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Recently popularized graph neural networks achieve the state-of-the-art accuracy on a number of standard benchmark datasets for graph-based semi-supervised learning, improving significantly over existing approaches. These architectures alternate between a propagation layer that aggregates the hidden states of the local neighborhood and a fully-connected layer. Perhaps surprisingly, we show that a linear model, that removes all the intermediate fully-connected layers, is still able to achieve a performance comparable to the state-of-the-art models. This significantly reduces the number of parameters, which is critical for semi-supervised learning where number of labeled examples are small. This in turn allows a room for designing more innovative propagation layers. Based on this insight, we propose a novel graph neural network that removes all the intermediate fully-connected layers, and replaces the propagation layers with attention mechanisms that respect the structure of the graph. The attention mechanism allows us to learn a dynamic and adaptive local summary of the neighborhood to achieve more accurate predictions. In a number of experiments on benchmark citation networks datasets, we demonstrate that our approach outperforms competing methods. By examining the attention weights among neighbors, we show that our model provides some interesting insights on how neighbors influence each other.

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How Attentive are Graph Attention Networks?

cs.LG · 2021-05-30 · conditional · novelty 7.0

GAT uses static attention where neighbor rankings ignore the query node and thus cannot express some graph problems; GATv2 enables dynamic attention and outperforms GAT on 11 OGB and other benchmarks with equal parameters.

Attention-based graph neural networks: a survey

cs.SI · 2026-05-09 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

The survey groups attention-based GNNs into three stages—graph recurrent attention networks, graph attention networks, and graph transformers—while reviewing architectures and future directions.

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  • How Attentive are Graph Attention Networks? cs.LG · 2021-05-30 · conditional · none · ref 53 · internal anchor

    GAT uses static attention where neighbor rankings ignore the query node and thus cannot express some graph problems; GATv2 enables dynamic attention and outperforms GAT on 11 OGB and other benchmarks with equal parameters.

  • Concept Graph Convolutions: Message Passing in the Concept Space cs.LG · 2026-04-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 16

    Concept Graph Convolutions perform message passing on node concepts to increase interpretability of graph neural networks without losing task performance.

  • Fast Graph Representation Learning with PyTorch Geometric cs.LG · 2019-03-06 · accept · none · ref 41

    PyTorch Geometric is a PyTorch library that delivers fast graph neural network training through sparse GPU kernels and variable-size mini-batching.

  • Attention-based graph neural networks: a survey cs.SI · 2026-05-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 36

    The survey groups attention-based GNNs into three stages—graph recurrent attention networks, graph attention networks, and graph transformers—while reviewing architectures and future directions.