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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prominent approach for learning from graph-structured data. However, their effectiveness can be significantly compromised when the graph structure is suboptimal. To address this issue, Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shen Han , Zhiyao Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Zhezheng Hao , Sheng Zhou , Gang Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can Wang

While heterophily has been widely studied in node-level tasks, its impact on graph-level tasks remains unclear. We present the first analysis of heterophily in graph-level learning, combining theoretical insights with empirical validation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinhan Hou , Yilun Zheng , Xichun Zhang , Sitao Luan , Jing Tang

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

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) enables privacy-preserving, distributed training of graph neural networks without sharing raw data. Among its approaches, subgraph-FL has become the dominant paradigm, with most work focused on improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhengyu Wu , Boyang Pang , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Daohan Su , Bowen Fan , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm based on graph neural networks, enabling secure and collaborative modeling of local graph data among clients. However, label noise can degrade the global model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 De Li , Haodong Qian , Qiyu Li , Zhou Tan , Zemin Gan , Jinyan Wang , Xianxian Li

Inferring the graph structure from observed data is a key task in graph machine learning to capture the intrinsic relationship between data entities. While significant advancements have been made in learning the structure of homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Keyue Jiang , Bohan Tang , Xiaowen Dong , Laura Toni

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) is tasked with training machine learning models, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), for multiple clients, each with its own graph data. Existing methods usually assume that each client has both node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Xingbo Fu , Song Wang , Yushun Dong , Binchi Zhang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Recent years have witnessed fast developments of graph neural networks (GNNs) that have benefited myriad graph analytic tasks and applications. Most GNNs rely on the homophily assumption that nodes belonging to the same class are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xin Zheng , Yi Wang , Yixin Liu , Ming Li , Miao Zhang , Di Jin , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Node classification in graphs aims to predict the categories of unlabeled nodes by utilizing a small set of labeled nodes. However, weighted graphs often contain noisy edges and anomalous edge weights, which can distort fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Tingting Wang , Jiaxin Su , Haobing Liu , Ruobing Jiang

The quality of graph-structured data is fundamental to the success of modern graph analysis techniques such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, real-world graph data is often suboptimal, suffering from issues such as noise and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shen Han , Zhiyao Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Canghong Jin , Hai Lin , Da Zhong Li , Bingde Hu , Can Wang

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has demonstrated the advantage of training a global Graph Neural Network (GNN) model across distributed clients using their local graph data. Unlike Euclidean data (\eg, images), graph data is composed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xianjun Gao , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Shilong Wang , Liusheng Huang

This work presents a novel approach to tabular data prediction leveraging graph structure learning and graph neural networks. Despite the prevalence of tabular data in real-world applications, traditional deep learning methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jay Chiehen Liao , Cheng-Te Li

To improve the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Graph Structure Learning (GSL) has been extensively applied to reconstruct or refine original graph structures, effectively addressing issues like heterophily, over-squashing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yilun Zheng , Zhuofan Zhang , Ziming Wang , Xiang Li , Sitao Luan , Xiaojiang Peng , Lihui Chen

Temporal Graph Learning, which aims to model the time-evolving nature of graphs, has gained increasing attention and achieved remarkable performance recently. However, in reality, graph structures are often incomplete and noisy, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Haozhen Zhang , Xueting Han , Xi Xiao , Jing Bai

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are predominantly tailored for graphs displaying homophily, where similar nodes connect, but often fail on heterophilic graphs. The strategy of adopting distinct approaches to learn from homophilic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Han Lei , Jiaxing Xu , Xia Dong , Yiping Ke

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

Graphs serve as generic tools to encode the underlying relational structure of data. Often this graph is not given, and so the task of inferring it from nodal observations becomes important. Traditional approaches formulate a convex inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Max Wasserman , Gonzalo Mateos

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are well-suited for learning on homophilous graphs, i.e., graphs in which edges tend to connect nodes of the same type. Yet, achievement of consistent GNN performance on heterophilous graphs remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Andrea Cavallo , Claas Grohnfeldt , Michele Russo , Giulio Lovisotto , Luca Vassio

Traditional Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) struggles to capture complex structural properties well. This limitation stems from two main factors: (1) the inadequacy of conventional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in representing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Asiri Wijesinghe , Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

To improve the robustness of graph neural networks (GNN), graph structure learning (GSL) has attracted great interest due to the pervasiveness of noise in graph data. Many approaches have been proposed for GSL to jointly learn a clean graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shaogao Lv , Gang Wen , Shiyu Liu , Linsen Wei , Ming Li