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To alleviate the local receptive issue of GCN, Transformers have been exploited to capture the long range dependences of nodes for graph data representation and learning. However, existing graph Transformers generally employ regular…

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The Transformer architecture has gained growing attention in graph representation learning recently, as it naturally overcomes several limitations of graph neural networks (GNNs) by avoiding their strict structural inductive biases and…

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Graph Transformer (GT), as a special type of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), utilizes multi-head attention to facilitate high-order message passing. However, this also imposes several limitations in node classification applications: 1) nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jiajun Zhou , Xuanze Chen , Chenxuan Xie , Yu Shanqing , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Transformers have recently emerged as powerful neural networks for graph learning, showcasing state-of-the-art performance on several graph property prediction tasks. However, these results have been limited to small-scale graphs, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Yozen Liu , Anh Tuan Luu , Xavier Bresson , Neil Shah , Tong Zhao

The emerging graph Transformers have achieved impressive performance for graph representation learning over graph neural networks (GNNs). In this work, we regard the self-attention mechanism, the core module of graph Transformers, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinsong Chen , Gaichao Li , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Graph Transformers (GTs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse domains. By leveraging attention mechanisms, GTs are capable of modeling long-range dependencies and complex structural relationships beyond local…

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Transformers have attained outstanding performance across various modalities, owing to their simple but powerful scaled-dot-product (SDP) attention mechanisms. Researchers have attempted to migrate Transformers to graph learning, but most…

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The paradigm of Transformers using the self-attention mechanism has manifested its advantage in learning graph-structured data. Yet, Graph Transformers are capable of modeling full range dependencies but are often deficient in extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Minhong Zhu , Zhenhao Zhao , Weiran Cai

We introduce Attention Graphs, a new tool for mechanistic interpretability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers based on the mathematical equivalence between message passing in GNNs and the self-attention mechanism in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Batu El , Deepro Choudhury , Pietro Liò , Chaitanya K. Joshi

Transformer-based models have recently shown success in representation learning on graph-structured data beyond natural language processing and computer vision. However, the success is limited to small-scale graphs due to the drawbacks of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jinyoung Park , Seongjun Yun , Hyeonjin Park , Jaewoo Kang , Jisu Jeong , Kyung-Min Kim , Jung-woo Ha , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely adopted in engineering applications such as social network analysis, chemical research and computer vision. However, their efficacy is severely compromised by the inherent homophily assumption,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yi Luo , Xu Sun , Guangchun Luo , Aiguo Chen

Graph Transformer is a new architecture that surpasses GNNs in graph learning. While there emerge inspiring algorithm advancements, their practical adoption is still limited, particularly on real-world graphs involving up to millions of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Meng Zhang , Jie Sun , Qinghao Hu , Peng Sun , Zeke Wang , Yonggang Wen , Tianwei Zhang

Graph transformers (GTs) have emerged as a promising architecture that is theoretically more expressive than message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs). However, typical GT models have at least quadratic complexity and thus cannot scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chenhui Deng , Zichao Yue , Zhiru Zhang

Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as powerful architectures for graph-structured data, yet remain constrained by rigid designs and lack quantifiable interpretability. Current state-of-the-art GTs commit to fixed GNN types across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shruti Sarika Chakraborty , Peter Minary

Attention mechanisms have become a cornerstone in modern neural networks, driving breakthroughs across diverse domains. However, their application to graph structured data, where capturing topological connections is essential, remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Rui Hou , Wenyu Chen , Zhao Kang

Graph learning architectures based on the k-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (k-WL) hierarchy offer a theoretically well-understood expressive power. However, such architectures often fail to deliver solid predictive performance on real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Luis Müller , Daniel Kusuma , Blai Bonet , Christopher Morris

Graph Transformers (GTs) have shown strong empirical performance, yet current architectures vary widely in their use of attention mechanisms, positional embeddings (PEs), and expressivity. Existing expressivity results are often tied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Timo Stoll , Luis Müller , Christopher Morris

The Transformer architecture has recently gained considerable attention in the field of graph representation learning, as it naturally overcomes several limitations of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with customized attention mechanisms or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jianqing Liang , Min Chen , Jiye Liang

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) has demonstrated the superior performance in many challenging applications, including the few-shot learning tasks. Despite its powerful capacity to learn and generalize the model from few samples, GNN usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hao Cheng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Wee Peng Tay , Bihan Wen

Graph Transformer is gaining increasing attention in the field of machine learning and has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks for graph representation learning. However, as current implementations of Graph Transformer…

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