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Popular graph neural networks are shallow models, despite the success of very deep architectures in other application domains of deep learning. This reduces the modeling capacity and leaves models unable to capture long-range relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andreas Roth , Thomas Liebig

The complicated syntax structure of natural language is hard to be explicitly modeled by sequence-based models. Graph is a natural structure to describe the complicated relation between tokens. The recent advance in Graph Neural Networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wei Li , Shuheng Li , Shuming Ma , Yancheng He , Deli Chen , Xu Sun

Graph pre-training strategies have been attracting a surge of attention in the graph mining community, due to their flexibility in parameterizing graph neural networks (GNNs) without any label information. The key idea lies in encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dawei Zhou , Lecheng Zheng , Dongqi Fu , Jiawei Han , Jingrui He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful deep learning methods for Non-Euclidean data. Popular GNNs are message-passing algorithms (MPNNs) that aggregate and combine signals in a local graph neighborhood. However, shallow MPNNs tend to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-08 Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar , Carey E. Priebe , Da Zheng , Chengyue Huang , Lin Yang , Vladimir Braverman

We present Gradient Gating (G$^2$), a novel framework for improving the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Our framework is based on gating the output of GNN layers with a mechanism for multi-rate flow of message passing…

State-of-the-art Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have limited scalability with respect to the graph and model sizes. On large graphs, increasing the model depth often means exponential expansion of the scope (i.e., receptive field). Beyond…

Many applications of machine learning require a model to make accurate pre-dictions on test examples that are distributionally different from training ones, while task-specific labels are scarce during training. An effective approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Weihua Hu , Bowen Liu , Joseph Gomes , Marinka Zitnik , Percy Liang , Vijay Pande , Jure Leskovec

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been extensively used for mining graph-structured data with impressive performance. However, because these traditional GNNs do not distinguish among various downstream tasks, embeddings embedded by them are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Jianpeng Chen , Yujing Wang , Ming Zeng , Zongyi Xiang , Bitan Hou , Yunhai Tong , Ole J. Mengshoel , Yazhou Ren

Deep Graph Neural Networks struggle with oversmoothing. This paper introduces a novel, physics-inspired GNN model designed to mitigate this issue. Our approach integrates with existing GNN architectures, introducing an entropy-aware message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Philipp Nazari , Oliver Lemke , Davide Guidobene , Artiom Gesp

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data, but their scalability is increasingly strained by the size of real-world graphs in domains like recommender systems, fraud detection, and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mridul Gupta , Samyak Jain , Vansh Ramani , Hariprasad Kodamana , Sayan Ranu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) had been demonstrated to be inherently susceptible to the problems of over-smoothing and over-squashing. These issues prohibit the ability of GNNs to model complex graph interactions by limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Khang Nguyen , Hieu Nong , Vinh Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Stanley Osher , Tan Nguyen

Recently, the paradigm of pre-training and fine-tuning graph neural networks has been intensively studied and applied in a wide range of graph mining tasks. Its success is generally attributed to the structural consistency between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yifei Sun , Qi Zhu , Yang Yang , Chunping Wang , Tianyu Fan , Jiajun Zhu , Lei Chen

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

Extracting informative representations of molecules using Graph neural networks (GNNs) is crucial in AI-driven drug discovery. Recently, the graph research community has been trying to replicate the success of self-supervised pretraining in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Ruoxi Sun , Hanjun Dai , Adams Wei Yu

Spectral Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) suffer from two critical limitations: poor performance on "heterophilic" graphs and performance collapse at high polynomial degrees (K), known as over-smoothing. Both issues stem from the static,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Huseyin Goksu

End-to-end training of graph neural networks (GNN) on large graphs presents several memory and computational challenges, and limits the application to shallow architectures as depth exponentially increases the memory and space complexities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Oscar Pina , Verónica Vilaplana

Recently over-smoothing phenomenon of Transformer-based models is observed in both vision and language fields. However, no existing work has delved deeper to further investigate the main cause of this phenomenon. In this work, we make the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Han Shi , Jiahui Gao , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Lingpeng Kong , Stephen M. S. Lee , James T. Kwok

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning node embeddings in graphs, typically adopting a message-passing scheme. This approach, however, leads to the neighbor explosion problem, with exponentially growing computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zichao Yue , Chenhui Deng , Zhiru Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved success in various inference tasks on graph-structured data. However, common challenges faced by many GNNs in the literature include the problem of graph node embedding under various geometries and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Qiyu Kang , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Sijie Wang , Rui She , Wee Peng Tay

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the most powerful weapon for various graph tasks due to the message-passing mechanism's great local information aggregation ability. However, over-smoothing has always hindered GNNs from going…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yundong Sun , Dongjie Zhu , Yansong Wang , Zhaoshuo Tian