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Graph neural networks: A review of methods and applications

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Zhou, Jie, Cui, Ganqu, Hu, Shengding, Zhang, Zhengyan, Yang, Cheng, Liu, Zhiyuan, Wang, Lifeng, Li, Changcheng +1 more·2020·AI Open

Abstract

Lots of learning tasks require dealing with graph data which contains rich relation information among elements. Modeling physics systems, learning molecular fingerprints, predicting protein interface, and classifying diseases demand a model to learn from graph inputs. In other domains such as learning from non-structural data like texts and images, reasoning on extracted structures (like the dependency trees of sentences and the scene graphs of images) is an important research topic which also needs graph reasoning models. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are neural models that capture the dependence of graphs via message passing between the nodes of graphs. In recent years, variants of GNNs such as graph convolutional network (GCN), graph attention network (GAT), graph recurrent network (GRN) have demonstrated ground-breaking performances on many deep learning tasks. In this survey, we propose a general design pipeline for GNN models and discuss the variants of each component, systematically categorize the applications, and propose four open problems for future research.

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Authors
Zhou, J., Cui, G., Hu, S., Zhang, Z., Yang, C., Liu, Z., Wang, L., Li, C., & Sun, M.
Affiliations
  • Tsinghua University (CN)
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN)
  • Tencent (China) (CN)
Corresponding author
Liu, Zhiyuan
Venue
AI Open
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020
Volume
1
Pages
57-81
ISSN
2666-6510 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3152893301
Cited by
6,880
References
311
Citations by year
2026: 960 · 2025: 1372 · 2024: 1378 · 2023: 1123 · 2022: 872 · 2021: 702 · 2020: 363 · 2019: 108 · 2018: 2
FWCI
300.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • AI Open (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Keywords
graph neural networks, graph convolutional networks, graph attention networks, message passing, graph reasoning, molecular fingerprints, protein interface prediction, disease classification, dependency trees, scene graph

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