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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) rely on graph convolutions to exploit meaningful patterns in networked data. Based on matrix multiplications, convolutions incur in high computational costs leading to scalability limitations in practice. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Juan Cervino , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph classification is a pivotal challenge in machine learning, especially within the realm of graph-based data, given its importance in numerous real-world applications such as social network analysis, recommendation systems, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Bowen Zhang , Zhichao Huang , Genan Dai , Guangning Xu , Xiaomao Fan , Hu Huang

In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised graph representation learning by harnessing the control properties of dynamical networks defined on graphs. Our approach introduces a novel framework for contrastive learning, a widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Anwar Said , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

The demand for data privacy has led to the development of frameworks like Federated Graph Learning (FGL), which facilitate decentralized model training. However, a significant operational challenge in such systems is adhering to the right…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuming Ai , Xunkai Li , Jiaqi Chao , Bowen Fan , Zhengyu Wu , Yinlin Zhu , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Recently, graph prompt learning has garnered increasing attention in adapting pre-trained GNN models for downstream graph learning tasks. However, existing works generally conduct prompting over all graph elements (e.g., nodes, edges, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bo Jiang , Hao Wu , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Uncertain graphs are prevalent in several applications including communications systems, biological databases and social networks. The ever increasing size of the underlying data renders both graph storage and query processing extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Panos Parchas , Nikolaos Papailiou , Dimitris Papadias , Francesco Bonchi

We propose a statistical model for graphs with a core-periphery structure. To do this we define a precise notion of what it means for a graph to have this structure, based on the sparsity properties of the subgraphs of core and periphery…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-23 Cian Naik , François Caron , Judith Rousseau

We present a supervised-learning algorithm from graph data (a set of graphs) for arbitrary twice-differentiable loss functions and sparse linear models over all possible subgraph features. To date, it has been shown that under all possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-21 Ichigaku Takigawa , Hiroshi Mamitsuka

Minimum spanning trees and forests are powerful sparsification techniques that remove cycles from weighted graphs to minimize total edge weight while preserving node connectivity. They have applications in computer science, network science,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jordan C Rozum , Luis M Rocha

Graph foundation models have recently attracted significant attention due to its strong generalizability. Although existing methods resort to language models to learn unified semantic representations across domains, they disregard the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yao Cheng , Yige Zhao , Jianxiang Yu , Xiang Li

A common practice in transfer learning is to initialize the downstream model weights by pre-training on a data-abundant upstream task. In object detection specifically, the feature backbone is typically initialized with Imagenet classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Cristina Vasconcelos , Vighnesh Birodkar , Vincent Dumoulin

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown prominent performance in graph representation learning by leveraging knowledge from both graph structure and node features. However, most of them have two major limitations. First, GNNs can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Wentao Zhang , Zeang Sheng , Mingyu Yang , Yang Li , Yu Shen , Zhi Yang , Bin Cui

Graphs are fundamental mathematical structures used in various fields to represent data, signals and processes. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning/estimating graphs from data. The proposed framework includes (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Hilmi E. Egilmez , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

Numerous important problems can be framed as learning from graph data. We propose a framework for learning convolutional neural networks for arbitrary graphs. These graphs may be undirected, directed, and with both discrete and continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Mathias Niepert , Mohamed Ahmed , Konstantin Kutzkov

Even pruned by the state-of-the-art network compression methods, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) training upon non-Euclidean graph data often encounters relatively higher time costs, due to its irregular and nasty density properties, compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chunhui Zhang , Chao Huang , Yijun Tian , Qianlong Wen , Zhongyu Ouyang , Youhuan Li , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a self-supervised learning method to enhance the graph-level representations with the help of a set of subgraphs. For this purpose, we propose a universal framework to generate subgraphs in an auto-regressive way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Chenguang Wang , Ziwen Liu

Graph neural networks have been successful for machine learning, as well as for combinatorial and graph problems such as the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem and the Traveling Salesman Problem. We describe an approach for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Alvin Chiu , Mithun Ghosh , Reyan Ahmed , Kwang-Sung Jun , Stephen Kobourov , Michael T. Goodrich

Formation mechanisms are fundamental to the study of complex networks, but learning them from observations is challenging. In real-world domains, one often has access only to the final constructed graph, instead of the full construction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Rakshit Trivedi , Jiachen Yang , Hongyuan Zha

We provide novel guaranteed approaches for training feedforward neural networks with sparse connectivity. We leverage on the techniques developed previously for learning linear networks and show that they can also be effectively adopted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

A graph convolutional network (GCN) employs a graph filtering kernel tailored for data with irregular structures. However, simply stacking more GCN layers does not improve performance; instead, the output converges to an uninformative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Jin Zeng , Yang Liu , Gene Cheung , Wei Hu