Title
Graph Neural Networks with Learnable Structural and Positional Representations
Abstract
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the standard learning architectures for graphs. GNNs have been applied to numerous domains ranging from quantum chemistry, recommender systems to knowledge graphs and natural language processing. A major issue with arbitrary graphs is the absence of canonical positional information of nodes, which decreases the representation power of GNNs to distinguish e.g. isomorphic nodes and other graph symmetries. An approach to tackle this issue is to introduce Positional Encoding (PE) of nodes, and inject it into the input layer, like in Transformers. Possible graph PE are Laplacian eigenvectors. In this work, we propose to decouple structural and positional representations to make easy for the network to learn these two essential properties. We introduce a novel generic architecture which we call LSPE (Learnable Structural and Positional Encodings). We investigate several sparse and fully-connected (Transformer-like) GNNs, and observe a performance increase for molecular datasets, from 2.87% up to 64.14% when considering learnable PE for both GNN classes.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2022
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
graph neural networks,graph representation learning,transformers,positional encoding
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vijay Kumar Dwivedi100.68
Anh Tuan Luu200.34
Laurent, Thomas3747.43
Yoshua Bengio4426773039.83
Xavier Bresson5184268.08