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Transformer has been popular in recent crowd counting work since it breaks the limited receptive field of traditional CNNs. However, since crowd images always contain a large number of similar patches, the self-attention mechanism in…

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Graphs have become a central representation in machine learning for capturing relational and structured data across various domains. Traditional graph neural networks often struggle to capture long-range dependencies between nodes due to…

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This paper presents a novel transformer architecture for graph representation learning. The core insight of our method is to fully consider the information propagation among nodes and edges in a graph when building the attention module in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhe Chen , Hao Tan , Tao Wang , Tianrun Shen , Tong Lu , Qiuying Peng , Cheng Cheng , Yue Qi

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in graph representation learning over popular graph neural networks (GNNs). However, self--attention, the core module of GTs, preserves only low-frequency signals in graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guoguo Ai , Guansong Pang , Hezhe Qiao , Yuan Gao , Hui Yan

Transformers flexibly operate over sets of real-valued vectors representing task-specific entities and their attributes, where each vector might encode one word-piece token and its position in a sequence, or some piece of information that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Cameron Diao , Ricky Loynd

In representation learning on graph-structured data, many popular graph neural networks (GNNs) fail to capture long-range dependencies, leading to performance degradation. Furthermore, this weakness is magnified when the concerned graph is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Mengying Jiang , Guizhong Liu , Yuanchao Su , Xinliang Wu

Transformers have achieved remarkable performance in a myriad of fields including natural language processing and computer vision. However, when it comes to the graph mining area, where graph neural network (GNN) has been the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jianan Zhao , Chaozhuo Li , Qianlong Wen , Yiqi Wang , Yuming Liu , Hao Sun , Xing Xie , Yanfang Ye

Recently the Transformer structure has shown good performances in graph learning tasks. However, these Transformer models directly work on graph nodes and may have difficulties learning high-level information. Inspired by the vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Han Gao , Xu Han , Jiaoyang Huang , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu

Graph transformers are the state-of-the-art for learning from graph-structured data and are empirically known to avoid several pitfalls of message-passing architectures. However, there is limited theoretical analysis on why these models…

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Autoencoders are effective deep learning models that can function as generative models and learn latent representations for downstream tasks. The use of graph autoencoders - with both encoder and decoder implemented as message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Magnus Cunow , Gerrit Großmann

Existing sequence to sequence models for structured language tasks rely heavily on the dot product self attention mechanism, which incurs quadratic complexity in both computation and memory for input length N. We introduce the Graph Wavelet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Andrew Kiruluta , Eric Lundy , Priscilla Burity

We introduce a transformer-based GNN model, named UGformer, to learn graph representations. In particular, we present two UGformer variants, wherein the first variant (publicized in September 2019) is to leverage the transformer on a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

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…

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Traffic forecasting is a cornerstone of smart city management, enabling efficient resource allocation and transportation planning. Deep learning, with its ability to capture complex nonlinear patterns in spatiotemporal (ST) data, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Hongjun Wang , Jiyuan Chen , Tong Pan , Zheng Dong , Lingyu Zhang , Renhe Jiang , Xuan Song

We aim to deepen the theoretical understanding of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large graphs, with a focus on their expressive power. Existing analyses relate this notion to the graph isomorphism problem, which is mostly relevant for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Nicolas Keriven , Samuel Vaiter

Link prediction is a core challenge in graph machine learning, demanding models that capture rich and complex topological dependencies. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the standard solution, state-of-the-art pipelines often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Quang Truong , Yu Song , Donald Loveland , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

We introduce an unsupervised graph embedding that trades off local node similarity and connectivity, and global structure. The embedding is based on a generalized graph Laplacian, whose eigenvectors compactly capture both network structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Shay Deutsch , Stefano Soatto

The dominant paradigm for machine learning on graphs uses Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs), in which node representations are updated by aggregating information in their local neighborhood. Recently, there have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Daniel Glickman , Eran Yahav

Graph Transformers (GTs) show considerable potential in graph representation learning. The architecture of GTs typically integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with global attention mechanisms either in parallel or as a precursor to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Gang Wu , Zhengwei Wang

Session-based recommendation systems suggest relevant items to users by modeling user behavior and preferences using short-term anonymous sessions. Existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that propagate and aggregate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Sai Mitheran , Abhinav Java , Surya Kant Sahu , Arshad Shaikh