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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) exploit signals from node features and the input graph topology to improve node classification task performance. However, these models tend to perform poorly on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Vijay Lingam , Chanakya Ekbote , Manan Sharma , Rahul Ragesh , Arun Iyer , Sundararajan Sellamanickam

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in node classification tasks but often assume homophily, where connected nodes share similar labels. This assumption does not hold in many real-world heterophilic graphs. Existing models for heterophilic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yumeng Wang , Zengyi Wo , Wenjun Wang , Xingcheng Fu , Minglai Shao

The decoupled Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), a recent development of GCN that decouples the neighborhood aggregation and feature transformation in each convolutional layer, has shown promising performance for graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jinsong Chen , Boyu Li , Kun He

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has achieved extraordinary success in learning effective task-specific representations of nodes in graphs. However, regarding Heterogeneous Information Network (HIN), existing HIN-oriented GCN methods still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yaming Yang , Ziyu Guan , Jianxin Li , Wei Zhao , Jiangtao Cui , Quan Wang

Since heterogeneity presents a fundamental challenge in graph federated learning, many existing methods are proposed to deal with node feature heterogeneity and structure heterogeneity. However, they overlook the critical homophily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Wentao Yu

Representation learning on heterogeneous graphs aims to obtain meaningful node representations to facilitate various downstream tasks, such as node classification and link prediction. Existing heterogeneous graph learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Le Yu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv , Hui Xiong

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successful in handling heterogeneous graphs. In existing heterogeneous GNNs, meta-path plays an essential role. However, recent work pointed out that simple homogeneous graph model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Guanghui Zhu , Zhennan Zhu , Hongyang Chen , Chunfeng Yuan , Yihua Huang

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have achieved great success on graph-structured data. Many graph convolutional networks can be thought of as low-pass filters for graph signals. In this paper, we propose a more powerful graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhixian Chen , Tengfei Ma , Zhihua Jin , Yangqiu Song , Yang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) show strong expressive power on graph data mining, by aggregating information from neighbors and using the integrated representation in the downstream tasks. The same aggregation methods and parameters for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xiaojun Ma , Qin Chen , Yuanyi Ren , Guojie Song , Liang Wang

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 convolution networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized in various graph tasks to mine knowledge from spatial data. Our study marks the pioneering attempt to quantitatively investigate the GCN robustness over omnipresent heterophilic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chenyang Qiu , Guoshun Nan , Tianyu Xiong , Wendi Deng , Di Wang , Zhiyang Teng , Lijuan Sun , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

Recent studies on Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) provide both empirical and theoretical evidence supporting their effectiveness in capturing structural patterns on both homophilic and certain heterophilic graphs. Notably, most real-world…

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Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants have been receiving many research interests for learning graph-related tasks. While the GCNs have been successfully applied to this problem, some caveats inherited from…

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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

Recently, many carefully crafted graph representation learning methods have achieved impressive performance on either strong heterophilic or homophilic graphs, but not both. Therefore, they are incapable of generalizing well across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

The information diffusion performance of GCN and its variant models is limited by the adjacency matrix, which can lower their performance. Therefore, we introduce a new framework for graph convolutional networks called Hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Zhi Yang , Kang Li , Haitao Gan , Zhongwei Huang , Ming Shi

Graph contrastive learning (CL) methods learn node representations in a self-supervised manner by maximizing the similarity between the augmented node representations obtained via a GNN-based encoder. However, CL methods perform poorly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Wenhan Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular class of machine learning models whose major advantage is their ability to incorporate a sparse and discrete dependency structure between data points. Unfortunately, GNNs can only be used when such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Luca Franceschi , Mathias Niepert , Massimiliano Pontil , Xiao He

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods have achieved impressive performance on node clustering task. However, they are designed on the homophilic assumption of graph and clustering on heterophilic graph is overlooked. Due to the lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

In representation learning on the graph-structured data, under heterophily (or low homophily), many popular GNNs may fail to capture long-range dependencies, which leads to their performance degradation. To solve the above-mentioned issue,…

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