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The message passing framework is the foundation of the immense success enjoyed by graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. In spite of its elegance, there exist many problems it provably cannot solve over given input graphs. This has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Petar Veličković

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) learn the representation of graph-structured data based on graph original information, including node features and graph structures, and have shown astonishing improvement in node classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Xiao Liu , Lijun Zhang , Hui Guan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for data-driven learning on various graph domains. They are usually based on a message-passing mechanism and have gained increasing popularity for their intuitive formulation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Simone Brugiapaglia , Mirco Ravanelli

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a large class of relational models for graph processing. Recent theoretical studies on the expressive power of GNNs have focused on two issues. On the one hand, it has been proven that GNNs are as powerful…

Evaluations of large language models (LLMs) primarily emphasize convergent logical reasoning, where success is defined by producing a single correct proof. However, many real-world reasoning problems admit multiple valid derivations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yanrui Wu , Lingling Zhang , Xinyu Zhang , Jiayu Chang , Pengyu Li , Xu Jiang , Jingtao Hu , Jun Liu

It has been shown that a message passing neural networks (MPNNs), a popular family of neural networks for graph-structured data, are at most as expressive as the first-order Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) graph isomorphism test, which has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Markus Zopf

The most popular design paradigm for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is 1-hop message passing -- aggregating information from 1-hop neighbors repeatedly. However, the expressive power of 1-hop message passing is bounded by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Jiarui Feng , Yixin Chen , Fuhai Li , Anindya Sarkar , Muhan Zhang

We precisely characterize the expressivity of computable Recurrent Graph Neural Networks (recurrent GNNs). We prove that recurrent GNNs with finite-precision parameters, sum aggregation, and ReLU activation, can compute any graph algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eran Rosenbluth , Martin Grohe

Recently, the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test was used to measure the expressiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs), showing that the neighborhood aggregation GNNs were at most as powerful as 1-WL test in distinguishing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mingqi Yang , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

Graph learning tasks often hinge on identifying key substructure patterns -- such as triadic closures in social networks or benzene rings in molecular graphs -- that underpin downstream performance. However, most existing graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zehong Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Tianyi Ma , Nitesh V Chawla , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently become the standard approach for learning with graph-structured data. Prior work has shed light into their potential, but also their limitations. Unfortunately, it was shown that standard GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Gaspard Michel , Giannis Nikolentzos , Johannes Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We propose Scalable Message Passing Neural Networks (SMPNNs) and demonstrate that, by integrating standard convolutional message passing into a Pre-Layer Normalization Transformer-style block instead of attention, we can produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Artem Lukoianov , Anastasis Kratsios , Michael Bronstein , Xiaowen Dong

Robustness in complex systems is of significant engineering and economic importance. However, conventional attack-based a posteriori robustness assessments incur prohibitive computational overhead. Recently, deep learning methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chengyu Tian , Wenbin Pei

Semantic communication is envisioned as a promising technique to break through the Shannon limit. However, the existing semantic communication frameworks do not involve inference and error correction, which limits the achievable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Fuhui Zhou , Yihao Li , Xinyuan Zhang , Qihui Wu , Xianfu Lei , Rose Qingyang Hu

In this paper we cast neural networks defined on graphs as message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) in order to study the distinguishing power of different classes of such models. We are interested in whether certain architectures are able…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Floris Geerts , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are key tools for graph representation learning, demonstrating strong results across diverse prediction tasks. In this paper, we present Convexified Message-Passing Graph Neural Networks (CGNNs), a novel and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saar Cohen , Noa Agmon , Uri Shaham

Characterizing the separation power of graph neural networks (GNNs) provides an understanding of their limitations for graph learning tasks. Results regarding separation power are, however, usually geared at specific GNN architectures, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Floris Geerts , Juan L. Reutter

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have emerged as the most popular framework of graph neural networks (GNNs) in recent years. However, their expressive power is limited by the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-WL) test. Some works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiarui Feng , Lecheng Kong , Hao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Fuhai Li , Muhan Zhang , Yixin Chen

Recently, subgraph GNNs have emerged as an important direction for developing expressive graph neural networks (GNNs). While numerous architectures have been proposed, so far there is still a limited understanding of how various design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Bohang Zhang , Guhao Feng , Yiheng Du , Di He , Liwei Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prominent approach to machine learning with graphs and have been increasingly applied in a multitude of domains. Nevertheless, since most existing GNN models are based on flat message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhiqiang Zhong , Cheng-Te Li , Jun Pang