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Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Graphs

17 May 2016arXiv:1605.05273archive 2025-07-28

Mathias Niepert, Mohamed Ahmed, Konstantin Kutzkov

Numerous important problems can be framed as learning from graph data. We propose a framework for learning convolutional neural networks for arbitrary graphs. These graphs may be undirected, directed, and with both discrete and continuous node and edge attributes. Analogous to image-based convolutional networks that operate on locally connected regions of the input, we present a general approach to extracting locally connected regions from graphs. Using established benchmark data sets, we demonstrate that the learned feature representations are competitive with state of the art graph kernels and that their computation is highly efficient.

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Graph Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Graph Classification COX2 PSCN Accuracy(10-fold) 75.21 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification D&D PSCN Accuracy 76.27% #38 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-B PSCN Accuracy 71.00% #44 of 51 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification MUTAG PATCHY-SAN Accuracy 92.63% #12 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification MUTAG PSCN Accuracy 88.95% #31 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification NCI1 PSCN Accuracy 76.34% #48 of 69 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification PTC PATCHY-SAN Accuracy 60.00% #34 of 37 Archive leaderboard report

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