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Interpreting graph neural networks (GNNs) is difficult because message passing mixes signals and internal channels rarely align with human concepts. We study superposition, the sharing of directions by multiple features, directly in the…

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Geometric Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers have become state-of-the-art for learning from 3D protein structures. However, their reliance on message passing prevents them from capturing the hierarchical interactions that govern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chang Liu , Vivian Li , Linus Leong , Vladimir Radenkovic , Pietro Liò , Chaitanya K. Joshi

Subgraph GNNs enhance message-passing GNNs expressivity by representing graphs as sets of subgraphs, demonstrating impressive performance across various tasks. However, their scalability is hindered by the need to process large numbers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Guy Bar-Shalom , Yam Eitan , Fabrizio Frasca , Haggai Maron

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) face fundamental limitations in expressivity and capturing structural heterogeneity. Standard message-passing architectures are constrained by the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) test, unable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Asela Hevapathige , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Asiri Wijesinghe , Saman Halgamuge

Designing expressive Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a central topic in learning graph-structured data. While numerous approaches have been proposed to improve GNNs in terms of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test, generally there is still a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Bohang Zhang , Shengjie Luo , Liwei Wang , Di He

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network (HGNN) has been successfully employed in various tasks, but we cannot accurately know the importance of different design dimensions of HGNNs due to diverse architectures and applied scenarios. Besides, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Tianyu Zhao , Cheng Yang , Yibo Li , Quan Gan , Zhenyi Wang , Fengqi Liang , Huan Zhao , Yingxia Shao , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi

Modern sociology has profoundly uncovered many convincing social criteria for behavioural analysis. Unfortunately, many of them are too subjective to be measured and presented in online social networks. On the other hand, data mining…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Xiangguo Sun , Hong Cheng , Bo Liu , Jia Li , Hongyang Chen , Guandong Xu , Hongzhi Yin

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

The topological (or graph) structures of real-world networks are known to be predictive of multiple dynamic properties of the networks. Conventionally, a graph structure is represented using an adjacency matrix or a set of hand-crafted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Cheng Li , Xiaoxiao Guo , Qiaozhu Mei

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

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

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Subgraph GNNs have emerged as promising architectures that overcome the expressiveness limitations of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by processing bags of subgraphs. Despite their compelling empirical performance, these methods are afflicted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Joshua Southern , Yam Eitan , Guy Bar-Shalom , Michael Bronstein , Haggai Maron , Fabrizio Frasca

Over the last decade, random hyperbolic graphs have proved successful in providing geometric explanations for many key properties of real-world networks, including strong clustering, high navigability, and heterogeneous degree…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-01 Béatrice Désy , Patrick Desrosiers , Antoine Allard

Graph mining has become crucial in fields such as social science, finance, and cybersecurity. Many large-scale real-world networks exhibit both heterogeneity, where multiple node and edge types exist in the graph, and heterophily, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junhong Lin , Xiaojie Guo , Shuaicheng Zhang , Yada Zhu , Julian Shun

Hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful modeling framework to represent systems with multiway interactions, that is systems where interactions may involve an arbitrary number of agents. Here we explore the properties of real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Timothy LaRock , Renaud Lambiotte

Through detailed analysis of scores of publicly available data sets corresponding to a wide range of large-scale networks, from communication and road networks to various forms of social networks, we explore a little-studied geometric…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-02 W. Sean Kennedy , Onuttom Narayan , Iraj Saniee

While message passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular architectures for learning with graphs, recent works have revealed important shortcomings in their expressive power. In response, several higher-order GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Derek Lim , Stefanie Jegelka

Real-world complex systems are often better modeled as hypergraphs, where edges represent group interactions involving multiple entities. Understanding and quantifying homophily (similarity-driven association) in such networks is essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gaurav Kumar , Akrati Saxena , Chandrakala Meena

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have attracted increasing research interest in recent three years. Most existing HGNNs fall into two classes. One class is meta-path-based HGNNs which either require domain knowledge to handcraft…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Nan Wu , Chaofan Wang