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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various graph mining tasks by aggregating information from neighborhoods for representation learning. The success relies on the homophily assumption that nearby nodes exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zhuonan Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Hongjia Xu , Ming Gu , Yilun Xu , Ao Li , Yuhong Li , Jingjun Gu , Jiajun Bu

We investigate graph neural networks on graphs with heterophily. Some existing methods amplify a node's neighborhood with multi-hop neighbors to include more nodes with homophily. However, it is a significant challenge to set personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xiang Li , Renyu Zhu , Yao Cheng , Caihua Shan , Siqiang Luo , Dongsheng Li , Weining Qian

Graph neural network, as a powerful graph representation technique based on deep learning, has shown superior performance and attracted considerable research interest. However, it has not been fully considered in graph neural network for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xiao Wang , Houye Ji , Chuan Shi , Bai Wang , Peng Cui , P. Yu , Yanfang Ye

Heterogeneous graphs with heterophily have emerged as a powerful abstraction for modeling complex real-world systems, where nodes of different types and labels interact in diverse and often non-homophilous ways. Despite recent advances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yihan Zhang , Ercan E. Kuruoglu

Graphs with heterophily, where adjacent nodes carry different labels, are prevalent in real-world applications, from social networks to molecular interactions. However, existing spectral Graph Neural Network (GNN) approaches tailored for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Md Sazzad Hossen , Avimanyu Sahoo

Many recent works have studied the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the context of graph homophily - a label-dependent measure of connectivity. Traditional GNNs generate node embeddings by aggregating information from a node's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Hesham Mostafa , Marcel Nassar , Somdeb Majumdar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are known to be vulnerable to oversmoothing due to their implicit homophily assumption. We mitigate this problem with a novel scheme that regulates the aggregation of messages, modulating the type and extent of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haishan Wang , Arno Solin , Vikas Garg

Graph Domain Adaptation (GDA) transfers knowledge from labeled source graphs to unlabeled target graphs, addressing the challenge of label scarcity. In this paper, we highlight the significance of graph homophily, a pivotal factor for graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ruiyi Fang , Bingheng Li , Jingyu Zhao , Ruizhi Pu , Qiuhao Zeng , Gezheng Xu , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang

Recent studies on Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) provide both empirical and theoretical evidence supporting their effectiveness in capturing structural patterns on both homophilic and certain heterophilic graphs. Notably, most real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haitao Mao , Zhikai Chen , Wei Jin , Haoyu Han , Yao Ma , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods have achieved impressive performance on node clustering task. However, they are designed on the homophilic assumption of graph and clustering on heterophilic graph is overlooked. Due to the lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become pivotal tools for a range of graph-based learning tasks. Notably, most current GNN architectures operate under the assumption of homophily, whether explicitly or implicitly. While this underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kun Wang , Guibin Zhang , Xinnan Zhang , Junfeng Fang , Xun Wu , Guohao Li , Shirui Pan , Wei Huang , Yuxuan Liang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) exhibit excellent performance when graphs have strong homophily property, i.e. connected nodes have the same labels. However, they perform poorly on heterophilic graphs. Several approaches address the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Vijay Lingam , Rahul Ragesh , Arun Iyer , Sundararajan Sellamanickam

We bridge two research directions on graph neural networks (GNNs), by formalizing the relation between heterophily of node labels (i.e., connected nodes tend to have dissimilar labels) and the robustness of GNNs to adversarial attacks. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jiong Zhu , Junchen Jin , Donald Loveland , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) exploit signals from node features and the input graph topology to improve node classification task performance. However, these models tend to perform poorly on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Vijay Lingam , Chanakya Ekbote , Manan Sharma , Rahul Ragesh , Arun Iyer , Sundararajan Sellamanickam

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) plays a vital role in various data mining applications such as e-commerce fraud prevention and malicious user detection. Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approach has demonstrated great effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Ni , Jindong Han , Nengjun Zhu , Hao Liu

We present two architectures for multi-task learning with neural sequence models. Our approach allows the relationships between different tasks to be learned dynamically, rather than using an ad-hoc pre-defined structure as in previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pengfei Liu , Jie Fu , Yue Dong , Xipeng Qiu , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Node classification is a classical graph machine learning task on which Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently achieved strong results. However, it is often believed that standard GNNs only work well for homophilous graphs, i.e., graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Oleg Platonov , Denis Kuznedelev , Michael Diskin , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Heterogeneous graphs (HGs) are common in real-world scenarios and often exhibit heterophily. However, most existing studies focus on either heterogeneity or heterophily in isolation, overlooking the prevalence of heterophilic HGs in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Qin Chen , Guojie Song

Spectral Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as node classification due to their ability to learn flexible filters. Typically, these filters are learned under the supervision of downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Kangkang Lu , Yanhua Yu , Zhiyong Huang , Tat-Seng Chua

The message-passing mechanism underlying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is not naturally suited for heterophilic datasets, where adjacent nodes often have different labels. Most solutions to this problem remain confined to the task of node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco , Francesco Caso , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri