GraphMinNet: Learning Dependencies in Graphs with Light Complexity Minimal Architecture

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Main Authors: Ahamed, Md Atik, Cheng, Andrew, Ye, Qiang, Cheng, Qiang
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Published: 2025
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author Ahamed, Md Atik
Cheng, Andrew
Ye, Qiang
Cheng, Qiang
author_facet Ahamed, Md Atik
Cheng, Andrew
Ye, Qiang
Cheng, Qiang
contents Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various applications, yet they often struggle to capture long-range dependencies (LRD) effectively. This paper introduces GraphMinNet, a novel GNN architecture that generalizes the idea of minimal Gated Recurrent Units to graph-structured data. Our approach achieves efficient LRD modeling with linear computational complexity while maintaining permutation equivariance and stability. The model incorporates both structural and positional information through a unique combination of feature and positional encodings, leading to provably stronger expressiveness than the 1-WL test. Theoretical analysis establishes that GraphMinNet maintains non-decaying gradients over long distances, ensuring effective long-range information propagation. Extensive experiments on ten diverse datasets, including molecular graphs, image graphs, and synthetic networks, demonstrate that GraphMinNet achieves state-of-the-art performance while being computationally efficient. Our results show superior performance on 6 out of 10 datasets and competitive results on the others, validating the effectiveness of our approach in capturing both local and global graph structures.
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spellingShingle GraphMinNet: Learning Dependencies in Graphs with Light Complexity Minimal Architecture
Ahamed, Md Atik
Cheng, Andrew
Ye, Qiang
Cheng, Qiang
Machine Learning
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various applications, yet they often struggle to capture long-range dependencies (LRD) effectively. This paper introduces GraphMinNet, a novel GNN architecture that generalizes the idea of minimal Gated Recurrent Units to graph-structured data. Our approach achieves efficient LRD modeling with linear computational complexity while maintaining permutation equivariance and stability. The model incorporates both structural and positional information through a unique combination of feature and positional encodings, leading to provably stronger expressiveness than the 1-WL test. Theoretical analysis establishes that GraphMinNet maintains non-decaying gradients over long distances, ensuring effective long-range information propagation. Extensive experiments on ten diverse datasets, including molecular graphs, image graphs, and synthetic networks, demonstrate that GraphMinNet achieves state-of-the-art performance while being computationally efficient. Our results show superior performance on 6 out of 10 datasets and competitive results on the others, validating the effectiveness of our approach in capturing both local and global graph structures.
title GraphMinNet: Learning Dependencies in Graphs with Light Complexity Minimal Architecture
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00282