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SIGN: Scalable Inception Graph Neural Networks

23 Apr 2020arXiv:2004.11198archive 2025-07-28

Fabrizio Frasca, Emanuele Rossi, Davide Eynard, Ben Chamberlain, Michael Bronstein, Federico Monti

Graph representation learning has recently been applied to a broad spectrum of problems ranging from computer graphics and chemistry to high energy physics and social media. The popularity of graph neural networks has sparked interest, both in academia and in industry, in developing methods that scale to very large graphs such as Facebook or Twitter social networks. In most of these approaches, the computational cost is alleviated by a sampling strategy retaining a subset of node neighbors or subgraphs at training time. In this paper we propose a new, efficient and scalable graph deep learning architecture which sidesteps the need for graph sampling by using graph convolutional filters of different size that are amenable to efficient precomputation, allowing extremely fast training and inference. Our architecture allows using different local graph operators (e.g. motif-induced adjacency matrices or Personalized Page Rank diffusion matrix) to best suit the task at hand. We conduct extensive experimental evaluation on various open benchmarks and show that our approach is competitive with other state-of-the-art architectures, while requiring a fraction of the training and inference time. Moreover, we obtain state-of-the-art results on ogbn-papers100M, the largest public graph dataset, with over 110 million nodes and 1.5 billion edges.

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Graph Representation LearningGraph SamplingNode ClassificationNode Property PredictionRepresentation Learning

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Node Classification AMZ Comp SIGN Accuracy 85.93 ± 1.21 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Node Classification AMZ Photo SIGN Accuracy 91.72 ± 1.20 #13 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Node Classification Coauthor CS SIGN Accuracy 91.98 ± 0.50 #20 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Node Classification PPI SIGN F1 96.50 #17 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Node Classification Reddit SIGN Accuracy 96.60% #8 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-arxiv SIGN Ext. data No #72 of 86 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-arxiv SIGN Number of params 3566128 #72 of 86 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-arxiv SIGN Test Accuracy 0.7195 ± 0.0011 #72 of 86 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-arxiv SIGN Validation Accuracy 0.7323 ± 0.0006 #72 of 86 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-mag SIGN Ext. data No #33 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-mag SIGN Number of params 3724645 #33 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-mag SIGN Test Accuracy 0.4046 ± 0.0012 #33 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-mag SIGN Validation Accuracy 0.4068 ± 0.0010 #33 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN-XL Ext. data No #15 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN-XL Number of params 7180460 #15 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN-XL Test Accuracy 0.6606 ± 0.0019 #15 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN-XL Validation Accuracy 0.6984 ± 0.0006 #15 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN Ext. data No #17 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN Number of params 1008812 #17 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN Test Accuracy 0.6568 ± 0.0006 #17 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-papers100M SIGN Validation Accuracy 0.6932 ± 0.0006 #17 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-products SIGN Ext. data No #43 of 64 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-products SIGN Number of params 3483703 #43 of 64 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-products SIGN Test Accuracy 0.8052 ± 0.0016 #43 of 64 Archive leaderboard report
Node Property Prediction ogbn-products SIGN Validation Accuracy 0.9299 ± 0.0004 #43 of 64 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 ConvolutionConvolutionInception ModuleMax Pooling

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