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Despite the wide application of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), one major limitation is that it does not benefit from the increasing depth and suffers from the oversmoothing problem. In this work, we first characterize this phenomenon…

Graph-based semi-supervised learning (GSSL) has long been a hot research topic. Traditional methods are generally shallow learners, based on the cluster assumption. Recently, graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have become the predominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zheng Wang , Hongming Ding , Li Pan , Jianhua Li , Zhiguo Gong , Philip S. Yu

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are powerful models for node representation learning tasks. However, the node representation in existing GCN models is usually generated by performing recursive neighborhood aggregation across multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hao Chen , Zengde Deng , Yue Xu , Zhoujun Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results for semi-supervised learning tasks on graphs such as node classification. Despite the great success of GNNs, many real-world graphs are often sparsely and noisily labeled, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Enyan Dai , Charu Aggarwal , Suhang Wang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been successfully applied to analyze non-grid data, where the classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) cannot be directly used. One similarity shared by GCNs and CNNs is the requirement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Qikui Zhu , Bo Du , Pingkun Yan

Link prediction in structured-data is an important problem for many applications, especially for recommendation systems. Existing methods focus on how to learn the node representation based on graph-based structure. High-dimensional sparse…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yifei Zhao , Mingdong Ou , Rongzhi Zhang , Meng Li

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) have shown remarkable capabilities in learning from graph-structured data with various applications such as social analysis and bioinformatics. However, the presence of label noise in real scenarios poses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Ju , Wei Zhang , Siyu Yi , Zhengyang Mao , Yifan Wang , Jingyang Yuan , Zhiping Xiao , Ziyue Qiao , Ming Zhang

In recent years, using a self-supervised learning framework to learn the general characteristics of graphs has been considered a promising paradigm for graph representation learning. The core of self-supervised learning strategies for graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Jiawei Zhu , Mei Hong , Ronghua Du , Haifeng Li

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has shown remarkable potential of exploring graph representation. However, the GCN aggregating mechanism fails to generalize to networks with heterophily where most nodes have neighbors from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Dongxiao He , Chundong Liang , Huixin Liu , Mingxiang Wen , Pengfei Jiao , Zhiyong Feng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are prominent in handling sparse and unstructured data efficiently and effectively. Specifically, GNNs were shown to be highly effective for node classification tasks, where labelled information is available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

We present our ongoing work on understanding the limitations of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) as well as our work on generalizations of graph convolutions for representing more complex node attribute dependencies. Based on an analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Mathias Niepert , Alberto Garcia-Duran

In the semi-supervised learning field, Graph Convolution Network (GCN), as a variant model of GNN, has achieved promising results for non-Euclidean data by introducing convolution into GNN. However, GCN and its variant models fail to safely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhi Yang , Yadong Yan , Haitao Gan , Jing Zhao , Zhiwei Ye

Homophily principle, \ie{} nodes with the same labels or similar attributes are more likely to be connected, has been commonly believed to be the main reason for the superiority of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over traditional Neural…

Jumping connections enable Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to overcome over-smoothing, while graph sparsification reduces computational demands by selecting a sub-matrix of the graph adjacency matrix during neighborhood aggregation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiawei Sun , Hongkang Li , Meng Wang

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

A common observation in the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) literature is that stacking GCN layers may or may not result in better performance on tasks like node classification and edge prediction. We have found empirically that a graph's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shalima Binta Manir , Tim Oates

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular class of machine learning models whose major advantage is their ability to incorporate a sparse and discrete dependency structure between data points. Unfortunately, GNNs can only be used when such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Luca Franceschi , Mathias Niepert , Massimiliano Pontil , Xiao He

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) is a pioneering model for graph-based semi-supervised learning. However, GCN does not perform well on sparsely-labeled graphs. Its two-layer version cannot effectively propagate the label information to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wei Ye , Zexi Huang , Yunqi Hong , Ambuj Singh

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely employed for semi-supervised node classification tasks on graphs. However, the performance of GNNs is significantly affected by label noise, that is, a small amount of incorrectly labeled nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Rui Zhao , Bin Shi , Zhiming Liang , Jianfei Ruan , Bo Dong , Lu Lin