Polynormer: Polynomial-Expressive Graph Transformer in Linear Time
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Keywords: Graph Transformers, Polynomial Networks, Large-Scale Graph Learning, Node Classification
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TL;DR: A linear graph transformer that performs well on homo/heterophilic graphs by learning high-degree equivariant polynomials.
Abstract: Graph transformers (GTs) have emerged as a promising architecture that is theoretically more expressive than message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs). However, typical GT models have at least quadratic complexity and thus cannot scale to large graphs. While there are several linear GTs recently proposed, they still lag behind GNN counterparts on several popular graph datasets, which poses a critical concern on their practical expressivity. To balance the trade-off between expressivity and scalability of GTs, we propose Polynormer, a polynomial-expressive GT model with linear complexity. Polynormer is built upon a novel base model that learns a high-degree polynomial on input features. To enable the base model permutation equivariant, we integrate it with graph topology and node features separately, resulting in local and global equivariant attention models. Consequently, Polynormer adopts a linear local-to-global attention scheme to learn high-degree equivariant polynomials whose coefficients are controlled by attention scores. Polynormer has been evaluated on $13$ homophilic and heterophilic datasets, including large graphs with millions of nodes. Our extensive experiment results show that Polynormer outperforms state-of-the-art GNN and GT baselines on most datasets, even without the use of nonlinear activation functions. Source code of Polynormer is freely available at: [github.com/cornell-zhang/Polynormer](https://github.com/cornell-zhang/Polynormer).
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Primary Area: unsupervised, self-supervised, semi-supervised, and supervised representation learning
Submission Number: 3033
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