Summary of Revisiting the Message Passing in Heterophilous Graph Neural Networks, by Zhuonan Zheng et al.
Revisiting the Message Passing in Heterophilous Graph Neural Networks
by Zhuonan Zheng, Yuanchen Bei, Sheng Zhou, Yao Ma, Ming Gu, HongJia XU, Chengyu Lai, Jiawei Chen, Jiajun Bu
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates the effectiveness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in graph mining tasks, particularly on heterophilous graphs where connected nodes exhibit contrasting behaviors. Despite the message-passing mechanism being unsuitable for these graphs, many existing GNNs consistently achieve success. To understand this phenomenon, the authors reformulate the message-passing mechanisms into a unified heterophilous message-passing (HTMP) mechanism and reveal that its success is attributed to implicitly enhancing the compatibility matrix among classes. The authors then introduce CMGNN, an approach that leverages and improves this matrix. Empirical analysis on 10 benchmark datasets and comparative evaluation against 13 baselines demonstrate the superior performance of HTMP and CMGNN. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how Graph Neural Networks work well even when connected nodes are different. It seems strange because these networks were designed for when nodes are similar, but they still do a good job. The authors figure out why this is happening and create a new way to make it better called CMGNN. They test their idea on lots of real-world data sets and show that it does better than other methods. |
