English
Related papers

Related papers: Re-evaluating the Advancements of Heterophilic Gra…

200 papers

Homophily principle, \ie{} nodes with the same labels or similar attributes are more likely to be connected, has been commonly believed to be the main reason for the superiority of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over traditional Neural…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend basic Neural Networks (NNs) by using the graph structures based on the relational inductive bias (homophily assumption). Though GNNs are believed to outperform NNs in real-world tasks, performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sitao Luan , Chenqing Hua , Qincheng Lu , Jiaqi Zhu , Mingde Zhao , Shuyuan Zhang , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup

Node classification is a classical graph machine learning task on which Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently achieved strong results. However, it is often believed that standard GNNs only work well for homophilous graphs, i.e., graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Oleg Platonov , Denis Kuznedelev , Michael Diskin , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in semi-supervised node classification tasks. Despite this, two primary challenges persist: heterogeneity and heterophily. Each of these two challenges can significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Kangkang Lu , Yanhua Yu , Zhiyong Huang , Yunshan Ma , Xiao Wang , Meiyu Liang , Yuling Wang , Yimeng Ren , Tat-Seng Chua

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great prowess in learning representations suitable for numerous graph-based machine learning tasks. When applied to semi-supervised node classification, GNNs are widely believed to work well due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Yao Ma , Xiaorui Liu , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend basic Neural Networks (NNs) by using graph structures based on the relational inductive bias (homophily assumption). While GNNs have been commonly believed to outperform NNs in real-world tasks, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Sitao Luan , Chenqing Hua , Qincheng Lu , Jiaqi Zhu , Mingde Zhao , Shuyuan Zhang , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup

Recent years have witnessed fast developments of graph neural networks (GNNs) that have benefited myriad graph analytic tasks and applications. Most GNNs rely on the homophily assumption that nodes belonging to the same class are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xin Zheng , Yi Wang , Yixin Liu , Ming Li , Miao Zhang , Di Jin , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Under circumstances of heterophily, where nodes with different labels tend to be connected based on semantic meanings, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often exhibit suboptimal performance. Current studies on graph heterophily mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yilun Zheng , Jiahao Xu , Lihui Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proved powerful in graph-oriented tasks. However, many real-world graphs are heterophilous, challenging the homophily assumption of classical GNNs. To solve the universality problem, many studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Shengbo Gong , Jiajun Zhou , Chenxuan Xie , Qi Xuan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs often struggle with heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes tend to have dissimilar features or labels. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ruizhong Qiu , Ting-Wei Li , Gaotang Li , Hanghang Tong

Heterophily, or the tendency of connected nodes in networks to have different class labels or dissimilar features, has been identified as challenging for many Graph Neural Network (GNN) models. While the challenges of applying GNNs for node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jiong Zhu , Gaotang Li , Yao-An Yang , Jing Zhu , Xuehao Cui , Danai Koutra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often assume strong homophily for graph classification, seldom considering heterophily, which means connected nodes tend to have different class labels and dissimilar features. In real-world scenarios, graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiayi Yang , Sourav Medya , Wei Ye

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be useful for many different practical applications. However, many existing GNN models have implicitly assumed homophily among the nodes connected in the graph, and therefore have largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiong Zhu , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Tung Mai , Nedim Lipka , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Danai Koutra

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs often struggle with heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes tend to have dissimilar features or labels. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruizhong Qiu , Ting-Wei Li , Gaotang Li , Hanghang Tong

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has highlighted a relationship between high homophily (i.e., the tendency of nodes of the same class to connect) and strong predictive performance in node classification. However, recent work has found…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Donald Loveland , Jiong Zhu , Mark Heimann , Benjamin Fish , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular machine learning methods for modeling graph data. A lot of GNNs perform well on homophily graphs while having unsatisfactory performance on heterophily graphs. Recently, some researchers turn their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Wendong Bi , Lun Du , Qiang Fu , Yanlin Wang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at analyzing graph-structured data but struggle on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different classes. While this challenge is commonly addressed with specialized GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Harel Mendelman , Haggai Maron , Ronen Talmon

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle with heterophilic data, where connected nodes may have dissimilar labels, as they typically assume homophily and rely on local message passing. To address this, we propose creating alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Victor M. Tenorio , Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Real-world graphs are typically complex, exhibiting heterogeneity in the global structure, as well as strong heterophily within local neighborhoods. While a growing body of literature has revealed the limitations of common graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jintang Li , Zheng Wei , Jiawang Dan , Jing Zhou , Yuchang Zhu , Ruofan Wu , Baokun Wang , Zhang Zhen , Changhua Meng , Hong Jin , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

With the rapid development of the World Wide Web (WWW), heterogeneous graphs (HG) have explosive growth. Recently, heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN) has shown great potential in learning on HG. Current studies of HGNN mainly focus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Jiayan Guo , Lun Du , Wendong Bi , Qiang Fu , Xiaojun Ma , Xu Chen , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Yan Zhang
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›