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Message passing neural networks (MPNN) have seen a steep rise in popularity since their introduction as generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and are now considered state-of-the-art tools for solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sohir Maskey , Ron Levie , Yunseok Lee , Gitta Kutyniok

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have emerged as the leading approach for machine learning on graphs, attracting significant attention in recent years. While a large set of works explored the expressivity of MPNNs, i.e., their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Antonis Vasileiou , Stefanie Jegelka , Ron Levie , Christopher Morris

A recent paper, ``A Graphon-Signal Analysis of Graph Neural Networks'', by Levie, analyzed message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) by embedding the input space of MPNNs, i.e., attributed graphs (graph-signals), to a space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Levi Rauchwerger , Ron Levie

The expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) is reasonably well understood, primarily through combinatorial techniques from graph isomorphism testing. However, MPNNs' generalization abilities -- making meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Antonis Vasileiou , Ben Finkelshtein , Floris Geerts , Ron Levie , Christopher Morris

The counting power of Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNN) has been the subject of many recent papers, showing that they can express logic that involves counting up to a threshold or more generally satisfy a linear arithmetic constraint.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Marco Sälzer , Pascal Bergsträßer , Anthony W. Lin

Generalization and approximation capabilities of message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) are often studied by defining a compact metric on a space of input graphs under which MPNNs are H\"older continuous. Such analyses are of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ofek Amran , Tom Gilat , Ron Levie

Using message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) for node and link prediction is crucial in various scientific and industrial domains, which has led to the development of diverse MPNN architectures. Besides working well in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Antonis Vasileiou , Timo Stoll , Christopher Morris

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend convolutional neural networks to operate on graphs. Despite their impressive performances in various graph learning tasks, the theoretical understanding of their generalization capability is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhiyang Wang , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we derive generalization bounds for the two primary classes of graph neural networks (GNNs), namely graph convolutional networks (GCNs) and message passing GNNs (MPGNNs), via a PAC-Bayesian approach. Our result reveals that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Renjie Liao , Raquel Urtasun , Richard Zemel

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the most widely adopted model in graph-structured data oriented learning and representation. Despite their extraordinary success in real-world applications, understanding their working mechanism by theory is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in various tasks supported by their generalization capabilities. However, the current analysis of GNN generalization relies on the assumption that training and testing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiyang Wang , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph neural networks (GNNs), as the de-facto model class for representation learning on graphs, are built upon the multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) architecture with additional message passing layers to allow features to flow across nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Jiahua Wang , Junchi Yan

We address two fundamental questions about graph neural networks (GNNs). First, we prove that several important graph properties cannot be computed by GNNs that rely entirely on local information. Such GNNs include the standard message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Vikas K. Garg , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi Jaakkola

Despite the celebrated popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) across numerous applications, the ability of GNNs to generalize remains less explored. In this work, we propose to study the generalization of GNNs through a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Shouheng Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

In this paper, we study the generalization capabilities of geometric graph neural networks (GNNs). We consider GNNs over a geometric graph constructed from a finite set of randomly sampled points over an embedded manifold with topological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Zhiyang Wang , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro

Many real-world phenomena can be modeled as a graph, making them extremely valuable due to their ubiquitous presence. GNNs excel at capturing those relationships and patterns within these graphs, enabling effective learning and prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Abhinav Raghuvanshi , Kushal Sokke Malleshappa

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performances in a wide range of applications including image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Previous research on characterizing the generalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-04 Shan Lin , Jingwei Zhang

Expressivity and generalization are two critical aspects of graph neural networks (GNNs). While significant progress has been made in studying the expressivity of GNNs, much less is known about their generalization capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shouheng Li , Floris Geerts , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

A hallmark of graph neural networks is their ability to distinguish the isomorphism class of their inputs. This study derives hardness results for the classification variant of graph isomorphism in the message-passing model (MPNN). MPNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Andreas Loukas

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning on structured data, yet the relationship between their expressivity and predictive performance remains unclear. We introduce a family of premetrics that capture different degrees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Sohir Maskey , Raffaele Paolino , Fabian Jogl , Gitta Kutyniok , Johannes F. Lutzeyer
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