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Main Authors: Gillespie, Patrick, Hamdan, Layal Bou, Schizas, Ioannis, Boothe, David L., Maroulas, Vasileios
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09590
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author Gillespie, Patrick
Hamdan, Layal Bou
Schizas, Ioannis
Boothe, David L.
Maroulas, Vasileios
author_facet Gillespie, Patrick
Hamdan, Layal Bou
Schizas, Ioannis
Boothe, David L.
Maroulas, Vasileios
contents Equipping graph neural networks with a convolution operation defined in terms of a cellular sheaf offers advantages for learning expressive representations of heterophilic graph data. The most flexible approach to constructing the sheaf is to learn it as part of the network as a function of the node features. However, this leaves the network potentially overly sensitive to the learned sheaf. As a counter-measure, we propose a variational approach to learning cellular sheaves within sheaf neural networks, yielding an architecture we refer to as a Bayesian sheaf neural network. As part of this work, we define a novel family of reparameterizable probability distributions on the rotation group $SO(n)$ using the Cayley transform. We evaluate the Bayesian sheaf neural network on several graph datasets, and show that our Bayesian sheaf models achieve leading performance compared to baseline models and are less sensitive to the choice of hyperparameters under limited training data settings.
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spellingShingle Bayesian Sheaf Neural Networks
Gillespie, Patrick
Hamdan, Layal Bou
Schizas, Ioannis
Boothe, David L.
Maroulas, Vasileios
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
Equipping graph neural networks with a convolution operation defined in terms of a cellular sheaf offers advantages for learning expressive representations of heterophilic graph data. The most flexible approach to constructing the sheaf is to learn it as part of the network as a function of the node features. However, this leaves the network potentially overly sensitive to the learned sheaf. As a counter-measure, we propose a variational approach to learning cellular sheaves within sheaf neural networks, yielding an architecture we refer to as a Bayesian sheaf neural network. As part of this work, we define a novel family of reparameterizable probability distributions on the rotation group $SO(n)$ using the Cayley transform. We evaluate the Bayesian sheaf neural network on several graph datasets, and show that our Bayesian sheaf models achieve leading performance compared to baseline models and are less sensitive to the choice of hyperparameters under limited training data settings.
title Bayesian Sheaf Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09590