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Long Range Graph Benchmark
Vijay Prakash Dwivedi · Ladislav Rampášek · Michael Galkin · Ali Parviz · Guy Wolf · Anh Tuan Luu · Dominique Beaini

Thu Dec 01 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #1022
in Poster Session 6 »
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that are based on the message passing (MP) paradigm generally exchange information between 1-hop neighbors to build node representations at each layer. In principle, such networks are not able to capture long-range interactions (LRI) that may be desired or necessary for learning a given task on graphs. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in development of Transformer-based methods for graphs that can consider full node connectivity beyond the original sparse structure, thus enabling the modeling of LRI. However, MP-GNNs that simply rely on 1-hop message passing often fare better in several existing graph benchmarks when combined with positional feature representations, among other innovations, hence limiting the perceived utility and ranking of Transformer-like architectures. Here, we present the Long Range Graph Benchmark (LRGB) with 5 graph learning datasets: $\texttt{PascalVOC-SP}$, $\texttt{COCO-SP}$, $\texttt{PCQM-Contact}$, $\texttt{Peptides-func}$ and $\texttt{Peptides-struct}$ that arguably require LRI reasoning to achieve strong performance in a given task. We benchmark both baseline GNNs and Graph Transformer networks to verify that the models which capture long-range dependencies perform significantly better on these tasks. Therefore, these datasets are suitable for benchmarking and exploration of MP GNNs and Graph Transformer architectures that are intended to capture LRI.
Keywords: graph neural networks · graph transformers · long range dependencies · graph datasets · graph learning benchmark
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Author Information

Vijay Prakash Dwivedi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Ladislav Rampášek (Université de Montréal)
Michael Galkin (Mila, McGill University)
Ali Parviz (New Jersey Institute of technology)
Guy Wolf (Université de Montréal; Mila)
Anh Tuan Luu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Dominique Beaini (Polytechnique Montreal)

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