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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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in various tasks supported by their generalization capabilities. However, the current analysis of GNN generalization relies on the assumption that training and testing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiyang Wang , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to convolutional approaches for vision tasks such as image classification, leveraging patch-based representations instead of raw pixels. These methods construct graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nikolaos Chaidos , Angeliki Dimitriou , Nikolaos Spanos , Athanasios Voulodimos , Giorgos Stamou

Expressivity theory, characterizing which graphs a GNN can distinguish, has become the predominant framework for analyzing GNNs, with new models striving for higher expressivity. However, we argue that this focus is misguided: First, higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Niklas Kemper , Tom Wollschläger , Stephan Günnemann

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly described as being permutation equivariant with respect to node relabeling in the graph. This symmetry of GNNs is often compared to the translation equivariance of Euclidean convolution neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ningyuan Huang , Ron Levie , Soledad Villar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved a lot of success on graph-structured data. However, it is observed that the performance of graph neural networks does not improve as the number of layers increases. This effect, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Chen Cai , Yusu Wang

The recent successes and spread of large neural language models (LMs) call for a thorough understanding of their computational ability. Describing their computational abilities through LMs' \emph{representational capacity} is a lively area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Anej Svete , Franz Nowak , Anisha Mohamed Sahabdeen , Ryan Cotterell

In recent years, the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) on graph-structured data has prompted a surge of methods for explaining GNN predictions. However, the state-of-the-art for GNN explainability remains in flux. Different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jesse He , Akbar Rafiey , Gal Mishne , Yusu Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which learn the representation of a node by aggregating its neighbors, have become an effective computational tool in downstream applications. Over-smoothing is one of the key issues which limit the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Kaixiong Zhou , Xiao Huang , Yuening Li , Daochen Zha , Rui Chen , Xia Hu

Many real-world phenomena can be modeled as a graph, making them extremely valuable due to their ubiquitous presence. GNNs excel at capturing those relationships and patterns within these graphs, enabling effective learning and prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Abhinav Raghuvanshi , Kushal Sokke Malleshappa

Although theoretical properties such as expressive power and over-smoothing of graph neural networks (GNN) have been extensively studied recently, its convergence property is a relatively new direction. In this paper, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Chen Cai , Yusu Wang

This paper aims to analyze the generalization power of deep neural networks (DNNs) from the perspective of interactions. Unlike previous analysis of a DNN's generalization power in a highdimensional feature space, we find that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Lei Cheng , Junpeng Zhang , Qihan Ren , Quanshi Zhang

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have become a dominant flavor of graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. Yet, MPNNs come with notable limitations; namely, they are at most as powerful as the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Lingxiao Zhao , Louis Härtel , Neil Shah , Leman Akoglu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a class of machine-learning models that operate on graph-structured data. Their expressive power is intimately related to logics that are invariant under graded bisimilarity. Current proposals for recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jeroen Bollen , Jan Van den Bussche , Stijn Vansummeren , Jonni Virtema

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged recently as a powerful architecture for learning node and graph representations. Standard GNNs have the same expressive power as the Weisfeiler-Leman test of graph isomorphism in terms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Giannis Nikolentzos , George Dasoulas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

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

This paper studies four Graph Neural Network architectures (GNNs) for a graph classification task on a synthetic dataset created using classic generative models of Network Science. Since the synthetic networks do not contain (node or edge)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Walid Guettala , László Gulyás

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful machine learning models for various graph learning tasks. Recently, the limitations of the expressive power of various GNN models have been revealed. For example, GNNs cannot distinguish some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ryoma Sato , Makoto Yamada , Hisashi Kashima

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) recently became powerful tools in graph learning tasks, considerable efforts have been spent on improving GNNs' structural encoding ability. A particular line of work proposed subgraph GNNs that use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lecheng Kong , Jiarui Feng , Hao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to process data associated with graphs. They are finding an increasing range of applications; however, as with other modern machine learning techniques, their theoretical understanding is limited.…

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