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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become popular across a diverse set of tasks in exploring structural relationships between entities. However, due to the highly connected structure of the datasets, distributed training of GNNs on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Arefin Niam , Tevfik Kosar , M S Q Zulkar Nine

In recent years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved great success in learning from graph-structured data. With the growing tendency of graph nodes and edges, GCN training by single processor cannot meet the demand for time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Taige Zhao , Xiangyu Song , Jianxin Li , Wei Luo , Imran Razzak

Training graph neural networks on large datasets has long been a challenge. Traditional approaches include efficiently representing the whole graph in-memory, designing parameter efficient and sampling-based models, and graph partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Dmytro Lopushanskyy , Borun Shi

Training Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) on a large monolithic graph presents unique challenges as the graph cannot fit within a single machine and it cannot be decomposed into smaller disconnected components. Distributed sampling-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Hesham Mostafa , Adam Grabowski , Md Asadullah Turja , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro , Nageen Himayat

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a form of deep learning that enable a wide range of machine learning applications on graph-structured data. The learning of GNNs, however, is known to pose challenges for memory-constrained devices such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jeroen Bollen , Jasper Steegmans , Jan Van den Bussche , Stijn Vansummeren

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful deep learning models to generate node embeddings on graphs. When applying deep GNNs on large graphs, it is still challenging to perform training in an efficient and scalable way. We propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hanqing Zeng , Hongkuan Zhou , Ajitesh Srivastava , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Distributed training of GNNs enables learning on massive graphs (e.g., social and e-commerce networks) that exceed the storage and computational capacity of a single machine. To reach performance comparable to centralized training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Jiong Zhu , Aishwarya Reganti , Edward Huang , Charles Dickens , Nikhil Rao , Karthik Subbian , Danai Koutra

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for solving graph-related problems. Distributed GNN frameworks and systems enhance the scalability of GNNs and accelerate model training, yet most are optimized for node classification. Their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xin Huang , Chul-Ho Lee

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a computationally efficient method to learn embeddings and classifications on graph data. However, GNN training has low computational intensity, making communication costs the bottleneck for scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ujjaini Mukhodopadhyay , Alok Tripathy , Oguz Selvitopi , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

Despite the recent success of Graph Neural Networks, it remains challenging to train a GNN on large graphs with millions of nodes and billions of edges, which are prevalent in many graph-based applications. Traditional sampling-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zheng Chai , Guangji Bai , Liang Zhao , Yue Cheng

Training Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) is expensive as it needs to aggregate data recursively from neighboring nodes. To reduce the computation overhead, previous works have proposed various neighbor sampling methods that estimate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Peng Jiang , Masuma Akter Rumi

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), particularly for large-scale graphs, are crucial across numerous domains. However, training distributed full-batch GCNs on large-scale graphs suffers from inefficient memory access patterns and high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Jiajun Huang , Xin Liu , Rio Yokota , Nikoli Dryden , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in diverse domains. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs poses significant challenges due to high memory demands and significant communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Arefin Niam , M S Q Zulkar Nine

Full-batch training on Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to learn the structure of large graphs is a critical problem that needs to scale to hundreds of compute nodes to be feasible. It is challenging due to large memory capacity and bandwidth…

Communication is a key bottleneck for distributed graph neural network (GNN) training. This paper proposes GNNPipe, a new approach that scales the distributed full-graph deep GNN training. Being the first to use layer-level model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingji Chen , Zhuoming Chen , Xuehai Qian

Due to the substantial computational cost, training state-of-the-art deep neural networks for large-scale datasets often requires distributed training using multiple computation workers. However, by nature, workers need to frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yusuke Tsuzuku , Hiroto Imachi , Takuya Akiba

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are deep learning models designed specifically for graph data, and they typically rely on node features as the input to the first layer. When applying such a type of network on the graph without node features,…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn representations from network data with naturally distributed architectures, rendering them well-suited candidates for decentralized learning. Oftentimes, this decentralized graph support changes with time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhan Gao , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

Developing scalable solutions for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for link prediction tasks is challenging due to the high data dependencies which entail high computational cost and huge memory footprint. We propose a new method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Nasrullah Sheikh , Xiao Qin , Berthold Reinwald , Chuan Lei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a new and increasingly popular family of deep neural network architectures to perform learning on graphs. Training them efficiently is challenging due to the irregular nature of graph data. The problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Marco Serafini , Hui Guan