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Deep positional encoders for graph classification

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Ahmed Begga *
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Francisco Escolano
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Miguel Ángel Lozano
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2025.112828delete
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Structural Pattern Recognition (SPR) includes the study of graphs as encoders of non-sequential and permutation-invariant patterns. In this regard, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are paving the way towards inductive SPR where classical structural problems such as graph classification can be approached through learnable priors. However, since graphs do not have a canonical order, existing GNNs struggle to learn the structural role of each node in the graph, which becomes key in graph classification. In this paper, we address this problem by making Spectral Graph Theory inductive, i.e. by learning the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian, and then using them as positional encoders (PEs). Our experiments show that we improve significantly the SOTA of GNN-based graph classification.
Keywords:
Graph neural networks
Spectral theory
Positional encodings
Graph transformers
Complex network
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