'Hello, World!': Making GNNs Talk with LLMs

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Main Authors: Kim, Sunwoo, Lee, Soo Yong, Yoo, Jaemin, Shin, Kijung
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author Kim, Sunwoo
Lee, Soo Yong
Yoo, Jaemin
Shin, Kijung
author_facet Kim, Sunwoo
Lee, Soo Yong
Yoo, Jaemin
Shin, Kijung
contents While graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance across diverse graph-related tasks, their high-dimensional hidden representations render them black boxes. In this work, we propose Graph Lingual Network (GLN), a GNN built on large language models (LLMs), with hidden representations in the form of human-readable text. Through careful prompt design, GLN incorporates not only the message passing module of GNNs but also advanced GNN techniques, including graph attention and initial residual connection. The comprehensibility of GLN's hidden representations enables an intuitive analysis of how node representations change (1) across layers and (2) under advanced GNN techniques, shedding light on the inner workings of GNNs. Furthermore, we demonstrate that GLN achieves strong zero-shot performance on node classification and link prediction, outperforming existing LLM-based baseline methods.
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spellingShingle 'Hello, World!': Making GNNs Talk with LLMs
Kim, Sunwoo
Lee, Soo Yong
Yoo, Jaemin
Shin, Kijung
Machine Learning
While graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance across diverse graph-related tasks, their high-dimensional hidden representations render them black boxes. In this work, we propose Graph Lingual Network (GLN), a GNN built on large language models (LLMs), with hidden representations in the form of human-readable text. Through careful prompt design, GLN incorporates not only the message passing module of GNNs but also advanced GNN techniques, including graph attention and initial residual connection. The comprehensibility of GLN's hidden representations enables an intuitive analysis of how node representations change (1) across layers and (2) under advanced GNN techniques, shedding light on the inner workings of GNNs. Furthermore, we demonstrate that GLN achieves strong zero-shot performance on node classification and link prediction, outperforming existing LLM-based baseline methods.
title 'Hello, World!': Making GNNs Talk with LLMs
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20742