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Attributed graph embedding, which learns vector representations from graph topology and node features, is a challenging task for graph analysis. Recently, methods based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have made great progress on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Ganqu Cui , Jie Zhou , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu

Graph Transformers (GTs) have shown strong empirical performance, yet current architectures vary widely in their use of attention mechanisms, positional embeddings (PEs), and expressivity. Existing expressivity results are often tied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Timo Stoll , Luis Müller , Christopher Morris

Graph Transformer is gaining increasing attention in the field of machine learning and has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks for graph representation learning. However, as current implementations of Graph Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Wenhao Zhu , Tianyu Wen , Guojie Song , Xiaojun Ma , Liang Wang

Collaborative recommendation fundamentally involves learning high-quality user and item representations from interaction data. Recently, graph convolution networks (GCNs) have advanced the field by utilizing high-order connectivity patterns…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiajia Chen , Jiancan Wu , Jiawei Chen , Chongming Gao , Yong Li , Xiang Wang

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

Knowledge graph reasoning plays a vital role in various applications and has garnered considerable attention. Recently, path-based methods have achieved impressive performance. However, they may face limitations stemming from constraints in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Junnan Liu , Qianren Mao , Weifeng Jiang , Jianxin Li

Graph transformation that predicts graph transition from one mode to another is an important and common problem. Despite much progress in developing advanced graph transformation techniques in recent years, the fundamental assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Shiyu Wang , Guangji Bai , Qingyang Zhu , Zhaohui Qin , Liang Zhao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning on graph-structured data, but often struggle to balance local and global information. While graph Transformers aim to address this by enabling long-range interactions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jeongwhan Choi , Seungjun Park , Sumin Park , Sung-Bae Cho , Noseong Park

We propose a symmetric graph convolutional autoencoder which produces a low-dimensional latent representation from a graph. In contrast to the existing graph autoencoders with asymmetric decoder parts, the proposed autoencoder has a newly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Jiwoong Park , Minsik Lee , Hyung Jin Chang , Kyuewang Lee , Jin Young Choi

Graph pre-training has been concentrated on graph-level tasks involving small graphs (e.g., molecular graphs) or learning node representations on a fixed graph. Extending graph pre-trained models to web-scale graphs with billions of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yufei He , Zhenyu Hou , Yukuo Cen , Jun Hu , Feng He , Xu Cheng , Jie Tang , Bryan Hooi

Graph transformers have emerged as a promising architecture for a variety of graph learning and representation tasks. Despite their successes, though, it remains challenging to scale graph transformers to large graphs while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hamed Shirzad , Ameya Velingker , Balaji Venkatachalam , Danica J. Sutherland , Ali Kemal Sinop

Many machine learning tasks such as multiple instance learning, 3D shape recognition, and few-shot image classification are defined on sets of instances. Since solutions to such problems do not depend on the order of elements of the set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Juho Lee , Yoonho Lee , Jungtaek Kim , Adam R. Kosiorek , Seungjin Choi , Yee Whye Teh

Machine learning on graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with applications ranging from drug design to friendship recommendation in social networks. The primary challenge in this domain is finding a way to represent, or encode, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 William L. Hamilton , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

Transformer-based pre-trained models have gained much advance in recent years, becoming one of the most important backbones in natural language processing. Recent work shows that the attention mechanism inside Transformer may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yile Wang , Linyi Yang , Zhiyang Teng , Ming Zhou , Yue Zhang

This work presents the first convolutional neural network that learns an image-to-graph translation task without needing external supervision. Obtaining graph representations of image content, where objects are represented as nodes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Chenyang Lu , Gijs Dubbelman

Graph Transformer has recently received wide attention in the research community with its outstanding performance, yet its structural expressive power has not been well analyzed. Inspired by the connections between Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Wenhao Zhu , Tianyu Wen , Guojie Song , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Recently, efforts have been made in the community to design new Graph Neural Networks (GNN), as limitations of Message Passing Neural Networks became more apparent. This led to the appearance of Graph Transformers using global graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Slimane Thabet , Romain Fouilland , Loic Henriet

The Transformer architecture has achieved remarkable success in a number of domains including natural language processing and computer vision. However, when it comes to graph-structured data, transformers have not achieved competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Qingyong Hu , Chee-Kong Lee

We introduce SignNet and BasisNet -- new neural architectures that are invariant to two key symmetries displayed by eigenvectors: (i) sign flips, since if $v$ is an eigenvector then so is $-v$; and (ii) more general basis symmetries, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Derek Lim , Joshua Robinson , Lingxiao Zhao , Tess Smidt , Suvrit Sra , Haggai Maron , Stefanie Jegelka

The (variational) graph auto-encoder is widely used to learn representations for graph-structured data. However, the formation of real-world graphs is a complicated and heterogeneous process influenced by latent factors. Existing encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Di Fan , Chuanhou Gao