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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a promising deep learning approach for circumventing many real-world problems on graph-structured data. However, these models usually have at least one of four fundamental limitations: over-smoothing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xun Liu , Alex Hay-Man Ng , Fangyuan Lei , Yikuan Zhang , Zhengmin Li

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently enabled a popular class of algorithms for collaborative filtering (CF). Nevertheless, the theoretical underpinnings of their empirical successes remain elusive. In this paper, we endeavor to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yifei Shen , Yongji Wu , Yao Zhang , Caihua Shan , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Dongsheng Li

A Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) stacks several layers and in each layer performs a PROPagation operation (PROP) and a TRANsformation operation (TRAN) for learning node representations over graph-structured data. Though powerful, GCNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Kuangqi Zhou , Yanfei Dong , Kaixin Wang , Wee Sun Lee , Bryan Hooi , Huan Xu , Jiashi Feng

Multi-label node classification is an important yet under-explored domain in graph mining as many real-world nodes belong to multiple categories rather than just a single one. Although a few efforts have been made by utilizing Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yuanchen Bei , Weizhi Chen , Hao Chen , Sheng Zhou , Carl Yang , Jiapei Fan , Longtao Huang , Jiajun Bu

Graph embedding is an important approach for graph analysis tasks such as node classification and link prediction. The goal of graph embedding is to find a low dimensional representation of graph nodes that preserves the graph information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Mahsa Ghorbani , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Hamid R. Rabiee

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in addressing node classification tasks. However, the effectiveness of traditional GNNs degrades on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Asela Hevapathige , Asiri Wijesinghe , Ahad N. Zehmakan

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) enable end-to-end learning on graph structured data. However, many works assume a given graph structure. When the input graph is noisy or unavailable, one approach is to construct or learn a latent graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Avishkar Saha , Oscar Mendez , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden

Graph heterophily poses a formidable challenge to the performance of Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs). The familiar low-pass filters like Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) face performance degradation, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kushal Bose , Swagatam Das

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been effective at tasks that have rich relational structure and can preserve global structure information of a dataset in graph embeddings. Recently, many researchers focused on examining whether GCNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Soyeon Caren Han , Zihan Yuan , Kunze Wang , Siqu Long , Josiah Poon

Graph Neural Network (GNN) is an emerging technique for graph-based learning tasks such as node classification. In this work, we reveal the vulnerability of GNN to the imbalance of node labels. Traditional solutions for imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Xiaohe Li , Lijie Wen , Yawen Deng , Fuli Feng , Xuming Hu , Lei Wang , Zide Fan

We study the task of node classification for graph neural networks (GNNs) and establish a connection between group fairness, as measured by statistical parity and equal opportunity, and local assortativity, i.e., the tendency of linked…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Donald Loveland , Jiong Zhu , Mark Heimann , Ben Fish , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have shown promising results in processing graph data by extracting structure-aware features. This gave rise to extensive work in geometric deep learning, focusing on designing network architectures that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yimeng Min , Frederik Wenkel , Guy Wolf

The task of multi-label image recognition is to predict a set of object labels that present in an image. As objects normally co-occur in an image, it is desirable to model the label dependencies to improve the recognition performance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Zhao-Min Chen , Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Yanwen Guo

Graph Neural Networks (graph NNs) are a promising deep learning approach for analyzing graph-structured data. However, it is known that they do not improve (or sometimes worsen) their predictive performance as we pile up many layers and add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be powerful in many graph-based applications. However, they fail to generalize well under heterophilic setups, where neighbor nodes have different labels. To address this challenge, we employ a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Taewook Ko , Chong-Kwon Kim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted much attention because of their excellent performance on tasks such as node classification. However, there is inadequate understanding on how and why GNNs work, especially for node representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Guoji Fu , Yifan Hou , Jian Zhang , Kaili Ma , Barakeel Fanseu Kamhoua , James Cheng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel in modeling relational data such as biological, social, and transportation networks, but the underpinnings of their success are not well understood. Traditional complexity measures from statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Cheng Shi , Liming Pan , Hong Hu , Ivan Dokmanić

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) -- which are effective in modeling graph structures -- have been increasingly popular in knowledge graph completion (KGC). GCN-based KGC models first use GCNs to generate expressive entity representations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Zhanqiu Zhang , Jie Wang , Jieping Ye , Feng Wu

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful deep learning approach for graph-structured data. Recently, GCNs and subsequent variants have shown superior performance in various application areas on real-world datasets. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ming Chen , Zhewei Wei , Zengfeng Huang , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li