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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an effective framework for representation learning of graphs. GNNs follow a neighborhood aggregation scheme, where the representation vector of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Keyulu Xu , Weihua Hu , Jure Leskovec , Stefanie Jegelka

We present a novel approach for graph classification based on tabularizing graph data via new variants of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and then applying methods for tabular data. The variants are obtained by modifying the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Reijo Jaakkola , Tomi Janhunen , Antti Kuusisto , Magdalena Ortiz , Matias Selin , Mantas Šimkus

Applying machine learning to molecules is challenging because of their natural representation as graphs rather than vectors.Several architectures have been recently proposed for deep learning from molecular graphs, but they suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-15 Jaak Simm , Adam Arany , Edward De Brouwer , Yves Moreau

Weisfeiler-Leman Features (WLFs) are a recently introduced classical machine learning tool for learning to plan and search. They have been shown to be both theoretically and empirically superior to existing deep learning approaches for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dillon Z. Chen

Markov Logic Networks (MLNs), which elegantly combine logic rules and probabilistic graphical models, can be used to address many knowledge graph problems. However, inference in MLN is computationally intensive, making the industrial-scale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Yuyu Zhang , Xinshi Chen , Yuan Yang , Arun Ramamurthy , Bo Li , Yuan Qi , Le Song

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in graph-related contexts. It is known that the separation power of GNNs is equivalent to that of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test; hence, GNNs are imperfect at identifying all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ziang Chen , Qiao Zhang , Runzhong Wang

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension of a graph parameter $f$ is the minimum $k$ such that, if $G_1$ and $G_2$ are indistinguishable by the $k$-dimensional WL-algorithm then $f(G_1)=f(G_2)$. The WL-dimension of $f$ is $\infty$ if no such $k$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Andreas Göbel , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Marc Roth

Generalizing to unseen graph tasks without task-pecific supervision remains challenging. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are limited by fixed label spaces, while Large Language Models (LLMs) lack structural inductive biases. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yicong Wu , Guangyue Lu , Yuan Zuo , Huarong Zhang , Junjie Wu

The Weisfeiler--Lehman (WL) test and its simplicial extension (SWL) characterize the combinatorial expressivity of message passing networks, but they are blind to geometry, i.e., meshes with identical connectivity but different embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Elena Xinyi Wang , Bastian Rieck

Learning representations of sets of nodes in a graph is crucial for applications ranging from node-role discovery to link prediction and molecule classification. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Pan Li , Yanbang Wang , Hongwei Wang , Jure Leskovec

Graph neural networks (GNN) are deep learning architectures for graphs. Essentially, a GNN is a distributed message passing algorithm, which is controlled by parameters learned from data. It operates on the vertices of a graph: in each…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Martin Grohe , Eran Rosenbluth

It is unknown whether two graphs can be tested for isomorphism in polynomial time. A classical approach to the Graph Isomorphism Problem is the d-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm. The d-dimensional WL-algorithm can distinguish many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-10 Harm Derksen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool to learn representations on graphs by iteratively aggregating features from node neighbourhoods. Many variant models have been proposed, but there is limited understanding on both how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Michael Lingzhi Li , Meng Dong , Jiawei Zhou , Alexander M. Rush

The ability of a graph neural network (GNN) to leverage both the graph topology and graph labels is fundamental to building discriminative node and graph embeddings. Building on previous work, we theoretically show that edGNN, our model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Guillaume Jaume , An-phi Nguyen , María Rodríguez Martínez , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Maria Gabrani

Hypergraphs provide a natural framework to model higher-order interactions in scientific, social, and biological systems. Hypergraph neural networks (HGNNs) aim to learn from such data, yet it remains unclear which higher-order structures…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in various natural language processing tasks; however, their application to graph-related problems remains limited, primarily due to scalability constraints and the absence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Hyun Lee , Chris Yi , Maminur Islam , B. D. S. Aritra

Theoretical studies on the representation power of GNNs have been centered around understanding the equivalence of GNNs, using WL-Tests for detecting graph isomorphism. In this paper, we argue that such equivalence ignores the accompanying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 P. Krishna Kumar a , Harish G. Ramaswamy

This work generalizes graph neural networks (GNNs) beyond those based on the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) algorithm, graph Laplacians, and diffusions. Our approach, denoted Relational Pooling (RP), draws from the theory of finite partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Ryan L. Murphy , Balasubramaniam Srinivasan , Vinayak Rao , Bruno Ribeiro

The classical Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm aka color refinement is fundamental for graph learning with kernels and neural networks. Originally developed for graph isomorphism testing, the algorithm iteratively refines vertex colors. On many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Franka Bause , Nils M. Kriege

Despite significant advances in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), their limited expressivity remains a fundamental challenge. Research on GNN expressivity has produced many expressive architectures, leading to architecture hierarchies with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yam Eitan , Moshe Eliasof , Yoav Gelberg , Fabrizio Frasca , Guy Bar-Shalom , Haggai Maron