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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful at solving graph classification tasks, yet applied problems often contain noisy labels. In this work, we study GNN robustness to label noise, demonstrate GNN failure modes when models struggle to…

Label smoothing is a widely studied regularization technique in machine learning. However, its potential for node classification in graph-structured data, spanning homophilic to heterophilic graphs, remains largely unexplored. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jaeseung Heo , Moonjeong Park , Dongwoo Kim

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become mainstream methods for solving the semi-supervised node classification problem. However, due to the uneven location distribution of labeled nodes in the graph, labeled nodes are only accessible to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Weigang Lu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang , Long Jin

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…

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The interdependence between nodes in graphs is key to improve class predictions on nodes and utilized in approaches like Label Propagation (LP) or in Graph Neural Networks (GNN). Nonetheless, uncertainty estimation for non-independent…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful deep learning models designed for graph-structured data, demonstrating effectiveness across a wide range of applications.The softmax function is the most commonly used classifier for semi-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yiming Yang , Jun Liu , Wei Wan

Graph representation learning based on graph neural networks (GNNs) can greatly improve the performance of downstream tasks, such as node and graph classification. However, the general GNN models do not aggregate node information in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Fei Ding , Xiaohong Zhang , Justin Sybrandt , Ilya Safro

Most approaches that tackle the problem of node classification consider nodes to be similar, if they have shared neighbors or are close to each other in the graph. Recent methods for attributed graphs additionally take attributes of…

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Heterophily, or the tendency of connected nodes in networks to have different class labels or dissimilar features, has been identified as challenging for many Graph Neural Network (GNN) models. While the challenges of applying GNNs for node…

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Standard deep learning architectures used for classification generate label predictions with a projection head and softmax activation function. Although successful, these methods fail to leverage the relational information between samples…

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In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a successful tool in a variety of graph-related applications. However, the performance of GNNs can be deteriorated when noisy connections occur in the original graph structures;…

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Graph neural networks based on message-passing mechanisms have achieved advanced results in graph classification tasks. However, their generalization performance degrades when noisy labels are present in the training data. Most existing…

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Multitude of deep learning models have been proposed for node classification in graphs. However, they tend to perform poorly under labeled-data scarcity. Although Few-shot learning for graphs has been introduced to overcome this problem,…

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Recent works reveal that feature or label smoothing lies at the core of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Concretely, they show feature smoothing combined with simple linear regression achieves comparable performance with the carefully designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Wentao Zhang , Mingyu Yang , Zeang Sheng , Yang Li , Wen Ouyang , Yangyu Tao , Zhi Yang , Bin Cui

Graph Neural Networks have emerged as a useful tool to learn on the data by applying additional constraints based on the graph structure. These graphs are often created with assumed intrinsic relations between the entities. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-18 Sunil Kumar Maurya , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the preferred models for node classification in graph data due to their robust capabilities in integrating graph structures and attributes. However, these models heavily depend on a substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Taiyan Zhang , Renchi Yang , Yurui Lai , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) require a relatively large number of labeled nodes and a reliable/uncorrupted graph connectivity structure in order to obtain good performance on the semi-supervised node classification task. The performance of…

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