On the Expressive Power of Sparse Geometric MPNNs

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Main Authors: Sverdlov, Yonatan, Dym, Nadav
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Published: 2024
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author Sverdlov, Yonatan
Dym, Nadav
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Dym, Nadav
contents Motivated by applications in chemistry and other sciences, we study the expressive power of message-passing neural networks for geometric graphs, whose node features correspond to 3-dimensional positions. Recent work has shown that such models can separate generic pairs of non-isomorphic geometric graphs, though they may fail to separate some rare and complicated instances. However, these results assume a fully connected graph, where each node possesses complete knowledge of all other nodes. In contrast, often, in application, every node only possesses knowledge of a small number of nearest neighbors. This paper shows that generic pairs of non-isomorphic geometric graphs can be separated by message-passing networks with rotation equivariant features as long as the underlying graph is connected. When only invariant intermediate features are allowed, generic separation is guaranteed for generically globally rigid graphs. We introduce a simple architecture, EGENNET, which achieves our theoretical guarantees and compares favorably with alternative architecture on synthetic and chemical benchmarks. Our code is available at https://github.com/yonatansverdlov/E-GenNet.
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spellingShingle On the Expressive Power of Sparse Geometric MPNNs
Sverdlov, Yonatan
Dym, Nadav
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Motivated by applications in chemistry and other sciences, we study the expressive power of message-passing neural networks for geometric graphs, whose node features correspond to 3-dimensional positions. Recent work has shown that such models can separate generic pairs of non-isomorphic geometric graphs, though they may fail to separate some rare and complicated instances. However, these results assume a fully connected graph, where each node possesses complete knowledge of all other nodes. In contrast, often, in application, every node only possesses knowledge of a small number of nearest neighbors. This paper shows that generic pairs of non-isomorphic geometric graphs can be separated by message-passing networks with rotation equivariant features as long as the underlying graph is connected. When only invariant intermediate features are allowed, generic separation is guaranteed for generically globally rigid graphs. We introduce a simple architecture, EGENNET, which achieves our theoretical guarantees and compares favorably with alternative architecture on synthetic and chemical benchmarks. Our code is available at https://github.com/yonatansverdlov/E-GenNet.
title On the Expressive Power of Sparse Geometric MPNNs
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02025