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While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

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Dynamic graph learning plays a pivotal role in modeling evolving relationships over time, especially for temporal link prediction tasks in domains such as traffic systems, social networks, and recommendation platforms. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tao Zou , Chengfeng Wu , Tianxi Liao , Junchen Ye , Bowen Du

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 structure learning is a well-established problem that aims at optimizing graph structures adaptive to specific graph datasets to help message passing neural networks (i.e., GNNs) to yield effective and robust node embeddings. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wentao Zhao , Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

Attention mechanisms have become a cornerstone in modern neural networks, driving breakthroughs across diverse domains. However, their application to graph structured data, where capturing topological connections is essential, remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Rui Hou , Wenyu Chen , Zhao Kang

Constructing appropriate representations of molecules lies at the core of numerous tasks such as material science, chemistry and drug designs. Recent researches abstract molecules as attributed graphs and employ graph neural networks (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jianwen Chen , Shuangjia Zheng , Ying Song , Jiahua Rao , Yuedong Yang

Simulating physics using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is predominantly driven by message-passing architectures, which face challenges in scaling and efficiency, particularly in handling large, complex meshes. These architectures have…

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Spectral graph neural networks (GNNs) learn graph representations via spectral-domain graph convolutions. However, most existing spectral graph filters are scalar-to-scalar functions, i.e., mapping a single eigenvalue to a single filtered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi , Lele Wang , Renjie Liao

The recent explosive interest on transformers has suggested their potential to become powerful "universal" models for computer vision tasks, such as classification, detection, and segmentation. While those attempts mainly study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yifan Jiang , Shiyu Chang , Zhangyang Wang

Transformers have demonstrated exceptional in-context learning capabilities, yet the theoretical understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains limited. A recent work (Elhage et al., 2021) identified a ``rich'' in-context mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mingze Wang , Ruoxi Yu , Weinan E , Lei Wu

We propose an extension to the transformer neural network architecture for general-purpose graph learning by adding a dedicated pathway for pairwise structural information, called edge channels. The resultant framework - which we call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Md Shamim Hussain , Mohammed J. Zaki , Dharmashankar Subramanian

Temporal graph neural networks (TGNNs) outperform regular GNNs by incorporating time information into graph-based operations. However, TGNNs adopt specialized models (e.g., TGN, TGAT, and APAN ) and require tailored training frameworks…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) aim to learn well-trained representations in a lower-dimension space for downstream tasks while preserving the topological structures. In recent years, attention mechanism, which is brilliant in the fields of…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered considerable interest within both academic and industrial. Yet, the application of LLMs to graph data remains under-explored. In this study, we evaluate the capabilities of four LLMs in addressing…

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Recently, graph neural networks have attracted great attention and achieved prominent performance in various research fields. Most of those algorithms have assumed pairwise relationships of objects of interest. However, in many real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Song Bai , Feihu Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr

The dominant graph neural networks (GNNs) over-rely on the graph links, several serious performance problems with which have been witnessed already, e.g., suspended animation problem and over-smoothing problem. What's more, the inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Jiawei Zhang , Haopeng Zhang , Congying Xia , Li Sun

We introduce a transformer-based GNN model, named UGformer, to learn graph representations. In particular, we present two UGformer variants, wherein the first variant (publicized in September 2019) is to leverage the transformer on a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

The study of Graph Neural Networks has received considerable interest in the past few years. By extending deep learning to graph-structured data, GNNs can solve a diverse set of tasks in fields including social science, chemistry, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ashwin Nalwade , Kelly Marshall , Axel Eladi , Umang Sharma