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Graph representation learning, aiming to learn low-dimensional representations which capture the geometric dependencies between nodes in the original graph, has gained increasing popularity in a variety of graph analysis tasks, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Lu Wang , Wenchao Yu , Wei Wang , Wei Cheng , Wei Zhang , Hongyuan Zha , Xiaofeng He , Haifeng Chen

Our capacity to learn representations from data is related to our ability to design filters that can leverage their coupling with the underlying domain. Graph filters are one such tool for network data and have been used in a myriad of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Bishwadeep Das , Elvin Isufi

Homophily is a graph property describing the tendency of edges to connect similar nodes; the opposite is called heterophily. It is often believed that heterophilous graphs are challenging for standard message-passing graph neural networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Oleg Platonov , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Graph neural networks (GNNs) often struggle to learn discriminative node representations for heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes tend to have dissimilar labels and feature similarity provides weak structural cues. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ayushman Raghuvanshi , Gonzalo Mateos , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Clustering nodes in heterophilous graphs is challenging as traditional methods assume that effective clustering is characterized by high intra-cluster and low inter-cluster connectivity. To address this, we introduce HeNCler-a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Sonny Achten , Zander Op de Beeck , Francesco Tonin , Volkan Cevher , Johan A. K. Suykens

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for node classification on graphs. The vast majority of existing works assume that genuine node labels are always provided for training. However, there has been very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yayong Li , Jie yin , Ling Chen

Recent studies on Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) provide both empirical and theoretical evidence supporting their effectiveness in capturing structural patterns on both homophilic and certain heterophilic graphs. Notably, most real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haitao Mao , Zhikai Chen , Wei Jin , Haoyu Han , Yao Ma , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard for graph representation learning but remain vulnerable to structural perturbations. We propose a novel framework that integrates persistent homology features with stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jelena Losic

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

Graphs are ubiquitous for modeling complex relationships between objects across various fields. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a mainstream technique for graph-based applications, but their performance heavily relies on abundant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xingtong Yu , Jie Zhang , Yuan Fang , Renhe Jiang

Recent research on the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) under noises or attacks has attracted great attention due to its importance in real-world applications. Most previous methods explore a single noise source, recovering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Tianmeng Yang , Jiahao Meng , Min Zhou , Yaming Yang , Yujing Wang , Xiangtai Li , Yunhai Tong

Graphs have become pervasive tools to represent information and datasets with irregular support. However, in many cases, the underlying graph is either unavailable or naively obtained, calling for more advanced methods to its estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Andrei Buciulea , Antonio G. Marques

Graph structure learning is a well-established problem that aims at optimizing graph structures adaptive to specific graph datasets to help message passing neural networks (i.e., GNNs) to yield effective and robust node embeddings. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wentao Zhao , Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

In this paper, we are interested in learning the underlying graph structure behind training data. Solving this basic problem is essential to carry out any graph signal processing or machine learning task. To realize this, we assume that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Sijia Liu , Geert Leus , Alfred O. Hero

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become widely-used models for semi-supervised learning. However, the robustness of GNNs in the presence of label noise remains a largely under-explored problem. In this paper, we consider an important yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Siyi Qian , Haochao Ying , Renjun Hu , Jingbo Zhou , Jintai Chen , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

Recently, graph neural networks have been widely used for network embedding because of their prominent performance in pairwise relationship learning. In the real world, a more natural and common situation is the coexistence of pairwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Xiangguo Sun , Hongzhi Yin , Bo Liu , Hongxu Chen , Jiuxin Cao , Yingxia Shao , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung

Graph is a universe data structure that is widely used to organize data in real-world. Various real-word networks like the transportation network, social and academic network can be represented by graphs. Recent years have witnessed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xueyi Liu , Jie Tang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great prowess in learning representations suitable for numerous graph-based machine learning tasks. When applied to semi-supervised node classification, GNNs are widely believed to work well due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Yao Ma , Xiaorui Liu , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Node classification on graphs is an important research problem with many applications. Real-world graph data sets may not be balanced and accurate as assumed by most existing works. A challenging setting is positive-unlabeled (PU) node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Hansi Yang , Yongqi Zhang , Quanming Yao , James Kwok

Many real-world heterogeneous graphs exhibit pronounced heterophily, where connected nodes often have dissimilar labels or play different semantic roles. In such settings, standard heterogeneous graph neural networks that aggregate messages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xinyi Li , Ming Li , Lu Bai , Lixin Cui , Feilong Cao , Ke Lv , Yunliang Jiang , Pietro Liò