The Impact of Global Structural Information in Graph Neural Networks Applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03814v2
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:37:31 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Global Structural Information in Graph Neural Networks Applications
• Authors: Davide Buffelli, Fabio Vandin
• Abstract summary: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) rely on the graph structure to define an aggregation strategy. A known limitation of GNNs is that, as the number of layers increases, information gets smoothed and squashed. We give access to global information to several GNN models and observe the impact it has on downstream performance.
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• Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) rely on the graph structure to define an aggregation strategy where each node updates its representation by combining information from its neighbours. A known limitation of GNNs is that, as the number of layers increases, information gets smoothed and squashed and node embeddings become indistinguishable, negatively affecting performance. Therefore, practical GNN models employ few layers and only leverage the graph structure in terms of limited, small neighbourhoods around each node. Inevitably, practical GNNs do not capture information depending on the global structure of the graph. While there have been several works studying the limitations and expressivity of GNNs, the question of whether practical applications on graph structured data require global structural knowledge or not, remains unanswered. In this work, we empirically address this question by giving access to global information to several GNN models, and observing the impact it has on downstream performance. Our results show that global information can in fact provide significant benefits for common graph-related tasks. We further identify a novel regularization strategy that leads to an average accuracy improvement of more than 5% on all considered tasks.

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