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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used in graph data mining tasks. Traditional GNNs follow a message passing scheme that can effectively utilize local and structural information. However, the phenomena of over-smoothing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Zijie Zhou , Zhaoqi Lu , Xuekai Wei , Rongqin Chen , Shenghui Zhang , Pak Lon Ip , Leong Hou U

Skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize human actions given human joint coordinates with skeletal interconnections. By defining a graph with joints as vertices and their natural connections as edges, previous works successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yuxuan Zhou , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Chao Li , Yanwen Fang , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie , Margret Keuper

Graph transformers extend global self-attention to graph-structured data, achieving notable success in graph learning. Recently, random walk structural encoding (RWSE) has been found to further enhance their predictive power by encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Louis Airale , Antonio Longa , Mattia Rigon , Andrea Passerini , Roberto Passerone

Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide a powerful and scalable solution for modeling continuous spatial data. However, they often rely on Euclidean distances to construct the input graphs. This assumption can be improbable in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Konstantin Klemmer , Nathan Safir , Daniel B. Neill

Learning representations on large graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature. Transformers recently have shown promising performance on small graphs thanks to its global attention for capturing all-pair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qitian Wu , Kai Yang , Hengrui Zhang , David Wipf , Junchi Yan

Temporal Graph Neural Networks have garnered substantial attention for their capacity to model evolving structural and temporal patterns while exhibiting impressive performance. However, it is known that these architectures are encumbered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Mahdi Biparva , Raika Karimi , Faezeh Faez , Yingxue Zhang

The graph Laplacian is an important tool in Graph Signal Processing (GSP) as its eigenvalue decomposition acts as an analogue to the Fourier transform and is known as the Graph Fourier Transform (GFT). The line graph has a GFT that is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Ian M. T. Rooney , Parker S. Kuklinski , David A. Hague

We introduce an $E(n)$-equivariant Transformer architecture for spatio-temporal graph data. By imposing rotation, translation, and permutation equivariance inductive biases in both space and time, we show that the Spacetime…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Sergio G. Charles

Spectral features are widely incorporated within Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve their expressive power, or their ability to distinguish among non-isomorphic graphs. One popular example is the usage of graph Laplacian eigenvectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Snir Hordan , Maya Bechler-Speicher , Gur Lifshitz , Nadav Dym

We conducted empirical experiments to assess the transferability of a light curve transformer to datasets with different cadences and magnitude distributions using various positional encodings (PEs). We proposed a new approach to…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are deep learning methods which provide the current state of the art performance in node classification tasks. GNNs often assume homophily -- neighboring nodes having similar features and labels--, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liheng Ma , Reihaneh Rabbany , Adriana Romero-Soriano

A few models have tried to tackle the link prediction problem, also known as knowledge graph completion, by embedding knowledge graphs in comparably lower dimensions. However, the state-of-the-art results are attained at the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Peyman Baghershahi , Reshad Hosseini , Hadi Moradi

Multi-graph learning is crucial for extracting meaningful signals from collections of heterogeneous graphs. However, effectively integrating information across graphs with differing topologies, scales, and semantics, often in the absence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zahra Moslemi , Ziyi Liang , Norbert Fortin , Babak Shahbaba

In recommender systems, most graph-based methods focus on positive user feedback, while overlooking the valuable negative feedback. Integrating both positive and negative feedback to form a signed graph can lead to a more comprehensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sirui Chen , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Bohao Wang , Shen Han , Chanfei Su , Yuqing Yuan , Can Wang

We present a generalization of Transformers to any-order permutation invariant data (sets, graphs, and hypergraphs). We begin by observing that Transformers generalize DeepSets, or first-order (set-input) permutation invariant MLPs. Then,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jinwoo Kim , Saeyoon Oh , Seunghoon Hong

Graph foundation models represent a transformative paradigm for learning transferable representations across diverse graph domains. Recent methods leverage large language models to unify graph and text modalities into a shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Heng Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu , Yaomin Shen , Haochen You , Zijian Zhang , Yilei Yuan , Jin Huang

Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) recently emerged as powerful node embedding methods, with promising performances on challenging tasks such as link prediction and node clustering. Graph AE, VAE and most of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Guillaume Salha , Romain Hennequin , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We present an approach to modifying Transformer architectures by integrating graph-aware relational reasoning into the attention mechanism, merging concepts from graph neural networks and language modeling. Building on the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Markus J. Buehler

Graph autoencoders (GAEs) are powerful tools in representation learning for graph embedding. However, the performance of GAEs is very dependent on the quality of the graph structure, i.e., of the adjacency matrix. In other words, GAEs would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rui Zhang , Yunxing Zhang , Xuelong Li

Graph-based Sequential Recommender systems (GSRs) have gained significant research attention due to their ability to simultaneously handle user-item interactions and sequential relationships between items. Current GSRs often utilize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jinyu Zhang , Chao Li , Zhongying Zhao