57 accepted papers
Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) aim to learn universal patterns through large-scale pretraining on diverse graphs and generalize to open-world scenarios. While GFMs have garnered significant attention, existing works primarily focus on sigle-modal graphs. However, many real-world graphs are multimoda…
Inspired by natural language processing prompt learning, recent heterogeneous graph prompt-tuning methods have been developed to better align pre-trained models with downstream tasks. However, existing heterogeneous prompt methods primarily focus on holistic framework design, causing prompts to heav
Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) is crucial for real-world applications, as it enables effective modeling of both rich node semantics and complex graph structure. Nevertheless, this task is intrinsically challenging due to structural–semantic mismatch stemming from divergent …
Heterogeneous Graph Prompt Learning (HGPL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for bridging the gap between the objectives of pre-training foundation models and their downstream applications in heterogeneous graph settings. However, existing HGPL methods are primarily designed for in-domain scenario
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where models behave normally on clean data but exhibit targeted misclassifications once specific triggers are activated. Existing backdoor attacks on GNNs mainly focus on enhancing trigger stealthiness or diversifying attack paradigms.
Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for graph representation learning, leveraging attention mechanisms to enable flexible information exchange. Recent GTs often adopt local attention to restrict computation to neighborhoods, thereby reducing costs and enhancing scalability.
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a dominant modeling paradigm for graph-structured data, and the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has spurred growing interest in integrating external semantic knowledge into GNNs. Current LLM-based GNNs are devoted to extracting semantically similar
Graph Prompt Learning (GPL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for downstream adaptation of pre-trained graph models, mitigating the misalignment between pre-training objectives and downstream tasks. Recently, the focus of GPL has shifted from in-domain to cross-domain scenarios, which is …
Universal graph pre-training has emerged as a key paradigm in graph representation learning, offering a promising way to train encoders to learn transferable representations from unlabeled graphs and to effectively generalize across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, recent explorations in u
Heterogeneous graphs are widely used to model real-world systems with diverse entity types and relational structures, and existing methods have shown promising performance in various applications. However, most current models assume balanced and semantically aligned features across nodes, which rare
Graph self-supervised learning aims to mine intrinsic signals from graph data itself to train models. It enables the acquisition of high-quality representations without manual annotations, making it suitable for various label-scarce scenarios and thus garnering substantial interest. Existing graph s
Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), which trains graph encoders by maximizing similarity between positive samples and minimizing it between negative ones, has emerged as a mainstream graph pre-training paradigm. It is widely recognized that positive samples are essential in GCLs. Ideally, maximizing t…
Real-world heterogeneous data is commonly modeled as heterogeneous information networks (HINs). Building upon advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs), existing research has significantly progressed in semi-supervised and self-supervised paradigms for heterogeneous GNNs (HGNNs). However, these m
With the growing complexity of online information, trustworthy fake news detection has become increasingly critical. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a strong ability to leverage factual evidence for verification, they remain highly vulnerable to unreliable, noisy, or scarce evidence, u
As the Internet and social media evolve rapidly, distinguishing credible news from a vast amount of complex information poses a significant challenge. Due to the suddenness and instability of news events, the authenticity labels of news can potentially shift as events develop, making it crucial for
Temporal interaction graphs (TIGs), defined by sequences of timestamped interaction events, have become ubiquitous in real-world applications due to their capability to model complex dynamic system behaviors. As a result, temporal interaction graph representation learning (TIGRL) has garnered signif
Session-based Recommendation (SBR) aims to predict users’ next interaction based on their current session without relying on long-term profiles. Despite its effectiveness in privacy-preserving and real-time scenarios, SBR remains challenging due to limited behavioral signals. Prior methods often ove
Rumor detection is critical as the spread of misinformation on social media threatens social stability. The propagation structure has garnered attention for its ability to capture discriminative information, such as crowd stance, which has led to the development of enhanced detection methods. Howeve…
Interactive Recommendation (IR) has gained significant attention recently for its capability to quickly capture dynamic interest and optimize both short and long term objectives. IR agents are typically implemented through Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), because DRL is inherently compatible with…
Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) aims to self-supervised learn low-dimensional graph representations, primarily through instance discrimination, which involves manually mining positive and negative pairs from graphs, increasing the similarity of positive pairs while decreasing negative pairs. Drawin…
Fraud detection that aims to discern frauds from the majority of benigns has become an increasingly prominent research field. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in graph-based fraud detection due to their outstanding data analysis and mining capabilities. However, owing…
The k-core has garnered significant attention in recent research as an effective measure of node importance within a graph. A k-core is defined as the maximal induced subgraph where each node has a degree of at least k. This paper addresses the core maximization problem: given a graph G, an integer
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) stands as a critical research frontier, seeking to comprehensively unravel human emotions by amalgamating text, audio, and visual data. Yet, discerning subtle emotional nuances within audio and video expressions poses a formidable challenge, particularly when emot…
Defending against adversarial attacks on graphs has become increasingly important. Graph refinement to enhance the quality and robustness of representation learning is a critical area that requires thorough investigation. We observe that representations learned from attacked graphs are often ineffec
The cold-start recommendation has been challenging due to the limited historical interactions for new users and new items. Recently, methods based on meta-learning and graph neural networks have been effective in this problem. However, these methods mainly focus on the missing user-item interactions…
The challenges tied to unstructured graph data are manifold, primarily falling into node, edge, and graph-level problem categories. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) serve as effective tools to tackle these issues. However, individual tasks often demand distinct model architectures, and training these mo…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently achieved significant success in several graph-related tasks. However, traditional GNNs and their variants are constantly limited by the implicit homophily, assuming neighboring nodes belong to the same class. This results in weak performance on heterophilic…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing defenses primarily rely on detecting structural anomalies, distributional outliers, or perturbation-induced prediction instability, which struggle to handle the more subtle, feature-based attacks that do not introduce obvious…
Graph Prompt Learning (GPL) has emerged as a promising paradigm that bridges graph pretraining models and downstream scenarios, mitigating label dependency and the misalignment between upstream pretraining and downstream tasks. Although existing GPL studies explore various prompt strategies, their e…
Graph anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in graph-based data, with wide applications in fields such as web security and financial fraud detection. Existing methods typically rely on contrastive learning, assuming that a lower similarity between a node and its local subgraph indicate
Graph recommendation systems have been widely studied due to their ability to effectively capture the complex interactions between users and items. However, these systems also exhibit certain vulnerabilities when faced with attacks. The prevailing shilling attack methods typically manipulate recomme
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated strong performance across tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and graph classification, but remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks that implant imperceptible triggers during training to control predictions. While node-level attacks exploi…
Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are structured data presented as directed graphs. Due to the common issues of incompleteness and inaccuracy encountered during construction and maintenance, completing KGs becomes a critical task. Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) excels at inferring patterns or model…
Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has attracted considerable attention because it can self-supervisedly extract low-dimensional representation of graph data. InfoNCE-based loss function is widely used in graph contrastive learning, which pulls the representations of positive pairs close to each other…
Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful approach for generating graph representations without the need for manual annotation. Most advanced GCL methods fall into three main frameworks: node discrimination, group discrimination, and bootstrapping schemes, all of which achieve compa…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), known for their effective graph encoding, are extensively used across various fields. Graph self-supervised pre-training, which trains GNN encoders without manual labels to generate high-quality graph representations, has garnered widespread attention. However, due to t…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have found widespread application in modeling graph data across diverse domains. While GNNs excel in scenarios where the testing data shares the distribution of their training counterparts (in distribution, ID), they often exhibit incorrect predictions when confronted wi…
Graph neural networks have been demonstrated to be effective analytic apparatus for mining network data. Most real-world networks are inherently hierarchical, offering unique opportunities to acquire latent, intrinsic network organizational properties by utilizing network taxonomies. The existing ap…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received widespread attention and applications due to their excellent performance in graph representation learning. Most existing GNNs can only aggregate 1-hop neighbors in a GNN layer, so they usually stack multiple GNN layers to obtain more information from larger…
