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Knowledge distillation (KD) has demonstrated its effectiveness to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where its goal is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kaituo Feng , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) techniques have emerged as a powerful tool for transferring expertise from complex teacher models to lightweight student models, particularly beneficial for deploying high-performance models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Paul Agbaje , Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Pranali Khose , Ebelechukwu Nwafor , Habeeb Olufowobi

Existing knowledge distillation methods on graph neural networks (GNNs) are almost offline, where the student model extracts knowledge from a powerful teacher model to improve its performance. However, a pre-trained teacher model is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jiongyu Guo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Data-free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) is a method that constructs pseudo-samples using a generator without real data, and transfers knowledge from a teacher model to a student by enforcing the student to overcome dimensional differences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yuang Jia , Xiaojuan Shan , Jun Xia , Guancheng Wan , Yuchen Zhang , Wenke Huang , Mang Ye , Stan Z. Li

Graph unlearning methods aim to efficiently remove the impact of sensitive data from trained GNNs without full retraining, assuming that deleted information cannot be recovered. In this work, we challenge this assumption by introducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xiaorui Liu , Suhang Wang

With growing demands for data privacy and model robustness, graph unlearning (GU), which erases the influence of specific data on trained GNN models, has gained significant attention. However, existing exact unlearning methods suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Fan Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dawei Cheng , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

For large-scale applications, there is growing interest in replacing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) via knowledge distillation. However, distilling GNNs for self-supervised graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seong Jin Ahn , Myoung-Ho Kim

Recent years have witnessed great success in handling graph-related tasks with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Despite their great academic success, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Zhangyang Gao , Guojiang Zhao , Stan Z. Li

Graph neural networks (GNN) have shown great success in learning from graph-structured data. They are widely used in various applications, such as recommendation, fraud detection, and search. In these domains, the graphs are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Da Zheng , Chao Ma , Minjie Wang , Jinjing Zhou , Qidong Su , Xiang Song , Quan Gan , Zheng Zhang , George Karypis

The graph neural network (GNN) has demonstrated its superior performance in various applications. The working mechanism behind it, however, remains mysterious. GNN models are designed to learn effective representations for graph-structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zepeng Zhang , Ziping Zhao

Graph unlearning technology has become increasingly important since the advent of the `right to be forgotten' and the growing concerns about the privacy and security of artificial intelligence. Graph unlearning aims to quickly eliminate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yi Li , Shichao Zhang , Guixian Zhang , Debo Cheng

Graph unlearning (GU), which removes nodes, edges, or features from trained graph neural networks (GNNs), is crucial in Web applications where graph data may contain sensitive, mislabeled, or malicious information. However, existing GU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Pengfei Ding , Yan Wang , Guanfeng Liu

GNNs, like other deep learning models, are data and computation hungry. There is a pressing need to scale training of GNNs on large datasets to enable their usage on low-resource environments. Graph distillation is an effort in that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mridul Gupta , Sahil Manchanda , Hariprasad Kodamana , Sayan Ranu

Compressing deep neural network (DNN) models becomes a very important and necessary technique for real-world applications, such as deploying those models on mobile devices. Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular methods for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Makoto Takamoto , Yusuke Morishita , Hitoshi Imaoka

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at transferring knowledge from a larger well-optimized teacher network to a smaller learnable student network.Existing KD methods have mainly considered two types of knowledge, namely the individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sheng Zhou , Yucheng Wang , Defang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xin Wang , Can Wang , Jiajun Bu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become one of the most popular research topics in both academia and industry communities for their strong ability in handling irregular graph data. However, large-scale datasets are posing great challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jiongyu Guo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

To bridge the gaps between powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLPs), GNN-to-MLP Knowledge Distillation (KD) proposes to distill knowledge from a well-trained teacher GNN into a student MLP. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Lirong Wu , Yunfan Liu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Stan Z. Li

We study a new paradigm of knowledge transfer that aims at encoding graph topological information into graph neural networks (GNNs) by distilling knowledge from a teacher GNN model trained on a complete graph to a student GNN model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Junchi Yan

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique to derive optimal performance from a small student network (SN) by distilling knowledge of a large teacher network (TN) and transferring the distilled knowledge to the small SN. Since a role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly being used for a variety of ML applications on graph data. Because graph data does not follow the independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) assumption, adversarial manipulations or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Varshita Kolipaka , Akshit Sinha , Debangan Mishra , Sumit Kumar , Arvindh Arun , Shashwat Goel , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru