Summary of Boosting Graph Pooling with Persistent Homology, by Chaolong Ying et al.
Boosting Graph Pooling with Persistent Homology
by Chaolong Ying, Xinjian Zhao, Tianshu Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to integrating persistent homology (PH) into graph neural networks (GNNs) for improved expressive power. By incorporating PH features into pooling layers, the authors demonstrate that this integration can lead to substantial performance gains across multiple datasets. The mechanism relies on aligning PH filtration operations with graph pooling, allowing message passing in coarsened graphs to act along persistent topological structures. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper explores a new way to combine two techniques – persistent homology and graph neural networks – to make GNNs more powerful. By using PH to help with the way GNNs pool information, the authors show that their approach can work well on many different datasets. |
