Channel-Attentive Graph Neural Networks
This addresses a key bottleneck in GNNs for domains like social networks and molecular analysis, though it is an incremental improvement over existing methods.
The paper tackles the over-smoothing problem in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by proposing a Channel-Attentive GNN that uses adaptive channel-wise message-passing, achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets with strong heterophily.
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) set the state-of-the-art in representation learning for graph-structured data. They are used in many domains, from online social networks to complex molecules. Most GNNs leverage the message-passing paradigm and achieve strong performances on various tasks. However, the message-passing mechanism used in most models suffers from over-smoothing as a GNN's depth increases. The over-smoothing degrades GNN's performance due to the increased similarity between the representations of unrelated nodes. This study proposes an adaptive channel-wise message-passing approach to alleviate the over-smoothing. The proposed model, Channel-Attentive GNN, learns how to attend to neighboring nodes and their feature channels. Thus, much diverse information can be transferred between nodes during message-passing. Experiments with widely used benchmark datasets show that the proposed model is more resistant to over-smoothing than baselines and achieves state-of-the-art performances for various graphs with strong heterophily. Our code is at https://github.com/ALLab-Boun/CHAT-GNN.