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edGNN: a Simple and Powerful GNN for Directed Labeled Graphs

18 Apr 2019arXiv:1904.08745archive 2025-07-28

Guillaume Jaume, An-phi Nguyen, María Rodríguez Martínez, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Maria Gabrani

The ability of a graph neural network (GNN) to leverage both the graph topology and graph labels is fundamental to building discriminative node and graph embeddings. Building on previous work, we theoretically show that edGNN, our model for directed labeled graphs, is as powerful as the Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm for graph isomorphism. Our experiments support our theoretical findings, confirming that graph neural networks can be used effectively for inference problems on directed graphs with both node and edge labels. Code available at https://github.com/guillaumejaume/edGNN.

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Graph Classification MUTAG edGNN (max) Accuracy 88.8% #33 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification MUTAG edGNN (avg) Accuracy 86.9% #51 of 74 Archive leaderboard report

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