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We present a generalization of graph convolutional networks by generalizing the diffusion operation underlying this class of graph neural networks. These sheaf neural networks are based on the sheaf Laplacian, a generalization of the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jakob Hansen , Thomas Gebhart

Cellular sheaves and sheaf Laplacians provide a far-reaching generalization of graphs and graph Laplacians, resulting in a wide array of applications ranging from machine learning to multi-agent control. In the context of multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Yichen Zhao , Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

Cellular sheaves equip graphs with a "geometrical" structure by assigning vector spaces and linear maps to nodes and edges. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) implicitly assume a graph with a trivial underlying sheaf. This choice is reflected in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Bodnar , Francesco Di Giovanni , Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , Pietro Liò , Michael M. Bronstein

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel framework to infer the sheaf Laplacian, including the topology of a graph and the restriction maps, from a set of data observed over the nodes of a graph. The proposed method is based on sheaf…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Leonardo Di Nino , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Sheaf Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a powerful generalization of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that significantly improve our ability to model complex relational data. While directionality has been shown to substantially boost performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Stefano Fiorini , Hakan Aktas , Iulia Duta , Stefano Coniglio , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Pietro Liò

Spatio-temporal processes often exhibit highly heterogeneous and non-intuitive responses to localized disruptions, limiting the effectiveness of conventional message passing approaches in modeling local heterogeneity. We reformulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abeer Mostafa , Raneen Younis , Zahra Ahmadi

We introduce nonlocal dynamics on directed networks through the construction of a fractional version of a nonsymmetric Laplacian for weighted directed graphs. Furthermore, we provide an analytic treatment of fractional dynamics for both…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Michele Benzi , Daniele Bertaccini , Fabio Durastante , Igor Simunec

Nonlinear spectral graph theory is an extension of the traditional (linear) spectral graph theory and studies relationships between spectral properties of nonlinear operators defined on a graph and topological properties of the graph…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Piero Deidda , Francesco Tudisco , Dong Zhang

Higher-order relations are widespread in nature, with numerous phenomena involving complex interactions that extend beyond simple pairwise connections. As a result, advancements in higher-order processing can accelerate the growth of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Iulia Duta , Giulia Cassarà , Fabrizio Silvestri , Pietro Liò

Sheaf Neural Networks (SNNs) were introduced as an extension of Graph Convolutional Networks to address oversmoothing on heterophilous graphs by attaching a sheaf to the input graph and replacing the adjacency-based operator with a sheaf…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ferran Hernandez Caralt , Mar Gonzàlez i Català , Adrián Bazaga , Pietro Liò

Sheaf diffusion has recently emerged as a promising design pattern for graph representation learning due to its inherent ability to handle heterophilic data and avoid oversmoothing. Meanwhile, cooperative message passing has also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 André Ribeiro , Ana Luiza Tenório , Juan Belieni , Amauri H. Souza , Diego Mesquita

Convolutional layers within graph neural networks operate by aggregating information about local neighbourhood structures; one common way to encode such substructures is through random walks. The distribution of these random walks evolves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Csaba Toth , Darrick Lee , Celia Hacker , Harald Oberhauser

Deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for capturing complex dependencies in graph-structured data. However, scaling GNNs to depth remains challenging, as stacking layers leads to representation collapse and diminishing sensitivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rémi Bourgerie , Šarūnas Girdzijauskas , Viktoria Fodor

Graph Neural Networks leverage the connectivity structure of graphs as an inductive bias. Latent graph inference focuses on learning an adequate graph structure to diffuse information on and improve the downstream performance of the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Álvaro Arroyo , Ingmar Posner

Graph neural networks have developed by leaps and bounds in recent years due to the restriction of traditional convolutional filters on non-Euclidean structured data. Spectral graph theory mainly studies fundamental graph properties using…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Xinye Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) play a pivotal role in graph-based tasks for their proficiency in representation learning. Among the various GNN methods, spectral GNNs employing polynomial filters have shown promising performance on tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Haipeng Ding , Zhewei Wei , Yuhang Ye

Nonlocal neural networks have been proposed and shown to be effective in several computer vision tasks, where the nonlocal operations can directly capture long-range dependencies in the feature space. In this paper, we study the nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yunzhe Tao , Qi Sun , Qiang Du , Wei Liu

A multitude of imaging and vision tasks have seen recently a major transformation by deep learning methods and in particular by the application of convolutional neural networks. These methods achieve impressive results, even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Simon Arridge , Andreas Hauptmann

We explore the problem of inferring the graph Laplacian of a weighted, undirected network from snapshots of a single or multiple discrete-time consensus dynamics, subject to parameter uncertainty, taking place on the network. Specifically,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yu Zhu , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Santiago Segarra

Influence maximization is key topic in data mining, with broad applications in social network analysis and viral marketing. In recent years, researchers have increasingly turned to machine learning techniques to address this problem. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Asela Hevapathige , Qing Wang , Ahad N. Zehmakan
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