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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

Recently a variety of methods have been developed to encode graphs into low-dimensional vectors that can be easily exploited by machine learning algorithms. The majority of these methods start by embedding the graph nodes into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

A long-standing goal in deep learning has been to characterize the learning behavior of black-box models in a more interpretable manner. For graph neural networks (GNNs), considerable advances have been made in formalizing what functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , David Wipf , Ruoyu Sun , Junchi Yan

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 gained traction over the past few years for their superior performance in numerous machine learning tasks. Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCN) are a common variant of GNNs that are known to have high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Sannat Singh Bhasin , Vaibhav Holani , Divij Sanjanwala

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are well-suited for learning on homophilous graphs, i.e., graphs in which edges tend to connect nodes of the same type. Yet, achievement of consistent GNN performance on heterophilous graphs remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Andrea Cavallo , Claas Grohnfeldt , Michele Russo , Giulio Lovisotto , Luca Vassio

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations from structured data. Despite their growing popularity and success across various applications, GNNs encounter several challenges that limit their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yassine Abbahaddou

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success, their design largely relies on empirical intuition rather than theoretical understanding. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of GNN behavior through three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qin Jiang , Chengjia Wang , Michael Lones , Wei Pang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in many scenarios with graph-structured data. However, in many real applications, there are three issues when applying GNNs: graphs are unknown, nodes have noisy features, and graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yixiang Shan , Jielong Yang , Xing Liu , Yixing Gao , Hechang Chen , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Interpreting graph neural networks (GNNs) is difficult because message passing mixes signals and internal channels rarely align with human concepts. We study superposition, the sharing of directions by multiple features, directly in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lukas Pertl , Han Xuanyuan , Pietro Liò

Prior work on node classification has shown that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can learn representations that transfer across graphs, when underlying graph properties are shared. For a fixed graph, one would then expect GNNs trained for link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kieran Maguire , Srinandan Dasmahapatra

In this paper, we study using graph neural networks (GNNs) for \textit{multi-node representation learning}, where a representation for a set of more than one node (such as a link) is to be learned. Existing GNNs are mainly designed to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiyuan Wang , Pan Li , Muhan Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used to compute representations of node pairs for downstream tasks such as link prediction. Yet, theoretical understanding of their expressive power has focused almost entirely on graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Veronica Lachi , Francesco Ferrini , Antonio Longa , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini , Manfred Jaeger

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to various fields due to their powerful representations of graph-structured data. Despite the success of GNNs, most existing GNNs are designed to learn node representations on the fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Seongjun Yun , Minbyul Jeong , Sungdong Yoo , Seunghun Lee , Sean S. Yi , Raehyun Kim , Jaewoo Kang , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are effective models for representation learning on relational data. However, standard GNNs are limited in their expressive power, as they cannot distinguish graphs beyond the capability of the Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ralph Abboud , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Martin Grohe , Thomas Lukasiewicz

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

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular models for graph learning problems. GNNs show strong empirical performance in many practical tasks. However, the theoretical properties have not been completely elucidated. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ryoma Sato

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the first choice for learning algorithms on graph data. GNNs promise to integrate (i) node features as well as (ii) edge information in an end-to-end learning algorithm. How does this promise work out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Lukas Faber , Yifan Lu , Roger Wattenhofer