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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many graph analysis tasks such as node classification and link prediction. However, important unsupervised problems on graphs, such as graph clustering, have proved more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Anton Tsitsulin , John Palowitch , Bryan Perozzi , Emmanuel Müller

Downsampling produces coarsened, multi-resolution representations of data and it is used, for example, to produce lossy compression and visualization of large images, reduce computational costs, and boost deep neural representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Davide Bacciu , Alessio Conte , Francesco Landolfi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven effective for learning from graph-structured data through their neighborhood-based message passing framework. Many hierarchical graph clustering pooling methods modify this framework by introducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yipeng Zhang , Longlong Li , Kelin Xia

Graph pooling, which compresses a whole graph into a smaller coarsened graph, is an essential component of graph representation learning. To efficiently compress a given graph, graph pooling methods often drop their nodes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hanjin Kim , Jiseong Park , Seojin Kim , Jueun Choi , Doheon Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Self-supervised graph representation learning has recently shown considerable promise in a range of fields, including bioinformatics and social networks. A large number of graph contrastive learning approaches have shown promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Zhengyang Mao , Ziyue Qiao , Yifang Qin , Xiao Luo , Hui Xiong , Ming Zhang

In Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), hierarchical pooling operators generate local summaries of the data by coarsening the graph structure and the vertex features. While considerable attention has been devoted to analyzing the expressive power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Veronica Lachi

In this paper we propose a pooling approach for convolutional information processing on graphs relying on the theory of graphons and limits of dense graph sequences. We present three methods that exploit the induced graphon representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Alejandro Parada-Mayorga , Zhiyang Wang , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

We introduce in this paper a new summarization method for large graphs. Our summarization approach retains only a user-specified proportion of the neighbors of each node in the graph. Our main aim is to simplify large graphs so that they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Abd Errahmane Kiouche , Julien Baste , Mohammed Haddad , Hamida Seba

Graph embedding, representing local and global neighborhood information by numerical vectors, is a crucial part of the mathematical modeling of a wide range of real-world systems. Among the embedding algorithms, random walk-based algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Sarmad N. Mohammed , Semra Gündüç

Graph property prediction is drawing increasing attention in the recent years due to the fact that graphs are one of the most general data structures since they can contain an arbitrary number of nodes and connections between them, and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Eric Alcaide

Advanced methods of applying deep learning to structured data such as graphs have been proposed in recent years. In particular, studies have focused on generalizing convolutional neural networks to graph data, which includes redefining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Junhyun Lee , Inyeop Lee , Jaewoo Kang

We introduce BN-Pool, the first clustering-based pooling method for Graph Neural Networks that adaptively determines the number of supernodes in a coarsened graph. BN-Pool leverages a generative model based on a Bayesian nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daniele Castellana , Filippo Maria Bianchi

In several machine learning tasks for graph structured data, the graphs under consideration may be composed of a varying number of nodes. Therefore, it is necessary to design pooling methods that aggregate the graph representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Effrosyni Simou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are one of the most popular approaches to using deep learning on graph-structured data, and they have shown state-of-the-art performances on a variety of tasks. However, according to a recent study, a careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jihoon Ko , Taehyung Kwon , Kijung Shin , Juho Lee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have enabled major advances in image classification through convolution and pooling. In particular, image pooling transforms a connected discrete lattice into a reduced lattice with the same connectivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Stevan Stanovic , Benoit Gaüzère , Luc Brun

We study the problem of graph coarsening within the Gromov-Wasserstein geometry. Specifically, we propose two algorithms that leverage a novel representation of the distortion induced by merging pairs of nodes. The first method, termed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Carlos A. Taveras , Santiago Segarra , César A. Uribe

Pooling is one of the main elements in convolutional neural networks. The pooling reduces the size of the feature map, enabling training and testing with a limited amount of computation. This paper proposes a new pooling method named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Junhyuk Hyun , Hongje Seong , Euntai Kim

Data clustering with uneven distribution in high level noise is challenging. Currently, HDBSCAN is considered as the SOTA algorithm for this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm based on what we call graph of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhangyang Gao , Haitao Lin , Stan. Z Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for graph classification. One important operation for GNNs is the downsampling or pooling that can learn effective embeddings from the node representations. In this paper, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zhehan Zhao , Lu Bai , Lixin Cui , Ming Li , Yue Wang , Lixiang Xu , Edwin R. Hancock