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Graph Neural Network (Network Analysis)

A Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a deep learning architecture that operates directly on graph-structured data by combining node features with structural information through iterative neighborhood message passing. The three canonical variants — the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) introduced by Kipf and Welling in 2017, the Graph Attention Network (GAT) introduced by Veličković et al. in 2018, and GraphSAGE — differ in how they aggregate neighbor information: GCN applies a spectral convolution over the full adjacency, GAT weights neighbors by learned attention scores, and GraphSAGE samples and aggregates local neighborhoods inductively, enabling generalization to unseen nodes.

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Graph Neural Network (GCN / GAT / GraphSAGE)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / network-analysis
  • Kipf, T.N. & Welling, M. (2017). Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). · DOI 10.48550/arXiv.1609.02907
  • Veličković, P., Cucurull, G., Casanova, A., Romero, A., Liò, P., & Bengio, Y. (2018). Graph Attention Networks. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). · DOI 10.48550/arXiv.1710.10903
  • Hamilton, W.L. (2020). Graph Representation Learning. Morgan & Claypool. · DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-01588-5
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