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Various recent proposals increase the distinguishing power of Graph Neural Networks GNNs by propagating features between $k$-tuples of vertices. The distinguishing power of these "higher-order'' GNNs is known to be bounded by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pablo Barceló , Floris Geerts , Juan Reutter , Maksimilian Ryschkov

The pairwise interaction paradigm of graph machine learning has predominantly governed the modelling of relational systems. However, graphs alone cannot capture the multi-level interactions present in many complex systems and the expressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Cristian Bodnar , Fabrizio Frasca , Yu Guang Wang , Nina Otter , Guido Montúfar , Pietro Liò , Michael Bronstein

Recently, subgraphs-enhanced Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) have been introduced to enhance the expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which was proved to be not higher than the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman isomorphism test. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Michele Guerra , Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Characterizing the separation power of graph neural networks (GNNs) provides an understanding of their limitations for graph learning tasks. Results regarding separation power are, however, usually geared at specific GNN architectures, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Floris Geerts , Juan L. Reutter

Message passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide a powerful modeling framework for relational data. However, the expressive power of existing GNNs is upper-bounded by the 1-Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) graph isomorphism test, which means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jiaxuan You , Jonathan Gomes-Selman , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

Designing expressive Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a fundamental topic in the graph learning community. So far, GNN expressiveness has been primarily assessed via the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) hierarchy. However, such an expressivity measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bohang Zhang , Jingchu Gai , Yiheng Du , Qiwei Ye , Di He , Liwei Wang

The irreducible complexity of natural phenomena has led Graph Neural Networks to be employed as a standard model to perform representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. While their capacity to capture local and global patterns is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lorenzo Giusti

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in handling graph-structured data but often underperform in link prediction tasks compared to classical methods, mainly due to the limitations of the commonly used message-passing principle. Notably, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Niloofar Azizi , Nils Kriege , Horst Bischof

Since the Message Passing (Graph) Neural Networks (MPNNs) have a linear complexity with respect to the number of nodes when applied to sparse graphs, they have been widely implemented and still raise a lot of interest even though their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Muhammet Balcilar , Pierre Héroux , Benoit Gaüzère , Pascal Vasseur , Sébastien Adam , Paul Honeine

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the most widely adopted model in graph-structured data oriented learning and representation. Despite their extraordinary success in real-world applications, understanding their working mechanism by theory is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are known to match the distinguishing power of the 1-Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) test, and the resulting partitions coincide with the unfolding tree equivalence classes of graphs. Preserving this equivalence, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Silvia Beddar-Wiesing , Alice Moallemy-Oureh

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are deep learning architectures for machine learning problems on graphs. It has recently been shown that the expressiveness of GNNs can be characterised precisely by the combinatorial Weisfeiler-Leman algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Martin Grohe

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used for graph representation learning in many application domains. The expressiveness of vanilla GNNs is upper-bounded by 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) test as they operate on rooted subtrees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jiaxing Xu , Aihu Zhang , Qingtian Bian , Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Yiping Ke

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance on various graph learning tasks, including recommendation, where they leverage user-item collaborative filtering signals in graphs. However, theoretical formulations of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xuheng Cai , Lianghao Xia , Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as prominent models for representation learning on graph structured data. GNNs follow an approach of message passing analogous to 1-dimensional Weisfeiler Lehman (1-WL) test for graph isomorphism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Mohammed Haroon Dupty , Wee Sun Lee

Knowledge graphs, modeling multi-relational data, improve numerous applications such as question answering or graph logical reasoning. Many graph neural networks for such data emerged recently, often outperforming shallow architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Pablo Barcelo , Mikhail Galkin , Christopher Morris , Miguel Romero Orth

Graph neural networks (GNNs), in general, are built on the assumption of a static set of features characterizing each node in a graph. This assumption is often violated in practice. Existing methods partly address this issue through feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shubham Gupta , Sahil Manchanda , Sayan Ranu , Srikanta Bedathur

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) face fundamental limitations in expressivity and capturing structural heterogeneity. Standard message-passing architectures are constrained by the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) test, unable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Asela Hevapathige , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Asiri Wijesinghe , Saman Halgamuge

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a broad class of connectionist models for graph processing. Recent studies have shown that GNNs can approximate any function on graphs, modulo the equivalence relation on graphs defined by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Monica Bianchini , Maria Lucia Sampoli , Franco Scarselli

We propose a Graph Neural Network with greater expressive power than commonly used GNNs - not constrained to only differentiate between graphs that Weisfeiler-Lehman test recognizes to be non-isomorphic. We use a graph attention network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Stanisław Purgał