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Fanchen Bu

8 accepted papers

2025

DiffIM: Differentiable Influence Minimization with Surrogate Modeling and Continuous Relaxation

AAAI 2025technical

In social networks, people influence each other through social links, which can be represented as propagation among nodes in graphs. Influence minimization (IMIN) is the problem of manipulating the structures of an input graph (e.g., removing edges) to reduce the propagation among nodes. IMIN can re…

2025

Mitigating Over-Squashing in Graph Neural Networks by Spectrum-Preserving Sparsification

ICML 2025poster

The message-passing paradigm of Graph Neural Networks often struggles with exchanging information across distant nodes typically due to structural bottlenecks in certain graph regions, a limitation known as over-squashing. To reduce such bottlenecks, graph rewiring, which modifies graph topology, ha…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Feature Distribution on Graph Topology Mediates the Effect of Graph Convolution: Homophily Perspective

ICML 2024poster

How would randomly shuffling feature vectors among nodes from the same class affect graph neural networks (GNNs)? The feature shuffle, intuitively, perturbs the dependence between graph topology and features (A-X dependence) for GNNs to learn from. Surprisingly, we observe a consistent and significa…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

HypeBoy: Generative Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Hypergraphs

ICLR 2024poster

Hypergraphs are marked by complex topology, expressing higher-order interactions among multiple nodes with hyperedges, and better capturing the topology is essential for effective representation learning. Recent advances in generative self-supervised learning (SSL) suggest that hypergraph neural net…

2024

Rethinking Reconstruction-based Graph-Level Anomaly Detection: Limitations and a Simple Remedy

NeurIPS 2024poster

Graph autoencoders (Graph-AEs) learn representations of given graphs by aiming to accurately reconstruct them. A notable application of Graph-AEs is graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD), whose objective is to identify graphs with anomalous topological structures and/or node features compared to the…

2024

Tackling Prevalent Conditions in Unsupervised Combinatorial Optimization: Cardinality, Minimum, Covering, and More

ICML 2024poster

Combinatorial optimization (CO) is naturally discrete, making machine-learning techniques based on differentiable optimization inapplicable. Karalias & Loukas (2020) adapted the probabilistic method by Erdős & Spencer (1974), to incorporate CO into differentiable optimization. Their work ignited the…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Towards Deep Attention in Graph Neural Networks: Problems and Remedies

ICML 2023poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn the representation of graph-structured data, and their expressiveness can be further enhanced by inferring node relations for propagation. Attention-based GNNs infer neighbor importance to manipulate the weight of its propagation. Despite their popularity, the disc…

2022

Feedback Gradient Descent: Efficient and Stable Optimization with Orthogonality for DNNs

AAAI 2022technical

The optimization with orthogonality has been shown useful in training deep neural networks (DNNs). To impose orthogonality on DNNs, both computational efficiency and stability are important. However, existing methods utilizing Riemannian optimization or hard constraints can only ensure stability…