大多数图形神经网络（GNNS）使用传递范例的消息，其中节点特征在输入图上传播。最近的作品指出，从远处节点流动的信息失真，作为限制依赖于长途交互的任务的消息的效率。这种现象称为“过度挤压”，已经启动到图形瓶颈，其中$ k $ -hop邻居的数量以$ k $迅速增长。我们在GNNS中提供了精确描述了GNNS中的过度挤压现象，并分析了它如何从图中的瓶颈引发。为此目的，我们介绍了一种新的基于边缘的组合曲率，并证明了负曲面负责过度挤压问题。我们还提出并通过实验测试了一种基于曲率的曲线图重新挖掘方法，以减轻过度挤压。

信息过度时是网络上远处节点之间效率低下的信息传播的现象。这是一个重要的问题，已知会显着影响图形神经网络（GNN）的训练，因为节点的接受场呈指数增长。为了减轻此问题，通常将称为重新布线的预处理程序应用于输入网络。在本文中，我们研究了经典曲率几何概念的离散类似物的使用来对网络上的信息流进行建模并重新织线。我们表明，这些经典概念在各种现实世界网络数据集上实现了GNN培训准确性的最新性能。此外，与当前的最新概念相比，这些经典概念在计算运行时表现出明显的优势。

图形神经网络（GNN）已被证明可以实现竞争结果，以解决与图形相关的任务，例如节点和图形分类，链接预测和节点以及各种域中的图形群集。大多数GNN使用消息传递框架，因此称为MPNN。尽管有很有希望的结果，但据报道，MPNN会遭受过度平滑，过度阵型和不足的影响。文献中已经提出了图形重新布线和图形池作为解决这些局限性的解决方案。但是，大多数最先进的图形重新布线方法无法保留该图的全局拓扑，因此没有可区分（电感），并且需要调整超参数。在本文中，我们提出了Diffwire，这是一个在MPNN中进行图形重新布线的新型框架，它通过利用LOV \'ASZ绑定来原理，完全可区分且无参数。我们的方法通过提出两个新的，mpnns中的新的互补层来提供统一的图形重新布线：首先，ctlayer，一个学习通勤时间并将其用作边缘重新加权的相关函数；其次，Gaplayer是优化光谱差距的图层，具体取决于网络的性质和手头的任务。我们从经验上验证了我们提出的方法的价值，并使用基准数据集分别验证了这些层的每个层以进行图形分类。 Diffwire将通勤时间的可学习性汇集到相关的曲率定义，为发展更具表现力的MPNN的发展打开了大门。

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied in many applications in computer sciences. Despite the success of deep learning architectures in other domains, deep GNNs still underperform their shallow counterparts. There are many open questions about deep GNNs, but over-smoothing and over-squashing are perhaps the most intriguing issues. When stacking multiple graph convolutional layers, the over-smoothing and over-squashing problems arise and have been defined as the inability of GNNs to learn deep representations and propagate information from distant nodes, respectively. Even though the widespread definitions of both problems are similar, these phenomena have been studied independently. This work strives to understand the underlying relationship between over-smoothing and over-squashing from a topological perspective. We show that both problems are intrinsically related to the spectral gap of the Laplacian of the graph. Therefore, there is a trade-off between these two problems, i.e., we cannot simultaneously alleviate both over-smoothing and over-squashing. We also propose a Stochastic Jost and Liu curvature Rewiring (SJLR) algorithm based on a bound of the Ollivier's Ricci curvature. SJLR is less expensive than previous curvature-based rewiring methods while retaining fundamental properties. Finally, we perform a thorough comparison of SJLR with previous techniques to alleviate over-smoothing or over-squashing, seeking to gain a better understanding of both problems.

Most graph neural network models rely on a particular message passing paradigm, where the idea is to iteratively propagate node representations of a graph to each node in the direct neighborhood. While very prominent, this paradigm leads to information propagation bottlenecks, as information is repeatedly compressed at intermediary node representations, which causes loss of information, making it practically impossible to gather meaningful signals from distant nodes. To address this issue, we propose shortest path message passing neural networks, where the node representations of a graph are propagated to each node in the shortest path neighborhoods. In this setting, nodes can directly communicate between each other even if they are not neighbors, breaking the information bottleneck and hence leading to more adequately learned representations. Theoretically, our framework generalizes message passing neural networks, resulting in provably more expressive models, and we show that some recent state-of-the-art models are special instances of this framework. Empirically, we verify the capacity of a basic model of this framework on dedicated synthetic experiments, and on real-world graph classification and regression benchmarks, and obtain state-of-the-art results.

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) had been demonstrated to be inherently susceptible to the problems of over-smoothing and over-squashing. These issues prohibit the ability of GNNs to model complex graph interactions by limiting their effectiveness at taking into account distant information. Our study reveals the key connection between the local graph geometry and the occurrence of both of these issues, thereby providing a unified framework for studying them at a local scale using the Ollivier's Ricci curvature. Based on our theory, a number of principled methods are proposed to alleviate the over-smoothing and over-squashing issues.

最小化能量的动力系统在几何和物理学中无处不在。我们为GNN提出了一个梯度流框架，其中方程遵循可学习能量的最陡峭下降的方向。这种方法允许从多粒子的角度来解释GNN的演变，以通过对称“通道混合”矩阵的正和负特征值在特征空间中学习吸引力和排斥力。我们对溶液进行光谱分析，并得出结论，梯度流量图卷积模型可以诱导以图高频为主导的动力学，这对于异性数据集是理想的。我们还描述了对常见GNN体系结构的结构约束，从而将其解释为梯度流。我们进行了彻底的消融研究，以证实我们的理论分析，并在现实世界同质和异性数据集上显示了简单和轻量级模型的竞争性能。

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Hyperbolic space is emerging as a promising learning space for representation learning, owning to its exponential growth volume. Compared with the flat Euclidean space, the curved hyperbolic space is far more ambient and embeddable, particularly for datasets with implicit tree-like architectures, such as hierarchies and power-law distributions. On the other hand, the structure of a real-world network is usually intricate, with some regions being tree-like, some being flat, and others being circular. Directly embedding heterogeneous structural networks into a homogeneous embedding space unavoidably brings inductive biases and distortions. Inspiringly, the discrete curvature can well describe the local structure of a node and its surroundings, which motivates us to investigate the information conveyed by the network topology explicitly in improving geometric learning. To this end, we explore the properties of the local discrete curvature of graph topology and the continuous global curvature of embedding space. Besides, a Hyperbolic Curvature-aware Graph Neural Network, HCGNN, is further proposed. In particular, HCGNN utilizes the discrete curvature to lead message passing of the surroundings and adaptively adjust the continuous curvature simultaneously. Extensive experiments on node classification and link prediction tasks show that the proposed method outperforms various competitive models by a large margin in both high and low hyperbolic graph data. Case studies further illustrate the efficacy of discrete curvature in finding local clusters and alleviating the distortion caused by hyperbolic geometry.

通过递归将整个社区的节点特征汇总，空间图卷积运算符已被宣布为图形神经网络（GNNS）成功的关键。然而，尽管GNN方法跨任务和应用程序进行了繁殖，但此聚合操作对其性能的影响尚未得到广泛的分析。实际上，尽管努力主要集中于优化神经网络的体系结构，但更少的工作试图表征（a）不同类别的空间卷积操作员，（b）特定类别的选择如何与数据的属性相关，以及（c）它对嵌入空间的几何形状的影响。在本文中，我们建议通过将现有操作员分为两个主要类（对称性与行规范的空间卷积）来回答所有三个问题，并展示它们如何转化为数据性质的不同隐性偏见。最后，我们表明，这种聚合操作员实际上是可调的，并且明确的制度在其中某些操作员（因此，嵌入几何形状）的某些选择可能更合适。

近年来，基于Weisfeiler-Leman算法的算法和神经架构，是一个众所周知的Graph同构问题的启发式问题，它成为具有图形和关系数据的机器学习的强大工具。在这里，我们全面概述了机器学习设置中的算法的使用，专注于监督的制度。我们讨论了理论背景，展示了如何将其用于监督的图形和节点表示学习，讨论最近的扩展，并概述算法的连接（置换 - ）方面的神经结构。此外，我们概述了当前的应用和未来方向，以刺激进一步的研究。

