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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) exploit signals from node features and the input graph topology to improve node classification task performance. However, these models tend to perform poorly on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes have…

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Heterophily, or the tendency of connected nodes in networks to have different class labels or dissimilar features, has been identified as challenging for many Graph Neural Network (GNN) models. While the challenges of applying GNNs for node…

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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.…

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Heterogeneous graph pre-training (HGP) has demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains. However, the issue of heterophily in real-world heterogeneous graphs (HGs) has been largely overlooked. To bridge this research gap, we…

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Graph neural network, as a powerful graph representation technique based on deep learning, has shown superior performance and attracted considerable research interest. However, it has not been fully considered in graph neural network for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xiao Wang , Houye Ji , Chuan Shi , Bai Wang , Peng Cui , P. Yu , Yanfang Ye

Heterogeneous graphs (HGs) are common in real-world scenarios and often exhibit heterophily. However, most existing studies focus on either heterogeneity or heterophily in isolation, overlooking the prevalence of heterophilic HGs in…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) exhibit excellent performance when graphs have strong homophily property, i.e. connected nodes have the same labels. However, they perform poorly on heterophilic graphs. Several approaches address the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Vijay Lingam , Rahul Ragesh , Arun Iyer , Sundararajan Sellamanickam

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…

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Heterogeneous graph convolutional networks have gained great popularity in tackling various network analytical tasks on heterogeneous network data, ranging from link prediction to node classification. However, most existing works ignore the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Pengyang Yu , Chaofan Fu , Yanwei Yu , Chao Huang , Zhongying Zhao , Junyu Dong

Existing message passing neural networks for heterogeneous graphs rely on the concepts of meta-paths or meta-graphs due to the intrinsic nature of heterogeneous graphs. However, the meta-paths and meta-graphs need to be pre-configured…

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Node classification is a classical graph machine learning task on which Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently achieved strong results. However, it is often believed that standard GNNs only work well for homophilous graphs, i.e., graphs…

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Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has highlighted a relationship between high homophily (i.e., the tendency of nodes of the same class to connect) and strong predictive performance in node classification. However, recent work has found…

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Homophily, the tendency of similar nodes to connect, is a fundamental phenomenon in network science and a critical factor in the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs). While existing studies primarily explore homophily in homogeneous…

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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from normal patterns in structure or features. While recent GNN-based approaches have advanced this task, they struggle with two major challenges: 1) homophily disparity,…

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Large language models (LLMs) have presented significant opportunities to enhance various machine learning applications, including graph neural networks (GNNs). By leveraging the vast open-world knowledge within LLMs, we can more effectively…

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Graph neural networks have become the standard approach for dealing with learning problems on graphs. Among the different variants of graph neural networks, graph attention networks (GATs) have been applied with great success to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Michail Chatzianastasis , Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Real-world networks usually have a property of node heterophily, that is, the connected nodes usually have different features or different labels. This heterophily issue has been extensively studied in homogeneous graphs but remains…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ziyu Zheng , Yaming Yang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Weigang Lu

Homophily principle, i.e., nodes with the same labels are more likely to be connected, has been believed to be the main reason for the performance superiority of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over Neural Networks on node classification…

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