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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a spectrum of graph-related tasks, however concerns persist regarding their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. While prevailing defense strategies focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofiane Ennadir , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis , El Houcine Bergou

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

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often suffer from performance degradation as the network depth increases. This paper addresses this issue by introducing initialization methods that enhance signal propagation (SP) within GNNs. We propose three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Senmiao Wang , Yupeng Chen , Yushun Zhang , Ruoyu Sun , Tian Ding

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a versatile and powerful tool for encoding various forms of data, including images, videos, sound, and 3D shapes. A critical factor in the success of INRs is the initialization of the network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Sameera Ramasinghe , Stephen Gould

Traditional initialisation methods, e.g. He and Xavier, have been effective in avoiding the problem of vanishing or exploding gradients in neural networks. However, they only use simple pointwise distributions, which model one-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Christian Harder , Moritz Fuchs , Yuri Tolkach , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Graph neural networks (GNNs) offer a principled approach to financial fraud detection by jointly learning from node features and transaction graph topology. However, their effectiveness on real-world anti-money laundering (AML) benchmarks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Dang Sy Duy , Nguyen Duy Chien , Kapil Dev , Jeff Nijsse

Existing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are limited to process graphs each of whose vertices is represented by a vector or a single value, limited their representing capability to describe complex objects. In this paper, we propose the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiongshu Wang , Jing Yang , Jiankang Deng , Hatice Gunes , Siyang Song

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted considerable attention and have emerged as a new promising paradigm to process graph-structured data. GNNs are usually stacked to multiple layers and the node representations in each layer are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Yihao Chen , Xin Tang , Xianbiao Qi , Chun-Guang Li , Rong Xiao

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) rely on graph convolutions to learn features from network data. GNNs are stable to different types of perturbations of the underlying graph, a property that they inherit from graph filters. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Juan Cervino , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a notorious alternative to address learning problems dealing with non-Euclidean datasets. However, although most works assume that the graph is perfectly known, the observed topology is prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Victor M. Tenorio , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques

Graph neural networks (GNNs), consisting of a cascade of layers applying a graph convolution followed by a pointwise nonlinearity, have become a powerful architecture to process signals supported on graphs. Graph convolutions (and thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Fernando Gama , Joan Bruna , Alejandro Ribeiro

The proper initialization of weights is crucial for the effective training and fast convergence of deep neural networks (DNNs). Prior work in this area has mostly focused on balancing the variance among weights per layer to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Maciej Skorski , Alessandro Temperoni , Martin Theobald

Graph Visualization, also known as Graph Drawing, aims to find geometric embeddings of graphs that optimize certain criteria. Stress is a widely used metric; stress is minimized when every pair of nodes is positioned at their shortest path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Robert Veres , Roger Wattenhofer

In this work, we generalize the ideas of Kaiming initialization to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and propose a new scheme (G-Init) that reduces oversmoothing, leading to very good results in node and graph classification tasks. GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dimitrios Kelesis , Dimitris Fotakis , Georgios Paliouras

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve an impressive performance on structured graphs by recursively updating the representation vector of each node based on its neighbors, during which parameterized transformation matrices should be learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Pengfei Chen , Weiwen Liu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Guangyong Chen , Shengyu Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard for graph representation learning but remain vulnerable to structural perturbations. We propose a novel framework that integrates persistent homology features with stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jelena Losic

Instability of trained models, i.e., the dependence of individual node predictions on random factors, can affect reproducibility, reliability, and trust in machine learning systems. In this paper, we systematically assess the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Max Klabunde , Florian Lemmerich

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used for modeling graph-structured data. With the development of numerous GNN variants, recent years have witnessed groundbreaking results in improving the scalability of GNNs to work on static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yanping Zheng , Hanzhi Wang , Zhewei Wei , Jiajun Liu , Sibo Wang
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