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With the widespread use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning from network data, the fairness of GNN models has raised great attention lately. Fair GNNs aim to ensure that node representations can be accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guixian Zhang , Guan Yuan , Debo Cheng , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li , Shichao Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be highly effective in various graph learning tasks. A key characteristic of GNNs is their use of a fixed number of message-passing steps for all nodes in the graph, regardless of each node's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yassine Abbahaddou , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has highlighted a relationship between high homophily (i.e., the tendency of nodes of the same class to connect) and strong predictive performance in node classification. However, recent work has found…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Donald Loveland , Jiong Zhu , Mark Heimann , Benjamin Fish , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great potential in graph data analysis due to their powerful representation capabilities. However, as the network depth increases, the issue of over-smoothing becomes more severe, causing node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kaichen Ouyang

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are instances of Graph Neural Networks that leverage the graph to send messages over the edges. This inductive bias leads to a phenomenon known as over-squashing, where a node feature is insensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Francesco Di Giovanni , Lorenzo Giusti , Federico Barbero , Giulia Luise , Pietro Lio' , Michael Bronstein

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated success in modeling relational data, especially for data that exhibits homophily: when a connection between nodes tends to imply that they belong to the same class. However, while this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Andreea Deac , Jian Tang

Numerous recent research on graph neural networks (GNNs) has focused on formulating GNN architectures as an optimization problem with the smoothness assumption. However, in node classification tasks, the smoothing effect induced by GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayu Zhai , Lequan Lin , Dai Shi , Junbin Gao

Message passing neural networks iteratively generate node embeddings by aggregating information from neighboring nodes. With increasing depth, information from more distant nodes is included. However, node embeddings may be unable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Franka Bause , Samir Moustafa , Johannes Langguth , Wilfried N. Gansterer , Nils M. Kriege

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 Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular deep learning models designed to process graph-structured data through recursive neighborhood aggregations in the message passing process. When applied to semi-supervised node classification, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kevin Mancini , Islem Rekik

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely applied in various fields due to their significant power on processing graph-structured data. Typical GCN and its variants work under a homophily assumption (i.e., nodes with same class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Tao Wang , Rui Wang , Di Jin , Dongxiao He , Yuxiao Huang

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved enormous success in multiple graph analytical tasks, modern variants mostly rely on the strong inductive bias of homophily. However, real-world networks typically exhibit both homophilic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jingwei Guo , Kaizhu Huang , Rui Zhang , Xinping Yi

While a growing body of literature has been studying new Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that work on both homophilic and heterophilic graphs, little has been done on adapting classical GNNs to less-homophilic graphs. Although the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shouheng Li , Dongwoo Kim , Qing Wang

Graph neural networks excel at graph representation learning but struggle with heterophilous data and long-range dependencies. And graph transformers address these issues through self-attention, yet face scalability and noise challenges on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xuanze Chen , Jiajun Zhou , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance for semi-supervised node classification on graphs, as a result of their ability to exploit node features and topological information simultaneously. However, most GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Guoji Fu , Peilin Zhao , Yatao Bian

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in many graph learning tasks. The main aspect powering existing GNNs is the multi-layer network architecture to learn the nonlinear graph representations for the specific learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Beibei Wang , Bo Jiang

Cellular sheaves equip graphs with a "geometrical" structure by assigning vector spaces and linear maps to nodes and edges. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) implicitly assume a graph with a trivial underlying sheaf. This choice is reflected in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Bodnar , Francesco Di Giovanni , Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , Pietro Liò , Michael M. Bronstein

Graph neural network (GNN) has shown convincing performance in learning powerful node representations that preserve both node attributes and graph structural information. However, many GNNs encounter problems in effectiveness and efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

Linearized Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted great attention in recent years for graph representation learning. Compared with nonlinear Graph Neural Network (GNN) models, linearized GNNs are much more time-efficient and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Yulin Zhu , Xing Ai , Qimai Li , Xiao-Ming Wu , Kai Zhou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) manifest pathologies including over-smoothing and limited discriminating power as a result of suboptimally expressive aggregating mechanisms. We herein present a unifying framework for stochastic aggregation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Yuanqing Wang , Theofanis Karaletsos