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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

Dropout and DropConnect are well-known techniques that apply a consistent drop rate to randomly deactivate neurons or edges in a neural network layer during training. This paper introduces a novel methodology that assigns dynamic drop rates…

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We propose an adaptive graph coarsening method to jointly learn graph neural network (GNN) parameters and merge nodes via K-means clustering during training. As real-world graphs grow larger, processing them directly becomes increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Rostyslav Olshevskyi , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Graph Neural Networks have become one of the indispensable tools to learn from graph-structured data, and their usefulness has been shown in wide variety of tasks. In recent years, there have been tremendous improvements in architecture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-15 Sunil Kumar Maurya , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Perturbations targeting the graph structure have proven to be extremely effective in reducing the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and traditional defenses such as adversarial training do not seem to be able to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Simon Geisler , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

It is known that the current graph neural networks (GNNs) are difficult to make themselves deep due to the problem known as over-smoothing. Multi-scale GNNs are a promising approach for mitigating the over-smoothing problem. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

Several distributed frameworks have been developed to scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on billion-size graphs. On several benchmarks, we observe that the graph partitions generated by these frameworks have heterogeneous data distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dhruv Deshmukh , Gagan Raj Gupta , Manisha Chawla , Vishwesh Jatala , Anirban Haldar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a dominant paradigm for learning on graph-structured data, thanks to their ability to jointly exploit node features and relational information encoded in the graph topology. This joint modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yongyu Wang

Graph data are pervasive in many real-world applications. Recently, increasing attention has been paid on graph neural networks (GNNs), which aim to model the local graph structures and capture the hierarchical patterns by aggregating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Kwei-Herng Lai , Daochen Zha , Kaixiong Zhou , Xia Hu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) use a fully-connected layer to extract features from the nodes of a graph and aggregate these features using message passing between nodes, combining two distinct computational patterns: dense, regular…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Jacob R. Stevens , Dipankar Das , Sasikanth Avancha , Bharat Kaul , Anand Raghunathan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in addressing node classification tasks. However, the effectiveness of traditional GNNs degrades on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Asela Hevapathige , Asiri Wijesinghe , Ahad N. Zehmakan

Graph Neural Network (GNN) architectures are defined by their implementations of update and aggregation modules. While many works focus on new ways to parametrise the update modules, the aggregation modules receive comparatively little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ryan Kortvelesy , Steven Morad , Amanda Prorok

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zeyu Zhu , Fanrong Li , Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Zitao Mo , Qinghao Hu , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

Graph attention has demonstrated superior performance in graph learning tasks. However, learning from global interactions can be challenging due to the large number of nodes. In this paper, we discover a new phenomenon termed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Junshu Sun , Wanxing Chang , Chenxue Yang , Qingming Huang , Shuhui Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown to be powerful tools for graph analytics. The key idea is to recursively propagate and aggregate information along edges of the given graph. Despite their success, however, the existing GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Bo Zong , Jingchao Ni , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) are a class of powerful deep learning methods widely used to learn representations of heterogeneous graphs. Despite the fast development of HGNNs, they still face some challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xiao Yang , Xuejiao Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

Edge perturbation is a basic method to modify graph structures. It can be categorized into two veins based on their effects on the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), i.e., graph data augmentation and attack. Surprisingly, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Xin Liu , Yuxiang Zhang , Meng Wu , Mingyu Yan , Kun He , Wei Yan , Shirui Pan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

We analyze the performance of graph neural network (GNN) architectures from the perspective of random graph theory. Our approach promises to complement existing lenses on GNN analysis, such as combinatorial expressive power and worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Drake Brown , Trevor Garrity , Kaden Parker , Jason Oliphant , Stone Carson , Cole Hanson , Zachary Boyd

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) exhibit strong biases towards the node degree: they usually perform satisfactorily on high-degree nodes with rich neighbor information but struggle with low-degree nodes. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Wenhao Yu , Neil Shah , Yanfang Ye

We propose a unified framework for adaptive connection sampling in graph neural networks (GNNs) that generalizes existing stochastic regularization methods for training GNNs. The proposed framework not only alleviates over-smoothing and…