Generalization of Geometric Graph Neural Networks with Lipschitz Loss Functions

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Zhiyang, Cervino, Juan, Ribeiro, Alejandro
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author Wang, Zhiyang
Cervino, Juan
Ribeiro, Alejandro
author_facet Wang, Zhiyang
Cervino, Juan
Ribeiro, Alejandro
contents In this paper, we study the generalization capabilities of geometric graph neural networks (GNNs). We consider GNNs over a geometric graph constructed from a finite set of randomly sampled points over an embedded manifold with topological information captured. We prove a generalization gap between the optimal empirical risk and the optimal statistical risk of this GNN, which decreases with the number of sampled points from the manifold and increases with the dimension of the underlying manifold. This generalization gap ensures that the GNN trained on a graph on a set of sampled points can be utilized to process other unseen graphs constructed from the same underlying manifold. The most important observation is that the generalization capability can be realized with one large graph instead of being limited to the size of the graph as in previous results. The generalization gap is derived based on the non-asymptotic convergence result of a GNN on the sampled graph to the underlying manifold neural networks (MNNs). We verify this theoretical result with experiments on multiple real-world datasets.
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spellingShingle Generalization of Geometric Graph Neural Networks with Lipschitz Loss Functions
Wang, Zhiyang
Cervino, Juan
Ribeiro, Alejandro
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
In this paper, we study the generalization capabilities of geometric graph neural networks (GNNs). We consider GNNs over a geometric graph constructed from a finite set of randomly sampled points over an embedded manifold with topological information captured. We prove a generalization gap between the optimal empirical risk and the optimal statistical risk of this GNN, which decreases with the number of sampled points from the manifold and increases with the dimension of the underlying manifold. This generalization gap ensures that the GNN trained on a graph on a set of sampled points can be utilized to process other unseen graphs constructed from the same underlying manifold. The most important observation is that the generalization capability can be realized with one large graph instead of being limited to the size of the graph as in previous results. The generalization gap is derived based on the non-asymptotic convergence result of a GNN on the sampled graph to the underlying manifold neural networks (MNNs). We verify this theoretical result with experiments on multiple real-world datasets.
title Generalization of Geometric Graph Neural Networks with Lipschitz Loss Functions
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05191