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Over-squashing and over-smoothing are two critical issues, that limit the capabilities of graph neural networks (GNNs). While over-smoothing eliminates the differences between nodes making them indistinguishable, over-squashing refers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Cedric Sanders , Andreas Roth , Thomas Liebig

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be effective in processing and learning from graph-structured data. However, previous works mainly focused on understanding single graph inputs while many real-world applications require pair-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Junhyun Lee , Bumsoo Kim , Minji Jeon , Jaewoo Kang

Graph pooling methods have been widely used on downsampling graphs, achieving impressive results on multiple graph-level tasks like graph classification and graph generation. An important line called node dropping pooling aims at exploiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gaichao Li , Jinsong Chen , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown significant success for graph-based tasks. Motivated by the prevalence of large datasets in real-world applications, pooling layers are crucial components of GNNs. By reducing the size of input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Katharina Limbeck , Lydia Mezrag , Guy Wolf , Bastian Rieck

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated a significant success in various graph learning tasks, from graph classification to anomaly detection. There recently has emerged a number of approaches adopting a graph pooling operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuzhou Chen , Yulia R. Gel

Graph classification is an important problem with applications across many domains, like chemistry and bioinformatics, for which graph neural networks (GNNs) have been state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. GNNs are designed to learn node-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Lanning Wei , Huan Zhao , Quanming Yao , Zhiqiang He

Graph neural networks get significant attention for graph representation and classification in machine learning community. Attention mechanism applied on the neighborhood of a node improves the performance of graph neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Manasvi Aggarwal , M. Narasimha Murty

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has concentrated on improving convolutional layers, with little attention paid to developing graph pooling layers. Yet pooling layers can enable GNNs to reason over abstracted groups of nodes instead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Frederik Diehl

In this work, we focus on the efficiency and scalability of pairwise constraint-based active clustering, crucial for processing large-scale data in applications such as data mining, knowledge annotation, and AI model pre-training. Our goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wen-Bo Xie , Xun Fu , Bin Chen , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Deng , Tian Zou , Xin Wang , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastavad

In this work, we evaluate the use of superpixel pooling layers in deep network architectures for semantic segmentation. Superpixel pooling is a flexible and efficient replacement for other pooling strategies that incorporates spatial prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mathijs Schuurmans , Maxim Berman , Matthew B. Blaschko

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which generalize deep neural networks to graph-structured data, have drawn considerable attention and achieved state-of-the-art performance in numerous graph related tasks. However, existing GNN models mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zhen Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Martin Ester , Jianfeng Zhang , Chengwei Yao , Zhi Yu , Can Wang

Graph neural networks have attracted wide attentions to enable representation learning of graph data in recent works. In complement to graph convolution operators, graph pooling is crucial for extracting hierarchical representation of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Xing Gao , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong , Pascal Frossard

With the development of graph convolutional networks (GCN), deep learning methods have started to be used on graph data. In additional to convolutional layers, pooling layers are another important components of deep learning. However, no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Hongyang Gao , Yongjun Chen , Shuiwang Ji

While graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successful for node classification tasks and link prediction tasks in graph, learning graph-level representations still remains a challenge. For the graph-level representation, it is important to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Sangseon Lee , Dohoon Lee , Yinhua Piao , Sun Kim

Inspired by the conventional pooling layers in convolutional neural networks, many recent works in the field of graph machine learning have introduced pooling operators to reduce the size of graphs. The great variety in the literature stems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Daniele Grattarola , Daniele Zambon , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Cesare Alippi

We propose a novel approach to compute the MAXCUT in attributed graphs, i.e., graphs with features associated with nodes and edges. Our approach works well on any kind of graph topology and can find solutions that jointly optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Carlo Abate , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Architectures for sparse hierarchical representation learning have recently been proposed for graph-structured data, but so far assume the absence of edge features in the graph. We close this gap and propose a method to pool graphs with…

Current research on distributed multi-modal learning typically assumes that clients can access complete information across all modalities, which may not hold in practice. In this paper, we explore patchwork learning, in which the modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xingjian Hu , Zuoyu Yan , Jianhua Zhu , Liangcai Gao , Fei Wang , Tengfei Ma

Graph Machine Learning often involves the clustering of nodes based on similarity structure encoded in the graph's topology and the nodes' attributes. On homophilous graphs, the integration of pooling layers has been shown to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Amy Feng , Melanie Weber