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In this work we design graph neural network architectures that capture optimal approximation algorithms for a large class of combinatorial optimization problems, using powerful algorithmic tools from semidefinite programming (SDP).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Morris Yau , Nikolaos Karalias , Eric Lu , Jessica Xu , Stefanie Jegelka

We consider the optimisation problem of adding $k$ links to a given network, such that the resulting effective graph resistance is as small as possible. The problem was recently proven to be NP-hard, such that optimal solutions obtained…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Massimo A. Achterberg , Robert E. Kooij

There has been a recent explosion in the size of stored data, partially due to advances in storage technology, and partially due to the growing popularity of cloud-computing and the vast quantities of data generated. This motivates the need…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-06 Isabelle Stanton

We analyze the performance of graph neural network (GNN) architectures from the perspective of random graph theory. Our approach promises to complement existing lenses on GNN analysis, such as combinatorial expressive power and worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Drake Brown , Trevor Garrity , Kaden Parker , Jason Oliphant , Stone Carson , Cole Hanson , Zachary Boyd

Physics-inspired graph neural networks (PI-GNNs) have been utilized as an efficient unsupervised framework for relaxing combinatorial optimization problems encoded through a specific graph structure and loss, reflecting dependencies between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Martin Krutský , Gustav Šír , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Georgios Korpas

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

The multicut problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with diverse applications in fields such as bioinformatics, data mining and computer vision. Graph neural networks have been defined for the multicut problem but can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jannik Irmai , Lucas Fabian Naumann , Bjoern Andres

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to process data associated with graphs. They are finding an increasing range of applications; however, as with other modern machine learning techniques, their theoretical understanding is limited.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-23 O. Duranthon , L. Zdeborová

In this work, we propose a Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCN) based scheduling algorithm for adhoc networks. In particular, we consider a generalized interference model called the $k$-tolerant conflict graph model and design an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 S. Ramakrishnan , Jaswanthi Mandalapu , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru , Bhavesh Jain , Eitan Altman

Graph neural networks have become a staple in problems addressing learning and analysis of data defined over graphs. However, several results suggest an inherent difficulty in extracting better performance by increasing the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Recently, there have been some breakthroughs in graph analysis by applying the graph neural networks (GNNs) following a neighborhood aggregation scheme, which demonstrate outstanding performance in many tasks. However, we observe that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Hanchen Wang , Defu Lian , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Xiangjian He , Yiguang Lin , Xuemin Lin

While (message-passing) graph neural networks have clear limitations in approximating permutation-equivariant functions over graphs or general relational data, more expressive, higher-order graph neural networks do not scale to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Christopher Morris , Gaurav Rattan , Sandra Kiefer , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in tackling combinatorial optimization problems. However, existing methods still suffer from limited accuracy when addressing that on complex graphs and exhibit poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuyao Long

Machine learning on graphs, especially using graph neural networks (GNNs), has seen a surge in interest due to the wide availability of graph data across a broad spectrum of disciplines, from life to social and engineering sciences. Despite…

This paper presents the results of an experimental study of graph partitioning. We describe a new heuristic technique, path optimization, and its application to two variations of graph partitioning: the max_cut problem and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Jonathan Berry , Mark Goldberg

The ubiquity of large-scale graphs in node-classification tasks significantly hinders the real-world applications of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Node sampling, graph coarsening, and dataset condensation are effective strategies for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mucong Ding , Yinhan He , Jundong Li , Furong Huang

A theoretical performance analysis of the graph neural network (GNN) is presented. For classification tasks, the neural network approach has the advantage in terms of flexibility that it can be employed in a data-driven manner, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Tatsuro Kawamoto , Masashi Tsubaki , Tomoyuki Obuchi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

In this paper, from a theoretical perspective, we study how powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) can be for learning approximation algorithms for combinatorial problems. To this end, we first establish a new class of GNNs that can solve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Ryoma Sato , Makoto Yamada , Hisashi Kashima

We present a novel neural architecture to solve graph optimization problems where the solution consists of arbitrary node labels, allowing us to solve hard problems like graph coloring. We train our model using reinforcement learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Lukas Gianinazzi , Maximilian Fries , Nikoli Dryden , Tal Ben-Nun , Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler