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Recent studies attempted to utilize multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to solve semi-supervised node classification on graphs, by training a student MLP by knowledge distillation (KD) from a teacher graph neural network (GNN). While previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yong-Min Shin , Won-Yong Shin

The message-passing mechanism helps Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable results on various node classification tasks. Nevertheless, the recursive nodes fetching and aggregation in message-passing cause inference latency when…

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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…

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GNN-to-MLP (G2M) methods have emerged as a promising approach to accelerate Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by distilling their knowledge into simpler Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). These methods bridge the gap between the expressive power of…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on diverse graph mining tasks. Although different GNNs can be unified as the same message passing framework, they learn complementary knowledge from the same graph. Knowledge…

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Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown to be expressive for modeling graph-structured data. Nevertheless, the over-stacked architecture of deep graph models makes it difficult to deploy and rapidly test on mobile or embedded…

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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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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

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…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown exceptional performance in the task of link prediction. Despite their effectiveness, the high latency brought by non-trivial neighborhood data dependency limits GNNs in practical deployments.…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are being increasingly used in many high-stakes tasks, and as a result, there is growing attention on their fairness recently. GNNs have been shown to be unfair as they tend to make discriminatory decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

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…

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Recent advances in graph neural networks (GNNs) have enabled more comprehensive modeling of molecules and molecular systems, thereby enhancing the precision of molecular property prediction and molecular simulations. Nonetheless, as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Filip Ekström Kelvinius , Dimitar Georgiev , Artur Petrov Toshev , Johannes Gasteiger

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely applied in graph data modeling. However, existing GNNs are often trained in a task-driven manner that fails to fully capture the intrinsic nature of the graph structure, resulting in sub-optimal node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhenhua Huang , Kunhao Li , Shaojie Wang , Zhaohong Jia , Wentao Zhu , Sharad Mehrotra

In terms of accuracy, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the best architectural choice for the node classification task. Their drawback in real-world deployment is the latency that emerges from the neighbourhood processing operation. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

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 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

Recent years have witnessed great success in handling graph-related tasks with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Despite their great academic success, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial…

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Recent studies attempted to utilize multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to solve semisupervised node classification on graphs, by training a student MLP by knowledge distillation from a teacher graph neural network (GNN). While previous studies…

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