Deploying graph neural networks (GNNs) on whole-graph classification or regression tasks is known to be challenging: it often requires computing node features that are mindful of both local interactions in their neighbourhood and the global context of the graph structure. GNN architectures that navigate this space need to avoid pathological behaviours, such as bottlenecks and oversquashing, while ideally having linear time and space complexity requirements. In this work, we propose an elegant approach based on propagating information over expander graphs. We leverage an efficient method for constructing expander graphs of a given size, and use this insight to propose the EGP model. We show that EGP is able to address all of the above concerns, while requiring minimal effort to set up, and provide evidence of its empirical utility on relevant graph classification datasets and baselines in the Open Graph Benchmark. Importantly, using expander graphs as a template for message passing necessarily gives rise to negative curvature. While this appears to be counterintuitive in light of recent related work on oversquashing, we theoretically demonstrate that negatively curved edges are likely to be required to obtain scalable message passing without bottlenecks. To the best of our knowledge, this is a previously unstudied result in the context of graph representation learning, and we believe our analysis paves the way to a novel class of scalable methods to counter oversquashing in GNNs.

图表神经网络（GNNS）在各种机器学习任务中获得了表示学习的提高。然而，应用邻域聚合的大多数现有GNN通常在图中的图表上执行不良，其中相邻的节点属于不同的类。在本文中，我们示出了在典型的异界图中，边缘可以被引导，以及是否像是处理边缘，也可以使它们过度地影响到GNN模型的性能。此外，由于异常的限制，节点对来自本地邻域之外的类似节点的消息非常有益。这些激励我们开发一个自适应地学习图表的方向性的模型，并利用潜在的长距离相关性节点之间。我们首先将图拉普拉斯概括为基于所提出的特征感知PageRank算法向数字化，该算法同时考虑节点之间的图形方向性和长距离特征相似性。然后，Digraph Laplacian定义了一个图形传播矩阵，导致一个名为{\ em diglaciangcn}的模型。基于此，我们进一步利用节点之间的通勤时间测量的节点接近度，以便在拓扑级别上保留节点的远距离相关性。具有不同级别的10个数据集的广泛实验，同意级别展示了我们在节点分类任务任务中对现有解决方案的有效性。

A central challenge of building more powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is the oversmoothing phenomenon, where increasing the network depth leads to homogeneous node representations and thus worse classification performance. While previous works have only demonstrated that oversmoothing is inevitable when the number of graph convolutions tends to infinity, in this paper, we precisely characterize the mechanism behind the phenomenon via a non-asymptotic analysis. Specifically, we distinguish between two different effects when applying graph convolutions -- an undesirable mixing effect that homogenizes node representations in different classes, and a desirable denoising effect that homogenizes node representations in the same class. By quantifying these two effects on random graphs sampled from the Contextual Stochastic Block Model (CSBM), we show that oversmoothing happens once the mixing effect starts to dominate the denoising effect, and the number of layers required for this transition is $O(\log N/\log (\log N))$ for sufficiently dense graphs with $N$ nodes. We also extend our analysis to study the effects of Personalized PageRank (PPR) on oversmoothing. Our results suggest that while PPR mitigates oversmoothing at deeper layers, PPR-based architectures still achieve their best performance at a shallow depth and are outperformed by the graph convolution approach on certain graphs. Finally, we support our theoretical results with numerical experiments, which further suggest that the oversmoothing phenomenon observed in practice may be exacerbated by the difficulty of optimizing deep GNN models.

图形神经网络（GNNS）依赖于图形结构来定义聚合策略，其中每个节点通过与邻居的信息组合来更新其表示。已知GNN的限制是，随着层数的增加，信息被平滑，压扁并且节点嵌入式变得无法区分，对性能产生负面影响。因此，实用的GNN模型雇用了几层，只能在每个节点周围的有限邻域利用图形结构。不可避免地，实际的GNN不会根据图的全局结构捕获信息。虽然有几种研究GNNS的局限性和表达性，但是关于图形结构数据的实际应用的问题需要全局结构知识，仍然没有答案。在这项工作中，我们通过向几个GNN模型提供全球信息并观察其对下游性能的影响来认证解决这个问题。我们的研究结果表明，全球信息实际上可以为共同的图形相关任务提供显着的好处。我们进一步确定了一项新的正规化策略，导致所有考虑的任务的平均准确性提高超过5％。

