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Semi-supervised node classification in graphs is a fundamental problem in graph mining, and the recently proposed graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved unparalleled results on this task. Due to their massive success, GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Oleksandr Shchur , Maximilian Mumme , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Graph neural network (GNN) is a deep model for graph representation learning. One advantage of graph neural network is its ability to incorporate node features into the learning process. However, this prevents graph neural network from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Chi Thang Duong , Thanh Dat Hoang , Ha The Hien Dang , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Karl Aberer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in various graph-related problems such as node classification and graph classification, where superior performance is mainly established when natural node features are available. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Hejie Cui , Zijie Lu , Pan Li , Carl Yang

In recent years, spectral graph neural networks, characterized by polynomial filters, have garnered increasing attention and have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as node classification. These models typically assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kangkang Lu , Yanhua Yu , Hao Fei , Xuan Li , Zixuan Yang , Zirui Guo , Meiyu Liang , Mengran Yin , Tat-Seng Chua

Spectral Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in graph machine learning, with polynomial filters applied for graph convolutions, where all nodes share the identical filter weights to mine their local contexts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jingwei Guo , Kaizhu Huang , Xinping Yi , Rui Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning on graph-structured data, but often struggle to balance local and global information. While graph Transformers aim to address this by enabling long-range interactions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jeongwhan Choi , Seungjun Park , Sumin Park , Sung-Bae Cho , Noseong Park

Spectral graph neural networks learn graph filters, but their behavior with increasing depth and polynomial order is not well understood. We analyze these models in the graph Fourier domain, where each layer becomes an element-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Vahan A. Martirosyan , Daniele Malitesta , Hugues Talbot , Jhony H. Giraldo , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

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

Whilst spectral Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are theoretically well-founded in the spectral domain, their practical reliance on polynomial approximation implies a profound linkage to the spatial domain. As previous studies rarely examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jingwei Guo , Kaizhu Huang , Xinping Yi , Zixian Su , Rui Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs), as the de-facto model class for representation learning on graphs, are built upon the multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) architecture with additional message passing layers to allow features to flow across nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Jiahua Wang , Junchi Yan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to learn from graph-structured data. A paramount example of such data is the brain, which operates as a network, from the micro-scale of neurons, to the macro-scale of regions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Ahmed ElGazzar , Rajat Thomas , Guido van Wingen

Spectral graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been producing encouraging results in graph classification tasks. However, most spectral GCNNs utilize fixed graphs when aggregating node features, while omitting edge feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yang Yi , Xuequan Lu , Shang Gao , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Yuejie Zhang

Stability of graph neural networks (GNNs) characterizes how GNNs react to graph perturbations and provides guarantees for architecture performance in noisy scenarios. This paper develops a self-regularized graph neural network (SR-GNN)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi

Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are often criticized for their limited expressiveness, issues like over-smoothing and over-squashing, and challenges in capturing long-range dependencies. Conversely, Graph Transformers (GTs) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuankai Luo , Lei Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

In recent years, a plethora of spectral graph neural networks (GNN) methods have utilized polynomial basis with learnable coefficients to achieve top-tier performances on many node-level tasks. Although various kinds of polynomial bases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qian Tao , Zhen Wang , Wenyuan Yu , Yaliang Li , Zhewei Wei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often perform better for high-degree nodes than low-degree nodes on node classification tasks. This degree bias can reinforce social marginalization by, e.g., privileging celebrities and other high-degree actors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Arjun Subramonian , Jian Kang , Yizhou Sun

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received tremendous attention due to their power in learning effective representations for graphs. Most GNNs follow a message-passing scheme where the node representations are updated by aggregating and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Wei Jin , Xiaorui Liu , Yao Ma , Tyler Derr , Charu Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

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) achieve remarkable success in graph-based semi-supervised node classification, leveraging the information from neighboring nodes to improve the representation learning of target node. The success of GNNs at node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Bingbing Xu , Junjie Huang , Liang Hou , Huawei Shen , Jinhua Gao , Xueqi Cheng

It is well established that spectral graph neural networks (GNNs) can universally approximate node signals; however, their expressive power remains bounded by the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman test, which is mirrored in their lack of…

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