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For large-scale applications, there is growing interest in replacing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) via knowledge distillation. However, distilling GNNs for self-supervised graph representation…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown satisfying performance on various graph learning tasks. To achieve better fitting capability, most GNNs are with a large number of parameters, which makes these GNNs computationally expensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Yushun Dong , Binchi Zhang , Yiling Yuan , Na Zou , Qi Wang , Jundong Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a teacher network to a student by enforcing the student to mimic the outputs of the pretrained teacher on training data. However, data samples are not always accessible in many cases due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Deng , Zhongfei Zhang

How can we learn effective node representations on textual graphs? Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that use Language Models (LMs) to encode textual information of graphs achieve state-of-the-art performance in many node classification tasks.…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in modeling graph structured data, owing to its impressive performance in a wide range of practical applications. Recently, knowledge distillation (KD) for GNNs has enabled remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuanxin Zhuang , Lingjuan Lyu , Chuan Shi , Carl Yang , Lichao Sun

Graph unlearning has emerged as a pivotal method to delete information from a pre-trained graph neural network (GNN). One may delete nodes, a class of nodes, edges, or a class of edges. An unlearning method enables the GNN model to comply…

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Knowledge distillation (KD) has demonstrated its effectiveness to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where its goal is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kaituo Feng , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

To bridge the gaps between topology-aware Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and inference-efficient Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLPs), GLNN proposes to distill knowledge from a well-trained teacher GNN into a student MLP. Despite their great…

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Semi-supervised learning on graphs is an important problem in the machine learning area. In recent years, state-of-the-art classification methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown their superiority over traditional ones such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Cheng Yang , Jiawei Liu , Chuan Shi

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown to be effective to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where the typical objective is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Kaituo Feng , Yikun Miao , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Despite plentiful successes achieved by graph representation learning in various domains, the training of graph neural networks (GNNs) still remains tenaciously challenging due to the tremendous computational overhead needed for sizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Renchi Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular for graph machine learning and have shown great results on wide node classification tasks. Yet, they are less popular for practical deployments in the industry owing to their scalability challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shichang Zhang , Yozen Liu , Yizhou Sun , Neil Shah

Integrating the structural inductive biases of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with the global contextual modeling capabilities of Transformers represents a pivotal challenge in graph representation learning. While GNNs excel at capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhihua Duan , Jialin Wang

Object detection in documents is a key step to automate the structural elements identification process in a digital or scanned document through understanding the hierarchical structure and relationships between different elements. Large and…

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The message-passing mechanism helps Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable results on various node classification tasks. Nevertheless, the recursive nodes fetching and aggregation in message-passing cause inference latency when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jie Chen , Shouzhen Chen , Mingyuan Bai , Junbin Gao , Junping Zhang , Jian Pu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at transferring knowledge from a larger well-optimized teacher network to a smaller learnable student network.Existing KD methods have mainly considered two types of knowledge, namely the individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sheng Zhou , Yucheng Wang , Defang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xin Wang , Can Wang , Jiajun Bu

Albeit with varying degrees of progress in the field of Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation, most of its recent successes are involved in unwieldy models and the lightweight solution is still not yet explored. We find that existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Ming Li , Xuefeng Xiao , Min Zheng , Xingang Wang

Recent success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in modeling complex graph-structured data has fueled interest in deploying them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, their substantial computational and memory demands present ongoing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Can Cui , Zilong Fu , Penghe Huang , Yuanyuan Li , Wu Deng , Dongyan Li

GNN-to-MLP (G2M) methods have emerged as a promising approach to accelerate Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by distilling their knowledge into simpler Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). These methods bridge the gap between the expressive power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Weigang Lu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang , Yujie Sun , Zheng Liang , Yibing Zhan , Dapeng Tao

Recent years have witnessed great success in handling graph-related tasks with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Despite their great academic success, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial…

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