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BernNet: Learning Arbitrary Graph Spectral Filters via Bernstein Approximation
Mingguo He · Zhewei Wei · zengfeng Huang · Hongteng Xu

Thu Dec 09 12:30 AM -- 02:00 AM (PST) @
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Many representative graph neural networks, $e.g.$, GPR-GNN and ChebNet, approximate graph convolutions with graph spectral filters. However, existing work either applies predefined filter weights or learns them without necessary constraints, which may lead to oversimplified or ill-posed filters. To overcome these issues, we propose $\textit{BernNet}$, a novel graph neural network with theoretical support that provides a simple but effective scheme for designing and learning arbitrary graph spectral filters. In particular, for any filter over the normalized Laplacian spectrum of a graph, our BernNet estimates it by an order-$K$ Bernstein polynomial approximation and designs its spectral property by setting the coefficients of the Bernstein basis. Moreover, we can learn the coefficients (and the corresponding filter weights) based on observed graphs and their associated signals and thus achieve the BernNet specialized for the data. Our experiments demonstrate that BernNet can learn arbitrary spectral filters, including complicated band-rejection and comb filters, and it achieves superior performance in real-world graph modeling tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/ivam-he/BernNet.
Keywords: Deep Learning · Graph Learning

Author Information

Mingguo He (Renmin University of China)
Zhewei Wei (Renmin University of China)
zengfeng Huang (Fudan University)
Hongteng Xu (Infinia ML and Duke University)

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