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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are deep learning methods which provide the current state of the art performance in node classification tasks. GNNs often assume homophily -- neighboring nodes having similar features and labels--, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liheng Ma , Reihaneh Rabbany , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Graph-level representation learning is the pivotal step for downstream tasks that operate on the whole graph. The most common approach to this problem heretofore is graph pooling, where node features are typically averaged or summed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kaixuan Chen , Jie Song , Shunyu Liu , Na Yu , Zunlei Feng , Gengshi Han , Mingli Song

Graph neural networks have emerged as a powerful model for graph representation learning to undertake graph-level prediction tasks. Various graph pooling methods have been developed to coarsen an input graph into a succinct graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Xiaowei Zhou , Jie Yin , Ivor W. Tsang

Graph pooling is a central component of a myriad of graph neural network (GNN) architectures. As an inheritance from traditional CNNs, most approaches formulate graph pooling as a cluster assignment problem, extending the idea of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Diego Mesquita , Amauri H. Souza , Samuel Kaski

Recent years have witnessed the emergence and flourishing of hierarchical graph pooling neural networks (HGPNNs) which are effective graph representation learning approaches for graph level tasks such as graph classification. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Haoteng Tang , Guixiang Ma , Lifang He , Heng Huang , Liang Zhan

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has concentrated on improving convolutional layers, with little attention paid to developing graph pooling layers. Yet pooling layers can enable GNNs to reason over abstracted groups of nodes instead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Frederik Diehl

Deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are useful models for graph classification and graph-based regression tasks. In these tasks, graph pooling is a critical ingredient by which GNNs adapt to input graphs of varying size and structure. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yu Guang Wang , Ming Li , Zheng Ma , Guido Montufar , Xiaosheng Zhuang , Yanan Fan

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) are a powerful extension of deep learning techniques to graph-structured data problems. We empirically evaluate several pooling methods for GCNNs, and combinations of those graph pooling methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Mark Cheung , John Shi , Lavender Yao Jiang , Oren Wright , José M. F. Moura

Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have recently become a powerful technique for many graph-related tasks including graph classification. Current GNN models apply different graph pooling methods that reduce the number of nodes and edges to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Max Khanov , Esra Akbas

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are attracting growing attention due to their effectiveness and flexibility in modeling a variety of graph-structured data. Exiting GNN architectures usually adopt simple pooling operations (eg. sum, average,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Chenqing Hua , Guillaume Rabusseau , Jian Tang

Theoretical studies on the representation power of GNNs have been centered around understanding the equivalence of GNNs, using WL-Tests for detecting graph isomorphism. In this paper, we argue that such equivalence ignores the accompanying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 P. Krishna Kumar a , Harish G. Ramaswamy

Graph neural networks have achieved great success in learning node representations for graph tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Graph representation learning requires graph pooling to obtain graph representations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Zhengyang Wang , Shuiwang Ji

Representation learning on graphs is a fundamental problem that can be crucial in various tasks. Graph neural networks, the dominant approach for graph representation learning, are limited in their representation power. Therefore, it can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zuoyu Yan , Qi Zhao , Ze Ye , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Graph pooling is a crucial operation for encoding hierarchical structures within graphs. Most existing graph pooling approaches formulate the problem as a node clustering task which effectively captures the graph topology. Conventional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sung Moon Ko , Sungjun Cho , Dae-Woong Jeong , Sehui Han , Moontae Lee , Honglak Lee

Graph pooling has been increasingly recognized as crucial for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to facilitate hierarchical graph representation learning. Existing graph pooling methods commonly consist of two stages: selecting top-ranked nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Chuang Liu , Wenhang Yu , Kuang Gao , Xueqi Ma , Yibing Zhan , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate a robust capability for representation learning on graphs with complex structures, showcasing superior performance in various applications. The majority of existing GNNs employ a graph convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jinlu Wang , Jipeng Guo , Yanfeng Sun , Junbin Gao , Shaofan Wang , Yachao Yang , Baocai Yin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been highly successful for the node classification task. GNNs typically assume graphs are homophilic, i.e. neighboring nodes are likely to belong to the same class. However, a number of real-world graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Rui Fan

Pooling operations have shown to be effective on computer vision and natural language processing tasks. One challenge of performing pooling operations on graph data is the lack of locality that is not well-defined on graphs. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Hongyang Gao , Yi Liu , Shuiwang Ji

With the development of graph convolutional networks (GCN), deep learning methods have started to be used on graph data. In additional to convolutional layers, pooling layers are another important components of deep learning. However, no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Hongyang Gao , Yongjun Chen , Shuiwang Ji

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved strong performance across a range of graph representation learning tasks, yet their adversarial robustness in graph classification remains underexplored compared to node classification. While most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofiane Ennadir , Oleg Smirnov , Yassine Abbahaddou , Lele Cao , Johannes F. Lutzeyer