GNNDLD: Graph Neural Network with Directional Label Distribution

Chandramani Chaudhary, Nirmal Boran, N. Sangeeth, Virendra Singh

2024

Abstract

By leveraging graph structure, Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have emerged as a useful model for graph-based datasets. While it is widely assumed that GNNs outperform basic neural networks, recent research shows that for some datasets, neural networks outperform GNNs. Heterophily is one of the primary causes of GNN performance degradation, and many models have been proposed to handle it. Furthermore, some intrinsic information in graph structure is often overlooked, such as edge direction. In this work, we propose GNNDLD, a model which exploits the edge direction and label distribution around a node in varying neighborhoods (hop-wise). We combine features from all layers to retain both low-pass frequency and high-pass frequency components of a node because different layers of neural networks provide different types of information. In addition, to avoid oversmoothing, we decouple the node feature aggregation and transformation operations. By combining all of these concepts, we present a simple yet very efficient model. Experiments on six standard real-world datasets show the superiority of GNNDLD over the state-of-the-art models in both homophily and heterophily.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chaudhary C., Boran N., Sangeeth N. and Singh V. (2024). GNNDLD: Graph Neural Network with Directional Label Distribution. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, SciTePress, pages 165-176. DOI: 10.5220/0012321400003636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart24,
author={Chandramani Chaudhary and Nirmal Boran and N. Sangeeth and Virendra Singh},
title={GNNDLD: Graph Neural Network with Directional Label Distribution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART},
year={2024},
pages={165-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012321400003636},
isbn={978-989-758-680-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART
TI - GNNDLD: Graph Neural Network with Directional Label Distribution
SN - 978-989-758-680-4
AU - Chaudhary C.
AU - Boran N.
AU - Sangeeth N.
AU - Singh V.
PY - 2024
SP - 165
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0012321400003636
PB - SciTePress