我们提出了一个新的图形神经网络，我们称为AgentNet，该网络专为图形级任务而设计。 AgentNet的灵感来自子宫性算法，具有独立于图形大小的计算复杂性。代理Net的体系结构从根本上与已知图神经网络的体系结构不同。在AgentNet中，一些受过训练的\ textit {神经代理}智能地行走图，然后共同决定输出。我们提供了对AgentNet的广泛理论分析：我们表明，代理可以学会系统地探索其邻居，并且AgentNet可以区分某些甚至3-WL无法区分的结构。此外，AgentNet能够将任何两个图形分开，这些图在子图方面完全不同。我们通过在难以辨认的图和现实图形分类任务上进行合成实验来确认这些理论结果。在这两种情况下，我们不仅与标准GNN相比，而且与计算更昂贵的GNN扩展相比。

正如最近的作品中观察到的那样，通信图神经网络（GNN）中信号传播的质量强烈影响其表现力。特别是，对于依靠远程相互作用的预测任务，节点特征的递归聚合可能导致不希望的现象称为“过句”。我们提出了一个基于信息收缩的分析过度句子的框架。我们的分析以可靠计算的模型为指导，该模型由于冯·诺伊曼（Von Neumann），该模型在嘈杂的计算图中提供了新的洞察力作为信号淬灭的新见解。在此基础上，我们提出了一个旨在减轻过度量化的算法的图形。我们的算法采用了由扩展器图构造动机的随机局部边缘翻转原始的。我们将算法的光谱膨胀特性与现有基于曲率的非本地重新布线策略的光谱膨胀属性进行了比较。合成实验表明，尽管我们的算法通常具有较慢的膨胀速率，但总体计算更便宜，可以准确地保留节点度，并且永远不会断开图表的连接。

Deep learning has revolutionized many machine learning tasks in recent years, ranging from image classification and video processing to speech recognition and natural language understanding. The data in these tasks are typically represented in the Euclidean space. However, there is an increasing number of applications where data are generated from non-Euclidean domains and are represented as graphs with complex relationships and interdependency between objects. The complexity of graph data has imposed significant challenges on existing machine learning algorithms. Recently, many studies on extending deep learning approaches for graph data have emerged. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of graph neural networks (GNNs) in data mining and machine learning fields. We propose a new taxonomy to divide the state-of-the-art graph neural networks into four categories, namely recurrent graph neural networks, convolutional graph neural networks, graph autoencoders, and spatial-temporal graph neural networks. We further discuss the applications of graph neural networks across various domains and summarize the open source codes, benchmark data sets, and model evaluation of graph neural networks. Finally, we propose potential research directions in this rapidly growing field.

Graph classification is an important area in both modern research and industry. Multiple applications, especially in chemistry and novel drug discovery, encourage rapid development of machine learning models in this area. To keep up with the pace of new research, proper experimental design, fair evaluation, and independent benchmarks are essential. Design of strong baselines is an indispensable element of such works. In this thesis, we explore multiple approaches to graph classification. We focus on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which emerged as a de facto standard deep learning technique for graph representation learning. Classical approaches, such as graph descriptors and molecular fingerprints, are also addressed. We design fair evaluation experimental protocol and choose proper datasets collection. This allows us to perform numerous experiments and rigorously analyze modern approaches. We arrive to many conclusions, which shed new light on performance and quality of novel algorithms. We investigate application of Jumping Knowledge GNN architecture to graph classification, which proves to be an efficient tool for improving base graph neural network architectures. Multiple improvements to baseline models are also proposed and experimentally verified, which constitutes an important contribution to the field of fair model comparison.

Graph convolution is the core of most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and usually approximated by message passing between direct (one-hop) neighbors. In this work, we remove the restriction of using only the direct neighbors by introducing a powerful, yet spatially localized graph convolution: Graph diffusion convolution (GDC). GDC leverages generalized graph diffusion, examples of which are the heat kernel and personalized PageRank. It alleviates the problem of noisy and often arbitrarily defined edges in real graphs. We show that GDC is closely related to spectral-based models and thus combines the strengths of both spatial (message passing) and spectral methods. We demonstrate that replacing message passing with graph diffusion convolution consistently leads to significant performance improvements across a wide range of models on both supervised and unsupervised tasks and a variety of datasets. Furthermore, GDC is not limited to GNNs but can trivially be combined with any graph-based model or algorithm (e.g. spectral clustering) without requiring any changes to the latter or affecting its computational complexity. Our implementation is available online. 1