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Graph neural networks (GNNs), which learn the node representations by recursively aggregating information from its neighbors, have become a predominant computational tool in many domains. To handle large-scale graphs, most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu , Fan Yang , Zirui Liu , Rui Chen , Li Li , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

Label Smoothing (LS) is an effective regularizer to improve the generalization of state-of-the-art deep models. For each training sample the LS strategy smooths the one-hot encoded training signal by distributing its distribution mass over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Hongyu Guo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been predominant for graph learning tasks; however, recent studies showed that a well-known graph algorithm, Label Propagation (LP), combined with a shallow neural network can achieve comparable performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Zhiqiang Zhong , Sergey Ivanov , Jun Pang

Label noise is a common challenge in large datasets, as it can significantly degrade the generalization ability of deep neural networks. Most existing studies focus on noisy labels in computer vision; however, graph models encompass both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yao Cheng , Caihua Shan , Yifei Shen , Xiang Li , Siqiang Luo , Dongsheng Li

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

Last-layer retraining methods have emerged as an efficient framework for correcting existing base models. Within this framework, several methods have been proposed to deal with correcting models for subgroup fairness with and without group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Nathan Stromberg , Rohan Ayyagari , Sanmi Koyejo , Richard Nock , Lalitha Sankar

Manual labelling of training examples is common practice in supervised learning. When the labelling task is of non-trivial difficulty, the supplied labels may not be equal to the ground-truth labels, and label noise is introduced into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Daniel Ahfock , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Recent works reveal that feature or label smoothing lies at the core of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Concretely, they show feature smoothing combined with simple linear regression achieves comparable performance with the carefully designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Wentao Zhang , Mingyu Yang , Zeang Sheng , Yang Li , Wen Ouyang , Yangyu Tao , Zhi Yang , Bin Cui

Pseudo labeling (PL) is a wide-applied strategy to enlarge the labeled dataset by self-annotating the potential samples during the training process. Several works have shown that it can improve the graph learning model performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Botao Wang , Jia Li , Yang Liu , Jiashun Cheng , Yu Rong , Wenjia Wang , Fugee Tsung

In graph neural networks (GNNs), both node features and labels are examples of graph signals, a key notion in graph signal processing (GSP). While it is common in GSP to impose signal smoothness constraints in learning and estimation tasks,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Feng Ji , See Hian Lee , Kai Zhao , Wee Peng Tay , Jielong Yang

A scalable semi-supervised node classification method on graph-structured data, called GraphHop, is proposed in this work. The graph contains attributes of all nodes but labels of a few nodes. The classical label propagation (LP) method and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Tian Xie , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Labeling datasets is a noteworthy challenge in machine learning, both in terms of cost and time. This research, however, leverages an efficient answer. By exploring label propagation in semi-supervised learning, we can significantly reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Minoo Jafarlou , Mario M. Kubek

We propose a method, called Label Embedding Network, which can learn label representation (label embedding) during the training process of deep networks. With the proposed method, the label embedding is adaptively and automatically learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Xu Sun , Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma

In machine learning, one must acquire labels to help supervise a model that will be able to generalize to unseen data. However, the labeling process can be tedious, long, costly, and error-prone. It is often the case that most of our data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Bruno Klaus de Aquino Afonso , Lilian Berton

Deep learning models, especially convolutional neural networks, have achieved impressive results in medical image classification. However, these models often produce overconfident predictions, which can undermine their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kushan Choudhury , Shubhrodeep Roy , Ankur Chanda , Shubhajit Biswas , Somenath Kuiry

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for semi-supervised node classification on graphs. Nevertheless, the challenge of how to effectively learn GNNs with very few labels is still under-explored. As one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yayong Li , Jie Yin , Ling Chen

Regularization techniques are crucial to improving the generalization performance and training efficiency of deep neural networks. Many deep learning algorithms rely on weight decay, dropout, batch/layer normalization to converge faster and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Peng Lu , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Philippe Langlais

In the transductive setting, where the full graph is observed but node labels are only partially available, progress in semi-supervised node classification has largely focused on architectural innovation. In this paper, we revisit an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Brown Zaz , Mar Gonzàlez I Català , Ferran Hernandez Caralt , Moshe Eliasof , Pietro Liò

Class-imbalanced graph node classification is a practical yet underexplored research problem. Although recent studies have attempted to address this issue, they typically assume clean and reliable labels when processing class-imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Riting Xia , Rucong Wang , Yulin Liu , Anchen Li , Xueyan Liu , Yan Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification tasks. However, recent studies have revealed various biases in GNNs stemming from both node features and graph topology. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Haoyu Han , Xiaorui Liu , Feng Shi , MohamadAli Torkamani , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang