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48 results for Neural Neighborhood

Neighborhood sampling affects graph neural network training outcomes.

problem Understanding the impact of neighborhood sampling on graph neural network training.
method Theoretical analysis using neural tangent kernels and Gaussian processes.
result Posterior covariance differs for different neighborhood sampling approaches, indicating no dominant approach.

Revises GNN neighborhood aggregation for more accurate node classification.

problem Flaws in benchmark GNN models for node classification.
method Statistical signal processing approach to neighborhood aggregation.
result Novel insights for designing more efficient GNN models.

Learning graph-structured data with graph neural networks (GNNs) has been recently emerging as an important field because of its wide applicability in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, social network analysis and data mining. Recent GNN algorithms are based on neural message passing, which enables GNNs to integrate loc…

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a dynamic neighborhood aggregation (DNA) procedure guided by (multi-head) attention for representation learning on graphs. In contrast to current graph neural networks which follow a simple neighborhood aggregation scheme, our DNA procedure allows for a selective and node-adaptive aggregation of neighboring …

2019-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Many prediction problems can be phrased as inferences over local neighborhoods of graphs. The graph represents the interaction between entities, and the neighborhood of each entity contains information that allows the inferences or predictions. We present an approach for applying machine learning directly to such graph…

2016-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

As an efficient and scalable graph neural network, GraphSAGE has enabled an inductive capability for inferring unseen nodes or graphs by aggregating subsampled local neighborhoods and by learning in a mini-batch gradient descent fashion. The neighborhood sampling used in GraphSAGE is effective in order to improve compu…

2019-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A new GNN model SPIN achieves state-of-the-art performance on diverse real-world datasets.

problem Graph classification efficiency and accuracy.
method Parallel neighborhood aggregations (PA-GNNs) and SPIN model.
result SPIN model achieves state-of-the-art performance on diverse real-world datasets.

Proposes NRS to find flat minima in deep neural networks.

problem Finding optimal solutions in deep neural networks with overparameterization.
method NRS leverages the concept of flat minima and uses Kullback-Leibler divergence to regularize the neighborhood region in weight space.
result NRS drives optimizers towards flat minima, improving generalization ability across various model architectures.

Develops GNNs for incomplete graphs, improving learning from missing node attributes.

problem Learning from incomplete graphs with missing node attributes.
method Introduces PaGNNs with novel partial aggregation functions for incomplete graph data.
result Demonstrates effectiveness and efficiency of PaGNNs on various datasets.

GCNs learn by embedding similar nodes within a class and leveraging consistent neighborhood structures.

problem Understanding how GCNs perform semi-supervised node classification on both homophilous and heterophilous graphs.
method Investigated the latent node embeddings and neighborhood structures of GCNs.
result GCNs learn by embedding similar nodes within a class and leveraging consistent neighborhood structures.

PushNet efficiently and adaptively pushes messages in neural networks, improving performance.

problem Inefficient and inflexible synchronous message passing in neural networks.
method Asynchronous message passing with adaptive receptive fields and multiple scale correlations.
result PushNet outperforms competitors in semi-supervised node classification on multiple datasets.

A new classifier encodes local neighborhoods for each class using Fly Bloom Filters.

problem Efficiently classify data with single-pass learning.
method Proposes a new classifier that encodes local neighborhoods for each class with per-class Fly Bloom Filters.
result The proposed classifier's performance is competitive with nearest-neighbor classifiers and other single-pass classifiers.

NCP improves deep classifier uncertainty quantification efficiency.

problem Uncertainty quantification for deep classifiers in high-stake applications.
method Neighborhood Conformal Prediction (NCP) algorithm.
result NCP produces smaller prediction sets than traditional CP methods.

The paper studies neural networks' convergence near origin and saddle points.

problem Directional convergence of neural networks near small initializations and saddle points.
method Gradient flow dynamics analysis of two-homogeneous neural networks.
result Neural networks' weights approximately converge in direction to KKT points for small initializations.

VisitHGNN predicts visit probabilities between neighborhoods and POIs using graph neural networks.

problem Estimating visit probabilities between neighborhoods and POIs for urban planning.
method Heterogeneous, relation-specific graph neural network (VisitHGNN) trained on mobility data.
result Strong predictive performance with high fidelity to observed travel behavior.

Spectral analysis of neighborhood graphs is one of the most widely used techniques for exploratory data analysis, with applications ranging from machine learning to social sciences. In such applications, it is typical to first encode relationships between the data samples using an appropriate similarity function. Popul…

2016-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Feed-forward networks are widely used in cross-modal applications to bridge modalities by mapping distributed vectors of one modality to the other, or to a shared space. The predicted vectors are then used to perform e.g., retrieval or labeling. Thus, the success of the whole system relies on the ability of the mapping…

2018-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph representation learning, aiming to learn low-dimensional representations which capture the geometric dependencies between nodes in the original graph, has gained increasing popularity in a variety of graph analysis tasks, including node classification and link prediction. Existing representation learning methods …

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph neural networks struggle with heterophily, but new designs improve their performance.

problem Graph neural networks struggle with heterophily (networks where connected nodes may have different class labels and dissimilar features).
method Ego- and neighbor-embedding separation, higher-order neighborhoods, and combination of intermediate representations.
result The identified designs increase the accuracy of GNNs by up to 40% and 27% over models without them on synthetic and real networks with heterophily, respectively.

HKConv learns hyperbolic features by aggregating kernel points.

problem Challenges in learning good hyperbolic representations using Euclidean operations.
method Proposes HKConv, a trainable hyperbolic convolution that correlates local features with kernel points and aggregates them.
result HKConv learns expressive local features according to hyperbolic geometry and enjoys equivariance to permutation and invariance to parallel transport.

Gradient descent in neural networks analyzed using RKBS for broader applicability.

problem Analyzing neural network training in the over-parametrized limit.
method Constructing an exact power-series representation of neural networks in RKBS, proving replicability of gradient descent sequences.
result Gradient descent sequences can be exactly replicated by regularized sequential learning in RKBS, providing new theoretical insights.

GraphReach improves GNN performance by incorporating node positions.

problem Existing GNNs fail to capture node positions, leading to inaccurate predictions.
method GraphReach uses reachability estimations from anchor nodes to capture global node positions.
result GraphReach achieves up to 40% relative improvement in accuracy compared to state-of-the-art GNNs.

We present graph attention networks (GATs), novel neural network architectures that operate on graph-structured data, leveraging masked self-attentional layers to address the shortcomings of prior methods based on graph convolutions or their approximations. By stacking layers in which nodes are able to attend over thei…

2017-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Almost all local minima in neural networks are strongly convex.

problem The prevalence of strongly convex neighborhoods around local minima in neural network optimization landscapes.
method Rigorous analysis of shallow neural networks with analytic activation functions, dividing parameter space into efficient and redundant domains.
result For shallow neural networks on the efficient domain, almost all local minima are strongly convex.

Making an adaptive prediction based on one's input is an important ability for general artificial intelligence. In this work, we step forward in this direction and propose a semi-parametric method, Meta-Neighborhoods, where predictions are made adaptively to the neighborhood of the input. We show that Meta-Neighborhood…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New fusion blocks improve equivariant neural networks for molecular dynamics.

problem Designing equivariant neural networks for tasks with global symmetries.
method Using fusion diagrams from tensor networks to design novel equivariant components.
result Improved performance with fewer parameters on chemical problems.

ES-MLP combines Graph-MLP with edge splitting for node classification on both homophilic and heterophilic graphs.

problem Node classification on graphs with mixed homophilic and heterophilic properties.
method Combines Graph-MLP with edge splitting mechanism from ES-GNN to learn two adjacency matrices based on relevant and irrelevant feature pairs.
result ES-MLP achieves performance comparable to homophilic and heterophilic models without using edges during inference.

Develops a smooth operator framework for analyzing neural network representations.

problem Analyzing the geometry of feedforward neural network representations.
method Introduces a smooth operator-theoretic approach based on diffusion Markov operators derived from feature clouds.
result Establishes a stable operator-geometric framework for tracking training, width, and perturbation stability.

New approach to deeper graph neural networks to avoid performance degradation.

problem Performance degradation of graph neural networks when going deeper.
method Decoupling representation transformation and propagation in graph convolution operations.
result Deeper graph neural networks can be used to learn graph node representations from larger receptive fields.

Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been successfully applied to representation learning on graphs in a variety of real-world applications. However, two fundamental weaknesses of MPNNs' aggregators limit their ability to represent graph-structured data: losing the structural information of nodes in neighborhoo…

2020-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This work presents a two-stage neural architecture for learning and refining structural correspondences between graphs. First, we use localized node embeddings computed by a graph neural network to obtain an initial ranking of soft correspondences between nodes. Secondly, we employ synchronous message passing networks …

2020-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood multiple times.

problem Understanding geodesics entering a specific cusp neighborhood multiple times.
method Investigate reciprocal geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood a fixed number of times.
result Characterized the class of reciprocal geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood a fixed number of times.

It is not until recently that graph neural networks (GNNs) are adopted to perform graph representation learning, among which, those based on the aggregation of features within the neighborhood of a node achieved great success. However, despite such achievements, GNNs illustrate defects in identifying some common struct…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved anti-cancer drug sensitivity prediction using REFINED CNN ensemble learning.

problem Challenges in predicting anti-cancer drug sensitivity for individual cell lines.
method Using REFINED CNN, which represents high-dimensional vectors as compact 2D images with spatial correlations, and building ensembles of these models.
result Ensemble approaches significantly improve drug sensitivity prediction performance compared to single models.

Skeleta and other pure subsets of manifold stratified spaces are shown to have neighborhoods which are teardrops of stratified approximate fibrations (under dimension and compactness assumptions). In general, the stratified approximate fibrations cannot be replaced by bundles, and the teardrops cannot be replaced by ma…

2005-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