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Hauptverfasser: Pan, Hongxu, Hu, Shuxian, Zhou, Mo, Wang, Zhibin, Gu, Rong, Tian, Chen, Yang, Kun, Zhong, Sheng
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19188
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author Pan, Hongxu
Hu, Shuxian
Zhou, Mo
Wang, Zhibin
Gu, Rong
Tian, Chen
Yang, Kun
Zhong, Sheng
author_facet Pan, Hongxu
Hu, Shuxian
Zhou, Mo
Wang, Zhibin
Gu, Rong
Tian, Chen
Yang, Kun
Zhong, Sheng
contents Researchers have proposed various methods of incorporating more structured information into the design of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to enhance their expressiveness. However, these methods are either computationally expensive or lacking in provable expressiveness. In this paper, we observe that the chords increase the complexity of the graph structure while contributing little useful information in many cases. In contrast, chordless structures are more efficient and effective for representing the graph. Therefore, when leveraging the information of cycles, we choose to omit the chords. Accordingly, we propose a Chordless Structure-based Graph Neural Network (CSGNN) and prove that its expressiveness is strictly more powerful than the k-hop GNN (KPGNN) with polynomial complexity. Experimental results on real-world datasets demonstrate that CSGNN outperforms existing GNNs across various graph tasks while incurring lower computational costs and achieving better performance than the GNNs of 3-WL expressiveness.
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spellingShingle Chordless Structure: A Pathway to Simple and Expressive GNNs
Pan, Hongxu
Hu, Shuxian
Zhou, Mo
Wang, Zhibin
Gu, Rong
Tian, Chen
Yang, Kun
Zhong, Sheng
Machine Learning
Researchers have proposed various methods of incorporating more structured information into the design of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to enhance their expressiveness. However, these methods are either computationally expensive or lacking in provable expressiveness. In this paper, we observe that the chords increase the complexity of the graph structure while contributing little useful information in many cases. In contrast, chordless structures are more efficient and effective for representing the graph. Therefore, when leveraging the information of cycles, we choose to omit the chords. Accordingly, we propose a Chordless Structure-based Graph Neural Network (CSGNN) and prove that its expressiveness is strictly more powerful than the k-hop GNN (KPGNN) with polynomial complexity. Experimental results on real-world datasets demonstrate that CSGNN outperforms existing GNNs across various graph tasks while incurring lower computational costs and achieving better performance than the GNNs of 3-WL expressiveness.
title Chordless Structure: A Pathway to Simple and Expressive GNNs
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19188