issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mengying Jiang , Guizhong Liu , Yuanchao Su , Xinliang Wu

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are \emph{discriminative models} that directly model the class posterior $p(y|\mathbf{x})$ for semi-supervised classification of graph data. While being effective, as a representation learning approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tianchun Wang , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Xiang Zhang , Jie Chen

We present Adaptive Multi-layer Contrastive Graph Neural Networks (AMC-GNN), a self-supervised learning framework for Graph Neural Network, which learns feature representations of sample data without data labels. AMC-GNN generates two graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shuhao Shi , Pengfei Xie , Xu Luo , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Jian Chen , Bin Yan

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown superior performance on diverse applications on real-world datasets. To improve the model capacity and alleviate the over-smoothing problem, several methods proposed to incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Lanning Wei , Huan Zhao , Zhiqiang He

Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representation learning on graphs, facilitating various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhimeng Guo , Teng Xiao , Zongyu Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential in high-stakes domains such as drug discovery, yet their black-box nature remains a significant barrier to trustworthiness. While self-explainable GNNs attempt to bridge this gap, they…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) model nonlinear representations in graph data with applications in distributed agent coordination, control, and planning among others. Current GNN architectures assume ideal scenarios and ignore link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi , Alejandro Ribeiro

Using graph models with relational information in recommender systems has shown promising results. Yet, most methods are transductive, i.e., they are based on dimensionality reduction architectures. Hence, they require heavy retraining…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Theis E. Jendal , Matteo Lissandrini , Peter Dolog , Katja Hose

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown impressive performance in recommender systems, particularly in collaborative filtering (CF). The key lies in aggregating neighborhood information on a user-item interaction graph to enhance user/item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-22 An Zhang , Wenchang Ma , Pengbo Wei , Leheng Sheng , Xiang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for supervised machine learning over graph-structured data, while sampling-based node representation learning is widely utilized in unsupervised learning. However, scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Vipul Gupta , Xin Chen , Ruoyun Huang , Fanlong Meng , Jianjun Chen , Yujun Yan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved strong performance in various applications. In the real world, network data is usually formed in a streaming fashion. The distributions of patterns that refer to neighborhood information of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Junshan Wang , Guojie Song , Yi Wu , Liang Wang

Graph Nerual Networks (GNNs) are effective models in graph embedding. It extracts shallow features and neighborhood information by aggregating neighbor information to learn the embedding representation of different nodes. However, the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kejia Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) work remarkably well in semi-supervised node regression, yet a rigorous theory explaining when and why they succeed remains lacking. To address this gap, we study an aggregate-and-readout model that encompasses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Juntong Chen , Claire Donnat , Olga Klopp , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a pivotal research area in recommender systems that capitalizes on collaborative similarities between users and items to provide personalized recommendations. With the remarkable achievements of node…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Xiao Luo , Yiyang Gu , Zhiping Xiao , Ming Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on graph learning tasks, but training on large-scale networks remains computationally challenging. Transferability results show that GNNs with fixed weights can generalize from smaller…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Haoyu Wang , Renyuan Ma , Gonzalo Mateos , Luana Ruiz