In the realm of cross-network tasks, graph domain adaptation is an effective tool due to its ability to transfer abundant labels from nodes in the source domain to those in the target domain. Existing adversarial domain adaptation methods mainly focus on domain-wise alignment. These approaches, whil…
Most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are based on the homophily assumption, where nodes with the same labels or similar features tend to be connected to each other. However, real-world graphs often do not adhere to this homophily assumption. Currently, most researches aggregate multi-hop neighbor infor…
With the advancement of the internet, sarcastic sentiment expression on social media has grown increasingly diverse. Consequently, multimodal sarcasm detection has emerged as a valuable tool for users to comprehend and interpret sarcastic expressions. Previous research suggests that effectively inte…
In real-world scenarios, networks (graphs) and their tasks possess unique characteristics, requiring the development of a versatile graph augmentation (GA) to meet the varied demands of network analysis. Unfortunately, most Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) frameworks are hampered by the specificity,…
In the current Internet landscape, the rampant spread of fake news, particularly in the form of multi-modal content, poses a great social threat. While automatic multi-modal fake news detection methods have shown promising results, the lack of explainability remains a significant challenge. Existing…
Recently, the wanton dissemination of fake news on social media has adversely affected our lives, rendering automatic fake news detection a pressing issue. Current methods are often fully supervised and typically employ deep neural networks (DNN) to learn implicit relevance from labeled data, ignori…
Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently enjoyed great success as an efficient self-supervised representation learning approach. However, the existing methods have focused on designing of contrastive modes and used data augmentation with a rigid and inefficient one-to-one sampling strategy. We…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been a prevailing technique for tackling various analysis tasks on graph data. A key premise for the remarkable performance of GNNs relies on complete and trustworthy initial graph descriptions (i.e., node features and graph structure), which is often not satisfied…
Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has shown remarkable potential of exploring graph representation. However, the GCN aggregating mechanism fails to generalize to networks with heterophily where most nodes have neighbors from different classes, which commonly exists in real-world networks. In order t…
To alleviate the unfavorable effect of noisy topology in Graph Neural networks (GNNs), some efforts perform the local topology refinement through the pairwise propagation weight learning and the multi-channel extension. Unfortunately, most of them suffer a common and fatal drawback: irrelevant propa…
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely applied in various fields due to their significant power on processing graph-structured data. Typical GCN and its variants work under a homophily assumption (i.e., nodes with same class are prone to connect to each other), while ignoring the heter…
Graph-Convolution-based methods have been successfully applied to representation learning on homophily graphs where nodes with the same label or similar attributes tend to connect with one another. Due to the homophily assumption of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) that these methods use, they ar…
By interpreting Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as the message passing from the spatial perspective, their success is attributed to Laplacian smoothing. However, it also leads to serious over-smoothing issue by stacking many layers. Recently, many efforts have been paid to overcome this issue in semi-s…
The current state-of-the-art model HiAGM for hierarchical text classification has two limitations. First, it correlates each text sample with all labels in the dataset which contains irrelevant information. Second, it does not consider any statistical constraint on the label representations learned…
The vast majority of community detection algorithms assume that the networks are totally observed. However, in reality many networks cannot be fully observed. On such network is edges-missing network, where some relationships (edges) between two entities are missing. Recently, several works have bee…
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), aiming to obtain the representation of a node by aggregating its neighbors, have demonstrated great power in tackling various analytics tasks on graph (network) data. The remarkable performance of GCNs typically relies on the homophily assumption of networks, whi…
Network embedding which is to learn a low dimensional representation of nodes in a network has been used in many network analysis tasks. Some network embedding methods, including those based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) (a promising deep learning technique), have been proposed recently.…
Community detection, aiming at partitioning a network into multiple substructures, is practically importance. Graph convolutional network (GCN), a new deep-learning technique, has recently been developed for community detection. Markov Random Fields (MRF) has been combined with GCN in the MRFasGCN m…