Curriculum-Enhanced Residual Soft An-Isotropic Normalization for Over-smoothness in Deep GNNs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08221v2
• Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:38:28 GMT
• Title: Curriculum-Enhanced Residual Soft An-Isotropic Normalization for Over-smoothness in Deep GNNs
• Authors: Jin Li, Qirong Zhang, Shuling Xu, Xinlong Chen, Longkun Guo, Yang-Geng Fu
• Abstract summary: We propose a soft graph normalization method to preserve the diversities of node embeddings and prevent indiscrimination due to possible over-closeness. We also propose a novel label-smoothing-based learning framework to enhance the optimization of deep GNNs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Despite Graph neural networks' significant performance gain over many classic techniques in various graph-related downstream tasks, their successes are restricted in shallow models due to over-smoothness and the difficulties of optimizations among many other issues. In this paper, to alleviate the over-smoothing issue, we propose a soft graph normalization method to preserve the diversities of node embeddings and prevent indiscrimination due to possible over-closeness. Combined with residual connections, we analyze the reason why the method can effectively capture the knowledge in both input graph structures and node features even with deep networks. Additionally, inspired by Curriculum Learning that learns easy examples before the hard ones, we propose a novel label-smoothing-based learning framework to enhance the optimization of deep GNNs, which iteratively smooths labels in an auxiliary graph and constructs many gradual non-smooth tasks for extracting increasingly complex knowledge and gradually discriminating nodes from coarse to fine. The method arguably reduces the risk of overfitting and generalizes better results. Finally, extensive experiments are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of the proposed model and learning framework through comparison with twelve existing baselines including the state-of-the-art methods on twelve real-world node classification benchmarks.

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