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Main Authors: Bilgi, H. Çağrı, Chen, Lydia Y., Atasu, Kubilay
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00241
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author Bilgi, H. Çağrı
Chen, Lydia Y.
Atasu, Kubilay
author_facet Bilgi, H. Çağrı
Chen, Lydia Y.
Atasu, Kubilay
contents Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have seen significant advances in recent years, yet their application to multigraphs, where parallel edges exist between the same pair of nodes, remains under-explored. Standard GNNs, designed for simple graphs, compute node representations by combining all connected edges at once, without distinguishing between edges from different neighbors. There are some GNN architectures proposed specifically for multigraphs, yet these architectures perform only node-level aggregation in their message passing layers, which limits their expressive power. Furthermore, these approaches either lack permutation equivariance when a strict total edge ordering is absent, or fail to preserve the topological structure of the multigraph. To address all these shortcomings, we propose MEGA-GNN, a unified framework for message passing on multigraphs that can effectively perform diverse graph learning tasks. Our approach introduces a two-stage aggregation process in the message passing layers: first, parallel edges are aggregated, followed by a node-level aggregation of messages from distinct neighbors. We show that MEGA-GNN is not only permutation equivariant but also universal given a strict total ordering on the edges. Experiments show that MEGA-GNN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art solutions by up to 13\% on Anti-Money Laundering datasets and is on par with their accuracy on real-world phishing classification datasets in terms of minority class F1 score.
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spellingShingle Multigraph Message Passing with Bi-Directional Multi-Edge Aggregations
Bilgi, H. Çağrı
Chen, Lydia Y.
Atasu, Kubilay
Machine Learning
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have seen significant advances in recent years, yet their application to multigraphs, where parallel edges exist between the same pair of nodes, remains under-explored. Standard GNNs, designed for simple graphs, compute node representations by combining all connected edges at once, without distinguishing between edges from different neighbors. There are some GNN architectures proposed specifically for multigraphs, yet these architectures perform only node-level aggregation in their message passing layers, which limits their expressive power. Furthermore, these approaches either lack permutation equivariance when a strict total edge ordering is absent, or fail to preserve the topological structure of the multigraph. To address all these shortcomings, we propose MEGA-GNN, a unified framework for message passing on multigraphs that can effectively perform diverse graph learning tasks. Our approach introduces a two-stage aggregation process in the message passing layers: first, parallel edges are aggregated, followed by a node-level aggregation of messages from distinct neighbors. We show that MEGA-GNN is not only permutation equivariant but also universal given a strict total ordering on the edges. Experiments show that MEGA-GNN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art solutions by up to 13\% on Anti-Money Laundering datasets and is on par with their accuracy on real-world phishing classification datasets in terms of minority class F1 score.
title Multigraph Message Passing with Bi-Directional Multi-Edge Aggregations
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00241