Higher-Order Topological Directionality and Directed Simplicial Neural Networks

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Autores principales: Lecha, Manuel, Cavallo, Andrea, Dominici, Francesca, Isufi, Elvin, Battiloro, Claudio
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Publicado: 2024
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author Lecha, Manuel
Cavallo, Andrea
Dominici, Francesca
Isufi, Elvin
Battiloro, Claudio
author_facet Lecha, Manuel
Cavallo, Andrea
Dominici, Francesca
Isufi, Elvin
Battiloro, Claudio
contents Topological Deep Learning (TDL) has emerged as a paradigm to process and learn from signals defined on higher-order combinatorial topological spaces, such as simplicial or cell complexes. Although many complex systems have an asymmetric relational structure, most TDL models forcibly symmetrize these relationships. In this paper, we first introduce a novel notion of higher-order directionality and we then design Directed Simplicial Neural Networks (Dir-SNNs) based on it. Dir-SNNs are message-passing networks operating on directed simplicial complexes able to leverage directed and possibly asymmetric interactions among the simplices. To our knowledge, this is the first TDL model using a notion of higher-order directionality. We theoretically and empirically prove that Dir-SNNs are more expressive than their directed graph counterpart in distinguishing isomorphic directed graphs. Experiments on a synthetic source localization task demonstrate that Dir-SNNs outperform undirected SNNs when the underlying complex is directed, and perform comparably when the underlying complex is undirected.
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spellingShingle Higher-Order Topological Directionality and Directed Simplicial Neural Networks
Lecha, Manuel
Cavallo, Andrea
Dominici, Francesca
Isufi, Elvin
Battiloro, Claudio
Machine Learning
Topological Deep Learning (TDL) has emerged as a paradigm to process and learn from signals defined on higher-order combinatorial topological spaces, such as simplicial or cell complexes. Although many complex systems have an asymmetric relational structure, most TDL models forcibly symmetrize these relationships. In this paper, we first introduce a novel notion of higher-order directionality and we then design Directed Simplicial Neural Networks (Dir-SNNs) based on it. Dir-SNNs are message-passing networks operating on directed simplicial complexes able to leverage directed and possibly asymmetric interactions among the simplices. To our knowledge, this is the first TDL model using a notion of higher-order directionality. We theoretically and empirically prove that Dir-SNNs are more expressive than their directed graph counterpart in distinguishing isomorphic directed graphs. Experiments on a synthetic source localization task demonstrate that Dir-SNNs outperform undirected SNNs when the underlying complex is directed, and perform comparably when the underlying complex is undirected.
title Higher-Order Topological Directionality and Directed Simplicial Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08389