Non-backtracking Graph Neural Networks

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Autori principali: Park, Seonghyun, Ryu, Narae, Kim, Gahee, Woo, Dongyeop, Yun, Se-Young, Ahn, Sungsoo
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Park, Seonghyun
Ryu, Narae
Kim, Gahee
Woo, Dongyeop
Yun, Se-Young
Ahn, Sungsoo
author_facet Park, Seonghyun
Ryu, Narae
Kim, Gahee
Woo, Dongyeop
Yun, Se-Young
Ahn, Sungsoo
contents The celebrated message-passing updates for graph neural networks allow representing large-scale graphs with local and computationally tractable updates. However, the updates suffer from backtracking, i.e., a message flowing through the same edge twice and revisiting the previously visited node. Since the number of message flows increases exponentially with the number of updates, the redundancy in local updates prevents the graph neural network from accurately recognizing a particular message flow relevant for downstream tasks. In this work, we propose to resolve such a redundancy issue via the non-backtracking graph neural network (NBA-GNN) that updates a message without incorporating the message from the previously visited node. We theoretically investigate how NBA-GNN alleviates the over-squashing of GNNs, and establish a connection between NBA-GNN and the impressive performance of non-backtracking updates for stochastic block model recovery. Furthermore, we empirically verify the effectiveness of our NBA-GNN on the long-range graph benchmark and transductive node classification problems.
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Park, Seonghyun
Ryu, Narae
Kim, Gahee
Woo, Dongyeop
Yun, Se-Young
Ahn, Sungsoo
Machine Learning
The celebrated message-passing updates for graph neural networks allow representing large-scale graphs with local and computationally tractable updates. However, the updates suffer from backtracking, i.e., a message flowing through the same edge twice and revisiting the previously visited node. Since the number of message flows increases exponentially with the number of updates, the redundancy in local updates prevents the graph neural network from accurately recognizing a particular message flow relevant for downstream tasks. In this work, we propose to resolve such a redundancy issue via the non-backtracking graph neural network (NBA-GNN) that updates a message without incorporating the message from the previously visited node. We theoretically investigate how NBA-GNN alleviates the over-squashing of GNNs, and establish a connection between NBA-GNN and the impressive performance of non-backtracking updates for stochastic block model recovery. Furthermore, we empirically verify the effectiveness of our NBA-GNN on the long-range graph benchmark and transductive node classification problems.
title Non-backtracking Graph Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07430