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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the de facto standard for modeling graph data, with attention mechanisms and transformers significantly enhancing their performance on graph-based tasks. Despite these advancements, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a common claim in the recent literature on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Tiago P. Peixoto , Leto Peel , Thilo Gross , Manlio De Domenico

Transformers are deep neural network architectures that underpin the recent successes of large language models. Unlike more classical architectures that can be viewed as point-to-point maps, a Transformer acts as a measure-to-measure map…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Borjan Geshkovski , Philippe Rigollet , Domènec Ruiz-Balet

In recent years, the Transformer architecture has proven to be very successful in sequence processing, but its application to other data structures, such as graphs, has remained limited due to the difficulty of properly defining positions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Devin Kreuzer , Dominique Beaini , William L. Hamilton , Vincent Létourneau , Prudencio Tossou

Graph are a ubiquitous data representation, as they represent a flexible and compact representation. For instance, the 3D structure of RNA can be efficiently represented as $\textit{2.5D graphs}$, graphs whose nodes are nucleotides and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Vincent Mallet , Carlos G. Oliver , William L. Hamilton

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are composed of layers consisting of graph convolutions and pointwise nonlinearities. Due to their invariance and stability properties, GNNs are provably successful at learning representations from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Luana Ruiz , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Attention mechanisms have become a cornerstone in modern neural networks, driving breakthroughs across diverse domains. However, their application to graph structured data, where capturing topological connections is essential, remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Rui Hou , Wenyu Chen , Zhao Kang

Transformers have revolutionized performance in Natural Language Processing and Vision, paving the way for their integration with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). One key challenge in enhancing graph transformers is strengthening the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yun Young Choi , Sun Woo Park , Minho Lee , Youngho Woo

Traffic forecasting is an indispensable part of Intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and long-term network-wide accurate traffic speed forecasting is one of the most challenging tasks. Recently, deep learning methods have become…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Haoyang Yan , Xiaolei Ma

Graph neural networks (GNNs) aim to learn well-trained representations in a lower-dimension space for downstream tasks while preserving the topological structures. In recent years, attention mechanism, which is brilliant in the fields of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengcheng Sun , Chenhao Li , Xiang Lin , Tianji Zheng , Fanrong Meng , Xiaobin Rui , Zhixiao Wang

Predictive process monitoring aims to support the execution of a process during runtime with various predictions about the further evolution of a process instance. In the last years a plethora of deep learning architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Martin Käppel , Lars Ackermann , Stefan Jablonski , Simon Härtl

Inspired by the success of Transformer-based models in natural language processing, this paper investigates their potential as foundation models for network traffic analysis. We propose a unified pre-training and fine-tuning pipeline for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Samara Mayhoub , Chuan Heng Foh , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Mohammad Shojafar , Rahim Tafazolli

We present an attention-based spatial graph convolution (AGC) for graph neural networks (GNNs). Existing AGCs focus on only using node-wise features and utilizing one type of attention function when calculating attention weights. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yang Li , Yuichi Tanaka

In the field of source code processing, the transformer-based representation models have shown great powerfulness and have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in many tasks. Although the transformer models process the sequential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

We present graph attention networks (GATs), novel neural network architectures that operate on graph-structured data, leveraging masked self-attentional layers to address the shortcomings of prior methods based on graph convolutions or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-06 Petar Veličković , Guillem Cucurull , Arantxa Casanova , Adriana Romero , Pietro Liò , Yoshua Bengio

In many network problems, graphs may change by the addition of nodes, or the same problem may need to be solved in multiple similar graphs. This generates inefficiency, as analyses and systems that are not transferable have to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Luana Ruiz , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Attention networks have proven to be an effective approach for embedding categorical inference within a deep neural network. However, for many tasks we may want to model richer structural dependencies without abandoning end-to-end training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Yoon Kim , Carl Denton , Luong Hoang , Alexander M. Rush

Despite the widespread adoption of Transformer models for NLP tasks, the expressive power of these models is not well-understood. In this paper, we establish that Transformer models are universal approximators of continuous permutation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Chulhee Yun , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank J. Reddi , Sanjiv Kumar

Real data collected from different applications that have additional topological structures and connection information are amenable to be represented as a weighted graph. Considering the node labeling problem, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Xiaoxiao Li , Joao Saude

Recently, Transformers for graph representation learning have become increasingly popular, achieving state-of-the-art performance on a wide-variety of graph datasets, either alone or in combination with message-passing graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ayush Garg