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Graphs with heterophily have been regarded as challenging scenarios for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where nodes are connected with dissimilar neighbors through various patterns. In this paper, we present theoretical understandings of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Junfu Wang , Yuanfang Guo , Liang Yang , Yunhong Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) show strong expressive power on graph data mining, by aggregating information from neighbors and using the integrated representation in the downstream tasks. The same aggregation methods and parameters for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xiaojun Ma , Qin Chen , Yuanyi Ren , Guojie Song , Liang Wang

Clustering holds profound significance in data mining. In recent years, graph convolutional network (GCN) has emerged as a powerful tool for deep clustering, integrating both graph structural information and node attributes. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qiankun Li , Haobing Liu , Ruobing Jiang , Tingting Wang

Homophily is a graph property describing the tendency of edges to connect similar nodes; the opposite is called heterophily. It is often believed that heterophilous graphs are challenging for standard message-passing graph neural networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Oleg Platonov , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on homophilic graph data while being far less impressive when handling non-homophilic graph data due to the inherent low-pass filtering property of GNNs. In general, since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Shuai Zheng , Zhenfeng Zhu , Zhizhe Liu , Youru Li , Yao Zhao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become pivotal tools for a range of graph-based learning tasks. Notably, most current GNN architectures operate under the assumption of homophily, whether explicitly or implicitly. While this underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kun Wang , Guibin Zhang , Xinnan Zhang , Junfeng Fang , Xun Wu , Guohao Li , Shirui Pan , Wei Huang , Yuxuan Liang

Physics-informed Graph Neural Networks have achieved remarkable performance in learning through graph-structured data by mitigating common GNN challenges such as over-smoothing, over-squashing, and heterophily adaption. Despite these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dai Shi , Andi Han , Lequan Lin , Yi Guo , Zhiyong Wang , Junbin Gao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) hold the promise of learning efficient representations of graph-structured data, and one of its most important applications is semi-supervised node classification. However, in this application, GNN frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jiaqi Sun , Lin Zhang , Shenglin Zhao , Yujiu Yang

This paper studies semi-supervised graph classification, a crucial task with a wide range of applications in social network analysis and bioinformatics. Recent works typically adopt graph neural networks to learn graph-level representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Wei Ju , Xiao Luo , Meng Qu , Yifan Wang , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Xian-Sheng Hua , Ming Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on graph-structured data across numerous domains. Their underlying ability to represent nodes as summaries of their vicinities has proven effective for homophilous graphs in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Andrea Cavallo , Claas Grohnfeldt , Michele Russo , Giulio Lovisotto , Luca Vassio

Community search aims to identify a refined set of nodes that are most relevant to a given query, supporting tasks ranging from fraud detection to recommendation. Unlike homophilic graphs, many real-world networks are heterophilic, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Qing Sima , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenjie Zhang

Real-world graphs generally have only one kind of tendency in their connections. These connections are either homophily-prone or heterophily-prone. While graphs with homophily-prone edges tend to connect nodes with the same class (i.e.,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yizhen Zheng , He Zhang , Vincent CS Lee , Yu Zheng , Xiao Wang , Shirui Pan

Graphs are structured data that models complex relations between real-world entities. Heterophilic graphs, where linked nodes are prone to be with different labels or dissimilar features, have recently attracted significant attention and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Chenghua Gong , Yao Cheng , Jianxiang Yu , Can Xu , Caihua Shan , Siqiang Luo , Xiang Li

Relationship between agents can be conveniently represented by graphs. When these relationships have different modalities, they are better modelled by multilayer graphs where each layer is associated with one modality. Such graphs arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) exploit signals from node features and the input graph topology to improve node classification task performance. However, these models tend to perform poorly on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Vijay Lingam , Chanakya Ekbote , Manan Sharma , Rahul Ragesh , Arun Iyer , Sundararajan Sellamanickam

Heterogeneous graphs with heterophily have emerged as a powerful abstraction for modeling complex real-world systems, where nodes of different types and labels interact in diverse and often non-homophilous ways. Despite recent advances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yihan Zhang , Ercan E. Kuruoglu

Self-supervised heterogeneous graph learning (SHGL) has shown promising potential in diverse scenarios. However, while existing SHGL methods share a similar essential with clustering approaches, they encounter two significant limitations:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yujie Mo , Zhihe Lu , Runpeng Yu , Xiaofeng Zhu , Xinchao Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in graph representation learning. Unfortunately, current weight assignment schemes in standard GNNs, such as the calculation based on node degrees or pair-wise representations, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junfu Wang , Yuanfang Guo , Liang Yang , Yunhong Wang

Most existing semi-supervised graph-based clustering methods exploit the supervisory information by either refining the affinity matrix or directly constraining the low-dimensional representations of data points. The affinity matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huaming Ling , Chenglong Bao , Xin Liang , Zuoqiang Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a promising deep learning approach for circumventing many real-world problems on graph-structured data. However, these models usually have at least one of four fundamental limitations: over-smoothing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xun Liu , Alex Hay-Man Ng , Fangyuan Lei , Yikuan Zhang , Zhengmin Li