Understanding Oversmoothing in GNNs as Consensus in Opinion Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19089v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:34:09 GMT
• Title: Understanding Oversmoothing in GNNs as Consensus in Opinion Dynamics
• Authors: Keqin Wang, Yulong Yang, Ishan Saha, Christine Allen-Blanchette,
• Abstract summary: We show an analogy between oversmoothing in graph neural networks (GNNs) and consensus or agreement in opinion dynamics. We design a new continuous-depth GNN model based on nonlinear opinion dynamics and prove that our model, which we call behavior-inspired message passing neural network (BIMP) circumvents oversmoothing for general inputs.
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• Abstract: In contrast to classes of neural networks where the learned representations become increasingly expressive with network depth, the learned representations in graph neural networks (GNNs), tend to become increasingly similar. This phenomena, known as oversmoothing, is characterized by learned representations that cannot be reliably differentiated leading to reduced predictive performance. In this paper, we propose an analogy between oversmoothing in GNNs and consensus or agreement in opinion dynamics. Through this analogy, we show that the message passing structure of recent continuous-depth GNNs is equivalent to a special case of opinion dynamics (i.e., linear consensus models) which has been theoretically proven to converge to consensus (i.e., oversmoothing) for all inputs. Using the understanding developed through this analogy, we design a new continuous-depth GNN model based on nonlinear opinion dynamics and prove that our model, which we call behavior-inspired message passing neural network (BIMP) circumvents oversmoothing for general inputs. Through extensive experiments, we show that BIMP is robust to oversmoothing and adversarial attack, and consistently outperforms competitive baselines on numerous benchmarks.

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