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Homophily is a graph property describing the tendency of edges to connect similar nodes; the opposite is called heterophily. It is often believed that heterophilous graphs are challenging for standard message-passing graph neural networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Oleg Platonov , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Much data with graph structures satisfy the principle of homophily, meaning that connected nodes tend to be similar with respect to a specific attribute. As such, ubiquitous datasets for graph machine learning tasks have generally been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Derek Lim , Xiuyu Li , Felix Hohne , Ser-Nam Lim

Unveil the homophilic/heterophilic behaviors that characterize the wiring patterns of complex networks is an important task in social network analysis, often approached studying the assortative mixing of node attributes. Recent works…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Giulio Rossetti , Salvatore Citraro , Letizia Milli

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…

In networks, the well-documented tendency for people with similar characteristics to form connections is known as the principle of homophily. Being able to quantify homophily into a number has a significant real-world impact, ranging from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Shiva Oswal

Homophily, the tendency of individuals to connect with others who share similar attributes, is a defining feature of social networks. Understanding how groups interact, both within and across, is crucial for uncovering the dynamics of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Akrati Saxena , Gaurav Kumar , Chandrakala Meena

Existing multiplex graph models often assume homophily, where connected nodes tend to belong to the same class or share similar attributes. Consequently, these models may struggle with graphs exhibiting heterophily, where connected nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kamel Abdous , Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa

Graph homophily refers to the phenomenon that connected nodes tend to share similar characteristics. Understanding this concept and its related metrics is crucial for designing effective Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The most widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yilun Zheng , Sitao Luan , Lihui Chen

Homophily is the seemingly ubiquitous tendency for people to connect and interact with other individuals who are similar to them. This is a well-documented principle and is fundamental for how society organizes. Although many social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Graphs are structured data that models complex relations between real-world entities. Heterophilic graphs, where linked nodes are prone to be with different labels or dissimilar features, have recently attracted significant attention and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Chenghua Gong , Yao Cheng , Jianxiang Yu , Can Xu , Caihua Shan , Siqiang Luo , Xiang Li

Homophily, as a measure, has been critical to increasing our understanding of graph neural networks (GNNs). However, to date this measure has only been analyzed in the context of static graphs. In our work, we explore homophily in dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Michael Ito , Danai Koutra , Jenna Wiens

Homophily, the tendency of nodes from the same class to connect, is a fundamental property of real-world graphs, underpinning structural and semantic patterns in domains such as citation networks and social networks. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yan Jiang , Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang

A large driver of the complexity of graph learning is the interplay between structure and features. When analyzing the expressivity of graph neural networks, however, existing approaches ignore features in favor of structure, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Martin Carrasco , Olga Zaghen , Kavir Sumaraj , Erik Bekkers , Bastian Rieck

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

Homophily, the tendency of similar nodes to connect, is a fundamental phenomenon in network science and a critical factor in the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs). While existing studies primarily explore homophily in homogeneous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhen Tao , Ziyue Qiao , Chaoqi Chen , Zhengyi Yang , Lun Du , Qingqiang Sun

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

With the increasing prevalence of graph-structured data, multi-view graph clustering has been widely used in various downstream applications. Existing approaches primarily rely on a unified message passing mechanism, which significantly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jianpeng Chen , Yawen Ling , Yazhou Ren , Zichen Wen , Tianyi Wu , Shufei Zhang , Lifang He

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

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

Real-world complex systems are often better modeled as hypergraphs, where edges represent group interactions involving multiple entities. Understanding and quantifying homophily (similarity-driven association) in such networks is essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gaurav Kumar , Akrati Saxena , Chandrakala Meena
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