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Multi-hop reading comprehension across multiple documents attracts much attention recently. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to tackle this multi-hop reading comprehension problem. Inspired by human reasoning processing, we…

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Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) integrates structural connectivity with rich textual semantics, enabling applications in diverse domains. Current methods largely rely on contrastive learning to maximize cross-modal…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Heng Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu , Yaomin Shen , Zijian Zhang , Yilei Yuan , Hao Zhang , Jin Huang

Graph is an important data representation which appears in a wide diversity of real-world scenarios. Effective graph analytics provides users a deeper understanding of what is behind the data, and thus can benefit a lot of useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Social relations are often used to improve recommendation quality when user-item interaction data is sparse in recommender systems. Most existing social recommendation models exploit pairwise relations to mine potential user preferences.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Junliang Yu , Hongzhi Yin , Jundong Li , Qinyong Wang , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Xiangliang Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are limited in their propagation operators. In many cases, these operators often contain non-negative elements only and are shared across channels, limiting the expressiveness of GNNs. Moreover, some GNNs suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Moshe Eliasof , Lars Ruthotto , Eran Treister

In recent years, efforts have been made to use text information for better user profiling and item characterization in recommendations. However, text information can sometimes be of low quality, hindering its effectiveness for real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yingpeng Du , Ziyan Wang , Zhu Sun , Haoyan Chua , Hongzhi Liu , Zhonghai Wu , Yining Ma , Jie Zhang , Youchen Sun

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have succeeded in various computer science applications, yet deep GNNs underperform their shallow counterparts despite deep learning's success in other domains. Over-smoothing and over-squashing are key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jhony H. Giraldo , Konstantinos Skianis , Thierry Bouwmans , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Learning a graph topology to reveal the underlying relationship between data entities plays an important role in various machine learning and data analysis tasks. Under the assumption that structured data vary smoothly over a graph, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-23 Xingyue Pu , Tianyue Cao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen

Conventional statistical wisdom established a well-understood relationship between model complexity and prediction error, typically presented as a U-shaped curve reflecting a transition between under- and overfitting regimes. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Alicia Curth , Alan Jeffares , Mihaela van der Schaar

Neural Sheaf Diffusion (NSD) generalizes diffusion-based Graph Neural Networks by replacing scalar graph Laplacians with sheaf Laplacians whose learned restriction maps define a task-adapted geometry. While the diffusion limit of NSD is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arif Dönmez , Axel Mosig , Ellen Fritsche , Katharina Koch

In this paper, we consider topological featurizations of data defined over simplicial complexes, like images and labeled graphs, obtained by convolving this data with various filters before computing persistence. Viewing a convolution…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Elchanan Solomon , Paul Bendich

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been popular in the graph classification task. Currently, shallow GNNs are more common due to the well-known over-smoothing problem facing deeper GNNs. However, they are sub-optimal without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Lanning Wei , Zhiqiang He , Huan Zhao , Quanming Yao

Interpreting graph neural networks (GNNs) is difficult because message passing mixes signals and internal channels rarely align with human concepts. We study superposition, the sharing of directions by multiple features, directly in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lukas Pertl , Han Xuanyuan , Pietro Liò

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the most powerful weapon for various graph tasks due to the message-passing mechanism's great local information aggregation ability. However, over-smoothing has always hindered GNNs from going…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yundong Sun , Dongjie Zhu , Yansong Wang , Zhaoshuo Tian

Hypergraphs are structures that can be decomposed or described; in other words they are recursively countable. Here, we get exact and asymptotic enumeration results on hypergraphs by means of exponential generating functions. The number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-06-20 Tsiriniaina Andriamampianina

Recently there has been increased interest in semi-supervised classification in the presence of graphical information. A new class of learning models has emerged that relies, at its most basic level, on classifying the data after first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Aseem Baranwal , Kimon Fountoulakis , Aukosh Jagannath

Research on graph representation learning has received a lot of attention in recent years since many data in real-world applications come in form of graphs. High-dimensional graph data are often in irregular form, which makes them more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Fenxiao Chen , Yuncheng Wang , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In self-supervised representation learning, a common idea behind most of the state-of-the-art approaches is to enforce the robustness of the representations to predefined augmentations. A potential issue of this idea is the existence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Tianyu Hua , Wenxiao Wang , Zihui Xue , Sucheng Ren , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

The vanilla Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) uses a low-pass filter to extract low-frequency signals from graph topology, which may lead to the over-smoothing problem when GCN goes deep. To this end, various methods have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Huang , Haoyang Li , Yifan Zhang , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv

The weak-to-strong generalization phenomenon is the driver for important machine learning applications including highly data-efficient learning and, most recently, performing superalignment. While decades of research have resulted in…

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