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The most prevalent class of neural networks operating on graphs are message passing neural networks (MPNNs), in which the representation of a node is updated iteratively by aggregating information in the 1-hop neighborhood. Since this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Floor Eijkelboom , Erik Bekkers , Michael Bronstein , Francesco Di Giovanni

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant promise in modelling relational data and have been widely applied in various fields of interest. The key mechanism behind GNNs is the so-called message passing where information is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Andi Han , Dai Shi , Lequan Lin , Junbin Gao

As deep neural networks (DNNs) get adopted in an ever-increasing number of applications, explainability has emerged as a crucial desideratum for these models. In many real-world tasks, one of the principal reasons for requiring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Vedant Nanda , Till Speicher , John P. Dickerson , Krishna P. Gummadi , Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Despite the widespread success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), understanding the reasons behind their specific predictions remains challenging. Existing explainability methods face a trade-off that gradient-based approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Bizu Feng , Zhimu Yang , Shaode Yu , Zixin Hu

It has been observed that message-passing graph neural networks (GNN) sometimes struggle to maintain a healthy balance between the efficient/scalable modeling of long-range dependencies across nodes while avoiding unintended consequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yongyi Yang , Tang Liu , Yangkun Wang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf

Hybrid quantum neural networks (HQNNs) integrate parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) within classical networks, where the behavior of the underlying PQCs is often the primary focus of analysis. In this context, expressibility and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Muhammad Kashif , Muhammad Shafique

Long-range interactions are essential for the correct description of complex systems in many scientific fields. The price to pay for including them in the calculations, however, is a dramatic increase in the overall computational costs.…

We study the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) with mean as the aggregation function, with the following results. In the non-uniform setting, such GNNs have exactly the same expressive power as ratio modal logic, which has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Moritz Schönherr , Carsten Lutz

Advancing trustworthy AI requires principled software engineering approaches to model evaluation. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in processing graph-structured data, however, their expressiveness in capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sicong Che , Jiayi Yang , Sarfraz Khurshid , Wenxi Wang

Hypergraphs are widely adopted tools to examine systems with higher-order interactions. Despite recent advancements in methods for community detection in these systems, we still lack a theoretical analysis of their detectability limits.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are highly effective on a variety of graph-related tasks; however, they lack interpretability and transparency. Current explainability approaches are typically local and treat GNNs as black-boxes. They do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Han Xuanyuan , Pietro Barbiero , Dobrik Georgiev , Lucie Charlotte Magister , Pietro Lió

Recently, neural network based approaches have achieved significant improvement for solving large, complex, graph-structured problems. However, their bottlenecks still need to be addressed, and the advantages of multi-scale information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Sitao Luan , Mingde Zhao , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup

While message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have convincing success in a range of applications, they exhibit limitations such as the oversquashing problem and their inability to capture long-range interactions. Augmenting MPNNs with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Joshua Southern , Francesco Di Giovanni , Michael Bronstein , Johannes F. Lutzeyer

Machine learning tasks are generally formulated as optimization problems, where one searches for an optimal function within a certain functional space. In practice, parameterized functional spaces are considered, in order to be able to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Manon Verbockhaven , Sylvain Chevallier , Guillaume Charpiat , Théo Rudkiewicz

Despite their success in various domains, the growing dependence on GNNs raises a critical concern about the nature of the combinatorial reasoning underlying their predictions, which is often hidden within their black-box architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yue Niu , Zhaokai Sun , Jiayi Yang , Xiaofeng Cao , Rui Fan , Xin Sun , Hanli Wang , Wei Ye

Compositionality is thought to be a key component of language, and various compositional benchmarks have been developed to empirically probe the compositional generalization of existing sequence processing models. These benchmarks often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Parikshit Ram , Tim Klinger , Alexander G. Gray

Multi-token prediction (MTP) is a prominent strategy to significantly speed up generation in large language models (LLMs), including byte-level LLMs, which are tokeniser-free but prohibitively slow. However, existing MTP methods often…

Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs) have garnered attention for addressing various industry challenges, such as user recommendation and fraud detection. However, they face two major hurdles: (1) heavy reliance on local context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Arihant Jain , Gundeep Arora , Anoop Saladi , Chaosheng Dong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for processing relational data in applications. However, GNNs suffer from the problem of oversmoothing, the property that the features of all nodes exponentially converge to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-22 Bastian Epping , Alexandre René , Moritz Helias , Michael T. Schaub

The crux of molecular property prediction is to generate meaningful representations of the molecules. One promising route is to exploit the molecular graph structure through Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). It is well known that both atoms and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-15 Hehuan Ma , Yatao Bian , Yu Rong , Wenbing Huang , Tingyang Xu , Weiyang Xie , Geyan Ye , Junzhou Huang