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Graph-structured data plays a vital role in numerous domains, such as social networks, citation networks, commonsense reasoning graphs and knowledge graphs. While graph neural networks have been employed for graph processing, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wooyoung Kim , Byungyoon Park , Wooju Kim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for nonlinear processing of graph signals, exhibiting success in recommender systems, power outage prediction, and motion planning, among others. GNNs consists of a cascade of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Fernando Gama , Joan Bruna , Alejandro Ribeiro

We seek to improve deep neural networks by generalizing the pooling operations that play a central role in current architectures. We pursue a careful exploration of approaches to allow pooling to learn and to adapt to complex and variable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-13 Chen-Yu Lee , Patrick W. Gallagher , Zhuowen Tu

We introduce a novel variant of GNN for particle tracking called Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (HGNN). The architecture creates a set of higher-level representations which correspond to tracks and assigns spacepoints to these tracks,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-06 Ryan Liu , Paolo Calafiura , Steven Farrell , Xiangyang Ju , Daniel Thomas Murnane , Tuan Minh Pham

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success across various scientific fields, yet their adoption in critical decision-making is often hindered by a lack of interpretability. Recently, intrinsically interpretable GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cheng Xin , Fan Xu , Xin Ding , Jie Gao , Jiaxin Ding

Subgraph GNNs enhance message-passing GNNs expressivity by representing graphs as sets of subgraphs, demonstrating impressive performance across various tasks. However, their scalability is hindered by the need to process large numbers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Guy Bar-Shalom , Yam Eitan , Fabrizio Frasca , Haggai Maron

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular machine learning methods for modeling graph data. A lot of GNNs perform well on homophily graphs while having unsatisfactory performance on heterophily graphs. Recently, some researchers turn their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Wendong Bi , Lun Du , Qiang Fu , Yanlin Wang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are typically applied to static graphs that are assumed to be known upfront. This static input structure is often informed purely by insight of the machine learning practitioner, and might not be optimal for the…

In this work, we introduce a novel approach based on algebraic topology to enhance graph convolution and attention modules by incorporating local topological properties of the data. To do so, we consider the framework of sheaf neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Gabriele Cesa , Arash Behboodi

The irreducible complexity of natural phenomena has led Graph Neural Networks to be employed as a standard model to perform representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. While their capacity to capture local and global patterns is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lorenzo Giusti

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been highly successful for the node classification task. GNNs typically assume graphs are homophilic, i.e. neighboring nodes are likely to belong to the same class. However, a number of real-world graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Rui Fan

With the advent of data science, the analysis of network or graph data has become a very timely research problem. A variety of recent works have been proposed to generalize neural networks to graphs, either from a spectral graph theory or a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Xing Gao , Hongkai Xiong , Pascal Frossard

We propose an approach to learning with graph-structured data in the problem domain of graph classification. In particular, we present a novel type of readout operation to aggregate node features into a graph-level representation. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Christoph D. Hofer , Florian Graf , Bastian Rieck , Marc Niethammer , Roland Kwitt

Graph Neural Network (GNN), with the main idea of encoding graph structure information of graphs by propagation and aggregation, has developed rapidly. It achieved excellent performance in representation learning of multiple types of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yushan Zhu , Wen Zhang , Yajing Xu , Zhen Yao , Mingyang Chen , Huajun Chen

Convolutional graph networks are used in particle physics for effective event reconstructions and classifications. However, their performances can be limited by the considerable amount of sensors used in modern particle detectors if applied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-10 M. Bachlechner , T. Birkenfeld , P. Soldin , A. Stahl , C. Wiebusch

Persistent homology is a cornerstone of topological data analysis, offering a multiscale summary of topology with robustness to nuisance transformations, such as rotations and small deformations. Persistent homology has seen broad use…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Zitian Wu , Arkaprava Roy , Leo L. Duan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received considerable attention on graph-structured data learning for a wide variety of tasks. The well-designed propagation mechanism which has been demonstrated effective is the most fundamental part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Meiqi Zhu , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Houye Ji , Peng Cui

Graph pooling methods have been widely used on downsampling graphs, achieving impressive results on multiple graph-level tasks like graph classification and graph generation. An important line called node dropping pooling aims at exploiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gaichao Li , Jinsong Chen , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often assume strong homophily for graph classification, seldom considering heterophily, which means connected nodes tend to have different class labels and dissimilar features. In real-world scenarios, graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiayi Yang , Sourav Medya , Wei Ye

Relational pooling is a framework for building more expressive and permutation-invariant graph neural networks. However, there is limited understanding of the exact enhancement in the expressivity of RP and its connection with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Cai Zhou , Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang