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The expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) is reasonably well understood, primarily through combinatorial techniques from graph isomorphism testing. However, MPNNs' generalization abilities -- making meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Antonis Vasileiou , Ben Finkelshtein , Floris Geerts , Ron Levie , Christopher Morris

A hallmark of graph neural networks is their ability to distinguish the isomorphism class of their inputs. This study derives hardness results for the classification variant of graph isomorphism in the message-passing model (MPNN). MPNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Andreas Loukas

We study the generalization capabilities of Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs), a prevalent class of Graph Neural Networks (GNN). We derive generalization bounds specifically for MPNNs with normalized sum aggregation and mean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Sohir Maskey , Gitta Kutyniok , Ron Levie

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

The expressivity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is dependent on the aggregation functions they employ. Theoretical works have pointed towards Sum aggregation GNNs subsuming every other GNNs, while certain practical works have observed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Eran Rosenbluth , Jan Toenshoff , Martin Grohe

Message passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are known to be limited in expressive power by the 1-WL color-refinement test for graph isomorphism. Other more expressive models either are computationally expensive or need preprocessing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Mohammed Haroon Dupty , Yanfei Dong , Wee Sun Lee

Message passing neural networks (MPNN) have seen a steep rise in popularity since their introduction as generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and are now considered state-of-the-art tools for solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sohir Maskey , Ron Levie , Yunseok Lee , Gitta Kutyniok

One main challenge in imbalanced graph classification is to learn expressive representations of the graphs in under-represented (minority) classes. Existing generic imbalanced learning methods, such as oversampling and imbalanced learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Rongrong Ma , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

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) have become the standard approach for learning and reasoning over relational data, leveraging the message-passing mechanism that iteratively propagates node embeddings through graph structures. While GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Wei Wang , Jiahao Zhang

We investigate the power of message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) in their capacity to transform the numerical features stored in the nodes of their input graphs. Our focus is on global expressive power, uniformly over all input graphs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Floris Geerts , Jasper Steegmans , Jan Van den Bussche

Generalization and approximation capabilities of message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) are often studied by defining a compact metric on a space of input graphs under which MPNNs are H\"older continuous. Such analyses are of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ofek Amran , Tom Gilat , Ron Levie

Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) are a powerful framework for learning representations of graph-structured domains. However, weights in MPNNs act on features only, limiting their ability to capture structural patterns. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Florian Seiffarth

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPGNNs) dominate modern graph learning. Typical efforts enhance MPGNN's expressive power by enriching the adjacency-based aggregation. In contrast, we introduce an efficient aggregation over walk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Marek Černý

Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been successfully applied to representation learning on graphs in a variety of real-world applications. However, two fundamental weaknesses of MPNNs' aggregators limit their ability to represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Hongbin Pei , Bingzhe Wei , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Yu Lei , Bo Yang

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success, their design largely relies on empirical intuition rather than theoretical understanding. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of GNN behavior through three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qin Jiang , Chengjia Wang , Michael Lones , Wei Pang

Numerous recent works have analyzed the expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs), primarily utilizing combinatorial techniques such as the $1$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman test ($1$-WL) for the graph isomorphism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jan Böker , Ron Levie , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar , Christopher Morris

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an effective framework for representation learning of graphs. GNNs follow a neighborhood aggregation scheme, where the representation vector of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Keyulu Xu , Weihua Hu , Jure Leskovec , Stefanie Jegelka

Representational limits of message-passing graph neural networks (MP-GNNs), e.g., in terms of the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) test for isomorphism, are well understood. Augmenting these graph models with topological features via persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Johanna Immonen , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

From the perspective of expressive power, this work compares multi-layer Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with a simplified alternative that we call Graph-Augmented Multi-Layer Perceptrons (GA-MLPs), which first augments node features with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Lei Chen , Zhengdao Chen , Joan Bruna
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