On the Expressive Power of Spectral Invariant Graph Neural Networks

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: On the Expressive Power of Spectral Invariant Graph Neural Networks
المؤلفون: Zhang, Bohang, Zhao, Lingxiao, Maron, Haggai
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Mathematics - Spectral Theory
الوصف: Incorporating spectral information to enhance Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has shown promising results but raises a fundamental challenge due to the inherent ambiguity of eigenvectors. Various architectures have been proposed to address this ambiguity, referred to as spectral invariant architectures. Notable examples include GNNs and Graph Transformers that use spectral distances, spectral projection matrices, or other invariant spectral features. However, the potential expressive power of these spectral invariant architectures remains largely unclear. The goal of this work is to gain a deep theoretical understanding of the expressive power obtainable when using spectral features. We first introduce a unified message-passing framework for designing spectral invariant GNNs, called Eigenspace Projection GNN (EPNN). A comprehensive analysis shows that EPNN essentially unifies all prior spectral invariant architectures, in that they are either strictly less expressive or equivalent to EPNN. A fine-grained expressiveness hierarchy among different architectures is also established. On the other hand, we prove that EPNN itself is bounded by a recently proposed class of Subgraph GNNs, implying that all these spectral invariant architectures are strictly less expressive than 3-WL. Finally, we discuss whether using spectral features can gain additional expressiveness when combined with more expressive GNNs.
Comment: 31 pages; 3 figures; to appear in ICML 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04336
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.04336
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv