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Recent advances in integrating positional and structural encodings (PSEs) into graph neural networks (GNNs) have significantly enhanced their performance across various graph learning tasks. However, the general applicability of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Billy Joe Franks , Moshe Eliasof , Semih Cantürk , Guy Wolf , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Sophie Fellenz , Marius Kloft

Recent advancements in large-scale pre-training have shown the potential to learn generalizable representations for downstream tasks. In the graph domain, however, capturing and transferring structural information across different graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jialin Chen , Haolan Zuo , Haoyu Peter Wang , Siqi Miao , Pan Li , Rex Ying

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the standard learning architectures for graphs. GNNs have been applied to numerous domains ranging from quantum chemistry, recommender systems to knowledge graphs and natural language processing. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Anh Tuan Luu , Thomas Laurent , Yoshua Bengio , Xavier Bresson

Graph self-supervised learning seeks to learn effective graph representations without relying on labeled data. Among various approaches, graph autoencoders (GAEs) have gained significant attention for their efficiency and scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Liu , Deyu Bo , Wenxuan Cao , Yuan Fang , Yawen Li , Chuan Shi

Graph Transformers (GTs) facilitate the comprehension of graph-structured data by calculating the self-attention of node pairs without considering node position information. To address this limitation, we introduce an innovative and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kushal Bose , Swagatam Das

Positional Encodings (PEs) are essential for injecting structural information into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Graph Transformers, yet their empirical impact remains insufficiently understood. We introduce a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Florian Grötschla , Jiaqing Xie , Roger Wattenhofer

Graph is a fundamental data structure to model interconnections between entities. Set, on the contrary, stores independent elements. To learn graph representations, current Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) primarily use message passing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xiyuan Wang , Pan Li , Muhan Zhang

We propose a novel positional encoding for learning graph on Transformer architecture. Existing approaches either linearize a graph to encode absolute position in the sequence of nodes, or encode relative position with another node using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wonpyo Park , Woonggi Chang , Donggeon Lee , Juntae Kim , Seung-won Hwang

Graph transformers extend global self-attention to graph-structured data, achieving notable success in graph learning. Recently, random walk structural encoding (RWSE) has been found to further enhance their predictive power by encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Louis Airale , Antonio Longa , Mattia Rigon , Andrea Passerini , Roberto Passerone

Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for effective graph representation learning because they provide position awareness in inherently position-agnostic transformer architectures and increase the expressive capacity of Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Evelyn Choi , Stephanie Jegelka , Jure Leskovec , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph neural networks (GNN) have shown great advantages in many graph-based learning tasks but often fail to predict accurately for a task-based on sets of nodes such as link/motif prediction and so on. Many works have recently proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Haorui Wang , Haoteng Yin , Muhan Zhang , Pan Li

The distinguishing power of graph transformers is closely tied to the choice of positional encoding: features used to augment the base transformer with information about the graph. There are two primary types of positional encoding:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Mitchell Black , Zhengchao Wan , Gal Mishne , Amir Nayyeri , Yusu Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide a powerful and scalable solution for modeling continuous spatial data. However, they often rely on Euclidean distances to construct the input graphs. This assumption can be improbable in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Konstantin Klemmer , Nathan Safir , Daniel B. Neill

Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for building powerful and expressive graph neural networks and graph transformers, as they effectively capture the relative spatial relationships between nodes. Although extensive research has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yinan Huang , Haoyu Wang , Pan Li

We show that viewing graphs as sets of node features and incorporating structural and positional information into a transformer architecture is able to outperform representations learned with classical graph neural networks (GNNs). Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Margot Selosse , Julien Mairal

The local inductive bias of message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs) hampers their ability to exploit key structural information (e.g., connectivity and cycles). Positional encoding (PE) and Persistent Homology (PH) have emerged as two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yogesh Verma , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

A current goal in the graph neural network literature is to enable transformers to operate on graph-structured data, given their success on language and vision tasks. Since the transformer's original sinusoidal positional encodings (PEs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Patrick Soga , David Chiang

Designing effective positional encodings for graphs is key to building powerful graph transformers and enhancing message-passing graph neural networks. Although widespread, using Laplacian eigenvectors as positional encodings faces two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yinan Huang , William Lu , Joshua Robinson , Yu Yang , Muhan Zhang , Stefanie Jegelka , Pan Li

Positional Encoder Graph Neural Networks (PE-GNNs) are among the most effective models for learning from continuous spatial data. However, their predictive distributions are often poorly calibrated, limiting their utility in applications…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for a wide range of node-level graph learning tasks. However, their performance typically depends on random or minimally informed initial feature representations, where poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shiyu Chen , Cencheng Shen , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe
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