Joint Graph Rewiring and Feature Denoising via Spectral Resonance

Published: 22 Jan 2025, Last Modified: 28 Feb 2025ICLR 2025 OralEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: GNNs, Rewiring, Denoising, Spectral Resonance, cSBM
TL;DR: We introduce joint denoising and rewiring (JDR)—an algorithm to jointly rewire the graph and denoise the features, which improves the performance of downstream node classification GNNs.
Abstract: When learning from graph data, the graph and the node features both give noisy information about the node labels. In this paper we propose an algorithm to **j**ointly **d**enoise the features and **r**ewire the graph (JDR), which improves the performance of downstream node classification graph neural nets (GNNs). JDR works by aligning the leading spectral spaces of graph and feature matrices. It approximately solves the associated non-convex optimization problem in a way that handles graphs with multiple classes and different levels of homophily or heterophily. We theoretically justify JDR in a stylized setting and show that it consistently outperforms existing rewiring methods on a wide range of synthetic and real-world node classification tasks.
Primary Area: learning on graphs and other geometries & topologies
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