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Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are a common type of Graph Neural Network (GNN), in which each node's representation is computed recursively by aggregating representations (messages) from its immediate neighbors akin to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Lingxiao Zhao , Wei Jin , Leman Akoglu , Neil Shah

We address two fundamental questions about graph neural networks (GNNs). First, we prove that several important graph properties cannot be computed by GNNs that rely entirely on local information. Such GNNs include the standard message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Vikas K. Garg , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi Jaakkola

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for graph classification and representation learning. However, GNNs tend to suffer from over-smoothing problems and are vulnerable to graph perturbations. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yuzhou Chen , Baris Coskunuzer , Yulia R. Gel

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools for processing graph-based information in various domains. A desirable property of GNNs is transferability, where a trained network can swap in information from a different graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 A. Martina Neuman , Jason J. Bramburger

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in graph-related contexts. It is known that the separation power of GNNs is equivalent to that of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test; hence, GNNs are imperfect at identifying all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ziang Chen , Qiao Zhang , Runzhong Wang

Recent advancements in graph learning have revolutionized the way to understand and analyze data with complex structures. Notably, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), i.e. neural network architectures designed for learning graph representations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yu Huang , Min Zhou , Menglin Yang , Zhen Wang , Muhan Zhang , Jie Wang , Hong Xie , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Despite the remarkable success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), the common belief is that their representation power is limited and that they are at most as expressive as the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) algorithm. In this paper, we argue the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Alejandro Ribeiro

The expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is often analysed via correspondence to the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) algorithm and fragments of first-order logic. Standard GNNs are limited to performing aggregation over immediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Huan Luo , Jonni Virtema

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) learn the representation of graph-structured data based on graph original information, including node features and graph structures, and have shown astonishing improvement in node classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Xiao Liu , Lijun Zhang , Hui Guan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are effective models for representation learning on relational data. However, standard GNNs are limited in their expressive power, as they cannot distinguish graphs beyond the capability of the Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ralph Abboud , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Martin Grohe , Thomas Lukasiewicz

We present GERN, a novel scalable framework for training GNNs in node classification tasks, based on effective resistance, a standard tool in spectral graph theory. Our method progressively refines the GNN weights on a sequence of random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Francesco Bonchi , Claudio Gentile , Francesco Paolo Nerini , André Panisson , Fabio Vitale

Graph neural networks have demonstrated excellent applicability to a wide range of domains, including social networks, biological systems, recommendation systems, and wireless communications. Yet a principled theoretical understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinping Yi

In this paper we cast neural networks defined on graphs as message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) in order to study the distinguishing power of different classes of such models. We are interested in whether certain architectures are able…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Floris Geerts , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a dominant paradigm for machine learning with graphs. Research on GNNs has mainly focused on the family of message passing neural networks (MPNNs). Similar to the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Giannis Nikolentzos , George Dasoulas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Many computer vision and machine learning problems are modelled as learning tasks on graphs where graph neural networks GNNs have emerged as a dominant tool for learning representations of graph structured data A key feature of GNNs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junwei Su , Chuan Wu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively studied for prediction tasks on graphs. As pointed out by recent studies, most GNNs assume local homophily, i.e., strong similarities in local neighborhoods. This assumption however limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Sean Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained prominence in recommendation systems in recent years. By representing the user-item matrix as a bipartite and undirected graph, GNNs have demonstrated their potential to capture short- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Daniele Malitesta , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a dominant approach in graph representation learning, yet they often struggle to capture consistent similarity relationships among graphs. While graph kernel methods such as the Weisfeiler-Lehman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xuyuan Liu , Yinghao Cai , Qihui Yang , Yujun Yan

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are inherently limited in their expressive power. Recent seminal works (Xu et al., 2019; Morris et al., 2019b) introduced the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) hierarchy as a measure of expressive power. Although this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Omri Puny , Derek Lim , Bobak T. Kiani , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are shown to be successful in modeling applications with graph structures. However, training an accurate GNN model requires a large collection of labeled data and expressive features, which might be inaccessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ziniu Hu , Changjun Fan , Ting Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun