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Graph transformers (GTs) have emerged as a promising architecture that is theoretically more expressive than message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs). However, typical GT models have at least quadratic complexity and thus cannot scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chenhui Deng , Zichao Yue , Zhiru Zhang

We propose a generalization of transformer neural network architecture for arbitrary graphs. The original transformer was designed for Natural Language Processing (NLP), which operates on fully connected graphs representing all connections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Xavier Bresson

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully used in many problems involving graph-structured data, achieving state-of-the-art performance. GNNs typically employ a message-passing scheme, in which every node aggregates information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Michail Chatzianastasis , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , George Dasoulas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Recently the Transformer structure has shown good performances in graph learning tasks. However, these Transformer models directly work on graph nodes and may have difficulties learning high-level information. Inspired by the vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Han Gao , Xu Han , Jiaoyang Huang , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu

Hypergraphs play a pivotal role in the modelling of data featuring higher-order relations involving more than two entities. Hypergraph neural networks emerge as a powerful tool for processing hypergraph-structured data, delivering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zexi Liu , Bohan Tang , Ziyuan Ye , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

We present a novel graph Transformer generative adversarial network (GTGAN) to learn effective graph node relations in an end-to-end fashion for the challenging graph-constrained house generation task. The proposed graph-Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Tang , Zhenyu Zhang , Humphrey Shi , Bo Li , Ling Shao , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Graphs are widely used to model relational data. As graphs are getting larger and larger in real-world scenarios, there is a trend to store and compute subgraphs in multiple local systems. For example, recently proposed \emph{subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zaixi Zhang , Qingyong Hu , Yang Yu , Weibo Gao , Qi Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in addressing node classification tasks. However, the effectiveness of traditional GNNs degrades on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Asela Hevapathige , Asiri Wijesinghe , Ahad N. Zehmakan

Graph Transformer is gaining increasing attention in the field of machine learning and has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks for graph representation learning. However, as current implementations of Graph Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Wenhao Zhu , Tianyu Wen , Guojie Song , Xiaojun Ma , Liang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown impressive performance in graph representation learning, but they face challenges in capturing long-range dependencies due to their limited expressive power. To address this, Graph Transformers (GTs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kaan Sancak , Zhigang Hua , Jin Fang , Yan Xie , Andrey Malevich , Bo Long , Muhammed Fatih Balin , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

Previous studies have demonstrated the strong performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in node classification. However, most existing GNNs adopt a node-centric perspective and rely on global message passing, leading to high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Qian Zeng , Xin Lin , Jingyi Gao , Yang Yu

Transformers have achieved remarkable success across domains, motivating the rise of Graph Transformers (GTs) as attention-based architectures for graph-structured data. A key design choice in GTs is the use of Graph Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Javier Porras-Valenzuela , Zhiyang Wang , Xiaotao Shang , Yusu Wang , Alejandro Ribeiro

Transformer has been popular in recent crowd counting work since it breaks the limited receptive field of traditional CNNs. However, since crowd images always contain a large number of similar patches, the self-attention mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong , Qinnan Shangguan , Deyu Meng

Transformers have become widely used in various tasks, such as natural language processing and machine vision. This paper proposes Gransformer, an algorithm based on Transformer for generating graphs. We modify the Transformer encoder to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ahmad Khajenezhad , Seyed Ali Osia , Mahmood Karimian , Hamid Beigy

Recent studies have highlighted the limitations of message-passing based graph neural networks (GNNs), e.g., limited model expressiveness, over-smoothing, over-squashing, etc. To alleviate these issues, Graph Transformers (GTs) have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Qiheng Mao , Zemin Liu , Chenghao Liu , Jianling Sun

Graph Neural Networks are notorious for its memory consumption. A recent Transformer-based GNN called Graph Transformer is shown to obtain superior performances when long range dependencies exist. However, combining graph data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Eugene Ku

The graph Transformer emerges as a new architecture and has shown superior performance on various graph mining tasks. In this work, we observe that existing graph Transformers treat nodes as independent tokens and construct a single long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jinsong Chen , Kaiyuan Gao , Gaichao Li , Kun He

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have emerged as a popular and standard approach for learning from graph-structured data. The literature on GNN highlights the potential of this evolving research area and its widespread adoption in real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Sukhdeep Singh , Anuj Sharma , Vinod Kumar Chauhan

Graph Transformer has demonstrated impressive capabilities in the field of graph representation learning. However, existing approaches face two critical challenges: (1) most models suffer from exponentially increasing computational…

Graph transformers are the state-of-the-art for learning from graph-structured data and are empirically known to avoid several pitfalls of message-passing architectures. However, there is limited theoretical analysis on why these models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Nil Ayday , Lingchu Yang , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar