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Automatic Relation-aware Graph Network Proliferation

31 May 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2205.15678archive 2025-07-28

Shaofei Cai, Liang Li, Xinzhe Han, Jiebo Luo, Zheng-Jun Zha, Qingming Huang

Graph neural architecture search has sparked much attention as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown powerful reasoning capability in many relational tasks. However, the currently used graph search space overemphasizes learning node features and neglects mining hierarchical relational information. Moreover, due to diverse mechanisms in the message passing, the graph search space is much larger than that of CNNs. This hinders the straightforward application of classical search strategies for exploring complicated graph search space. We propose Automatic Relation-aware Graph Network Proliferation (ARGNP) for efficiently searching GNNs with a relation-guided message passing mechanism. Specifically, we first devise a novel dual relation-aware graph search space that comprises both node and relation learning operations. These operations can extract hierarchical node/relational information and provide anisotropic guidance for message passing on a graph. Second, analogous to cell proliferation, we design a network proliferation search paradigm to progressively determine the GNN architectures by iteratively performing network division and differentiation. The experiments on six datasets for four graph learning tasks demonstrate that GNNs produced by our method are superior to the current state-of-the-art hand-crafted and search-based GNNs. Codes are available at https://github.com/phython96/ARGNP.

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Graph ClassificationGraph LearningGraph RegressionLink PredictionNeural Architecture SearchNode Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Graph Classification CIFAR10 100k ARGNP Accuracy (%) 73.90 #9 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Regression ZINC 100k ARGNP MAE 0.136 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction TSP/HCP Benchmark set ARGNP F1 0.855 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Node Classification CLUSTER ARGNP Accuracy 77.35 #11 of 12 Archive leaderboard report

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