Summary of Sgformer: Single-layer Graph Transformers with Approximation-free Linear Complexity, by Qitian Wu et al.
SGFormer: Single-Layer Graph Transformers with Approximation-Free Linear Complexity
by Qitian Wu, Kai Yang, Hengrui Zhang, David Wipf, Junchi Yan
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 new approach to learning representations on large graphs by simplifying the architecture of transformers. The authors show that multi-layer attentions are not necessary for capturing all-pair interactions on graphs, and instead propose a single-layer global attention mechanism called SGFormer. This approach scales linearly with graph size and does not require any approximation. Experimental results demonstrate that SGFormer can successfully process large graphs like ogbn-papers100M, achieving orders-of-magnitude inference acceleration compared to peer transformers on medium-sized graphs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper simplifies the architecture of transformers for learning representations on large graphs. It shows that using many layers is not necessary and proposes a new approach called SGFormer. This new approach uses just one layer and can handle very large graphs quickly. The results show that SGFormer works well even with limited labeled data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Inference
