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Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods have achieved impressive performance on node clustering task. However, they are designed on the homophilic assumption of graph and clustering on heterophilic graph is overlooked. Due to the lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

Graph pooling methods have been widely used on downsampling graphs, achieving impressive results on multiple graph-level tasks like graph classification and graph generation. An important line called node dropping pooling aims at exploiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gaichao Li , Jinsong Chen , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Graph neural networks get significant attention for graph representation and classification in machine learning community. Attention mechanism applied on the neighborhood of a node improves the performance of graph neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Manasvi Aggarwal , M. Narasimha Murty

In modern computer vision tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable for image classification tasks due to their efficiency and effectiveness. Part of their superiority compared to other architectures, comes from the fact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Vighnesh Birodkar , Hossein Mobahi , Dilip Krishnan , Samy Bengio

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton

We present a novel hierarchical graph clustering algorithm inspired by modularity-based clustering techniques. The algorithm is agglomerative and based on a simple distance between clusters induced by the probability of sampling node pairs.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Thomas Bonald , Bertrand Charpentier , Alexis Galland , Alexandre Hollocou

Characterizing shapes of high-dimensional objects via Ricci curvatures plays a critical role in many research areas in mathematics and physics. However, even though several discretizations of Ricci curvatures for discrete combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Bhaskar DasGupta , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

Feature learning on point clouds has shown great promise, with the introduction of effective and generalizable deep learning frameworks such as pointnet++. Thus far, however, point features have been abstracted in an independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Chu Wang , Babak Samari , Kaleem Siddiqi

Relationship between agents can be conveniently represented by graphs. When these relationships have different modalities, they are better modelled by multilayer graphs where each layer is associated with one modality. Such graphs arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and their message passing framework that leverages both structural and feature information, have become a standard method for solving graph-based machine learning problems. However, these approaches still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Simon Delarue , Thomas Bonald , Tiphaine Viard

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been shown to work effectively for modeling graph structured data to solve tasks such as node classification, link prediction and graph classification. There has been some recent progress in defining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ekagra Ranjan , Soumya Sanyal , Partha Pratim Talukdar

Graph clustering is essential in graph analysis for revealing structural patterns and node communities. Despite recent advances in self-supervised contrastive learning that have improved clustering via structural and attribute signals,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Lei Zhang , Fubo Sun , Haipeng Yang , Zhong Guan , Likang Wu

We introduce ORC-ManL, a new algorithm to prune spurious edges from nearest neighbor graphs using a criterion based on Ollivier-Ricci curvature and estimated metric distortion. Our motivation comes from manifold learning: we show that when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Luca Saidi , Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

A key component of many graph neural networks (GNNs) is the pooling operation, which seeks to reduce the size of a graph while preserving important structural information. However, most existing graph pooling strategies rely on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Mahsa Mesgaran , A. Ben Hamza

Graph neural networks have been widely used on modeling graph data, achieving impressive results on node classification and link prediction tasks. Yet, obtaining an accurate representation for a graph further requires a pooling function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jinheon Baek , Minki Kang , Sung Ju Hwang

Architectures for sparse hierarchical representation learning have recently been proposed for graph-structured data, but so far assume the absence of edge features in the graph. We close this gap and propose a method to pool graphs with…

In graph neural networks (GNNs), pooling operators compute local summaries of input graphs to capture their global properties, and they are fundamental for building deep GNNs that learn hierarchical representations. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

Downsampling produces coarsened, multi-resolution representations of data and it is used, for example, to produce lossy compression and visualization of large images, reduce computational costs, and boost deep neural representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Davide Bacciu , Alessio Conte , Francesco Landolfi

Recent years have witnessed the emergence and flourishing of hierarchical graph pooling neural networks (HGPNNs) which are effective graph representation learning approaches for graph level tasks such as graph classification. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Haoteng Tang , Guixiang Ma , Lifang He , Heng Huang , Liang Zhan