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Universal Graph Transformer Self-Attention Networks

26 Sep 2019arXiv:1909.11855archive 2025-07-28

Dai Quoc Nguyen, Tu Dinh Nguyen, Dinh Phung

The transformer self-attention network has been extensively used in research domains such as computer vision, image processing, and natural language processing. But it has not been actively used in graph neural networks (GNNs) where constructing an advanced aggregation function is essential. To this end, we present U2GNN, an effective GNN model leveraging a transformer self-attention mechanism followed by a recurrent transition, to induce a powerful aggregation function to learn graph representations. Experimental results show that the proposed U2GNN achieves state-of-the-art accuracies on well-known benchmark datasets for graph classification. Our code is available at: https://github.com/daiquocnguyen/Graph-Transformer

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General ClassificationGraph ClassificationGraph EmbeddingGraph Representation Learning

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Graph Classification COLLAB U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 95.62% #1 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification COLLAB U2GNN Accuracy 77.84% #20 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification D&D U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 95.67% #1 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification D&D U2GNN Accuracy 80.23% #14 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-B U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 96.41% #1 of 51 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-B U2GNN Accuracy 77.04% #17 of 51 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-M U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 89.2% #1 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-M U2GNN Accuracy 53.60% #9 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification MUTAG U2GNN Accuracy 89.97% #25 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification MUTAG U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 88.47% #37 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification PROTEINS U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 80.01% #12 of 103 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification PROTEINS U2GNN Accuracy 78.53% #18 of 103 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification PTC U2GNN (Unsupervised) Accuracy 91.81% #1 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification PTC U2GNN Accuracy 69.63% #13 of 37 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

Absolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerReLUResidual ConnectionSoftmaxTransformer

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