TGB-Seq Benchmark: Challenging Temporal GNNs with Complex Sequential Dynamics

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Hauptverfasser: Yi, Lu, Peng, Jie, Zheng, Yanping, Mo, Fengran, Wei, Zhewei, Ye, Yuhang, Zixuan, Yue, Huang, Zengfeng
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author Yi, Lu
Peng, Jie
Zheng, Yanping
Mo, Fengran
Wei, Zhewei
Ye, Yuhang
Zixuan, Yue
Huang, Zengfeng
author_facet Yi, Lu
Peng, Jie
Zheng, Yanping
Mo, Fengran
Wei, Zhewei
Ye, Yuhang
Zixuan, Yue
Huang, Zengfeng
contents Future link prediction is a fundamental challenge in various real-world dynamic systems. To address this, numerous temporal graph neural networks (temporal GNNs) and benchmark datasets have been developed. However, these datasets often feature excessive repeated edges and lack complex sequential dynamics, a key characteristic inherent in many real-world applications such as recommender systems and ``Who-To-Follow'' on social networks. This oversight has led existing methods to inadvertently downplay the importance of learning sequential dynamics, focusing primarily on predicting repeated edges. In this study, we demonstrate that existing methods, such as GraphMixer and DyGFormer, are inherently incapable of learning simple sequential dynamics, such as ``a user who has followed OpenAI and Anthropic is more likely to follow AI at Meta next.'' Motivated by this issue, we introduce the Temporal Graph Benchmark with Sequential Dynamics (TGB-Seq), a new benchmark carefully curated to minimize repeated edges, challenging models to learn sequential dynamics and generalize to unseen edges. TGB-Seq comprises large real-world datasets spanning diverse domains, including e-commerce interactions, movie ratings, business reviews, social networks, citation networks and web link networks. Benchmarking experiments reveal that current methods usually suffer significant performance degradation and incur substantial training costs on TGB-Seq, posing new challenges and opportunities for future research. TGB-Seq datasets, leaderboards, and example codes are available at https://tgb-seq.github.io/.
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spellingShingle TGB-Seq Benchmark: Challenging Temporal GNNs with Complex Sequential Dynamics
Yi, Lu
Peng, Jie
Zheng, Yanping
Mo, Fengran
Wei, Zhewei
Ye, Yuhang
Zixuan, Yue
Huang, Zengfeng
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Future link prediction is a fundamental challenge in various real-world dynamic systems. To address this, numerous temporal graph neural networks (temporal GNNs) and benchmark datasets have been developed. However, these datasets often feature excessive repeated edges and lack complex sequential dynamics, a key characteristic inherent in many real-world applications such as recommender systems and ``Who-To-Follow'' on social networks. This oversight has led existing methods to inadvertently downplay the importance of learning sequential dynamics, focusing primarily on predicting repeated edges. In this study, we demonstrate that existing methods, such as GraphMixer and DyGFormer, are inherently incapable of learning simple sequential dynamics, such as ``a user who has followed OpenAI and Anthropic is more likely to follow AI at Meta next.'' Motivated by this issue, we introduce the Temporal Graph Benchmark with Sequential Dynamics (TGB-Seq), a new benchmark carefully curated to minimize repeated edges, challenging models to learn sequential dynamics and generalize to unseen edges. TGB-Seq comprises large real-world datasets spanning diverse domains, including e-commerce interactions, movie ratings, business reviews, social networks, citation networks and web link networks. Benchmarking experiments reveal that current methods usually suffer significant performance degradation and incur substantial training costs on TGB-Seq, posing new challenges and opportunities for future research. TGB-Seq datasets, leaderboards, and example codes are available at https://tgb-seq.github.io/.
title TGB-Seq Benchmark: Challenging Temporal GNNs with Complex Sequential Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02975