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20162026
most citedBrain Networks and Intelligence: A Graph Neural Network Based Approach to Resting State fMRI Data

38 citations · 82 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

Cross-attentive Cohesive Subgraph Embedding to Mitigate Oversquashing in GNNs

Tanvir Hossain, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Lilia Chebbah +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved strong performance across various real-world domains. Nevertheless, they suffer from oversquashing, where long-range information is disto…

cs.LG2025

HyperGCL: Multi-Modal Graph Contrastive Learning via Learnable Hypergraph Views

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Shihao Ji, Esra Akbas

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations…

cs.LG2025

Self-Clustering Graph Transformer Approach to Model Resting-State Functional Brain Activity

Bishal Thapaliya, Esra Akbas, Ram Sapkota +3

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) offers valuable insights into the human brain's functional organization and is a powerful tool for investigating the r…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Tackling Oversmoothing in GNN via Graph Sparsification: A Truss-based Approach

Tanvir Hossain, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam +2

Graph Neural Network (GNN) achieves great success for node-level and graph-level tasks via encoding meaningful topological structures of networks in various domains, ranging from s…

q-bio.NC2024★ 29 cited

DSAM: A Deep Learning Framework for Analyzing Temporal and Spatial Dynamics in Brain Networks

Bishal Thapaliya, Robyn Miller, Jiayu Chen +8

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a noninvasive technique pivotal for understanding human neural mechanisms of intricate cognitive processes. Most rs…

cs.SI2024

DyGCL: Dynamic Graph Contrastive Learning For Event Prediction

Muhammed Ifte Khairul Islam, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Tanvir Hossain +1

Predicting events such as political protests, flu epidemics, and criminal activities is crucial to proactively taking necessary measures and implementing required responses to addr…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

HeTriNet: Heterogeneous Graph Triplet Attention Network for Drug-Target-Disease Interaction

Farhan Tanvir, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Tanvir Hossain +2

Modeling the interactions between drugs, targets, and diseases is paramount in drug discovery and has significant implications for precision medicine and personalized treatments. C…

cs.LG2023★ 38 cited

Brain Networks and Intelligence: A Graph Neural Network Based Approach to Resting State fMRI Data

Bishal Thapaliya, Esra Akbas, Jiayu Chen +5

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) is a powerful tool for investigating the relationship between brain function and cognitive processes as it allows for t…

cs.LG2023

Topology-guided Hypergraph Transformer Network: Unveiling Structural Insights for Improved Representation

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas

Hypergraphs, with their capacity to depict high-order relationships, have emerged as a significant extension of traditional graphs. Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have remar…

math.AT2023★ 1 cited

Hypergraph Classification via Persistent Homology

Mehmet Emin Aktas, Thu Nguyen, Rakin Riza +2

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applic…

cs.LG2023

MPool: Motif-Based Graph Pooling

Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Max Khanov, Esra Akbas

Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have recently become a powerful technique for many graph-related tasks including graph classification. Current GNN models apply different graph pooling…

cs.LG2023

Seq-HyGAN: Sequence Classification via Hypergraph Attention Network

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Corey May, Farhan Tanvir +2

Sequence classification has a wide range of real-world applications in different domains, such as genome classification in health and anomaly detection in business. However, the la…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

DDI Prediction via Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks

Farhan Tanvir, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Esra Akbas

Polypharmacy, defined as the use of multiple drugs together, is a standard treatment method, especially for severe and chronic diseases. However, using multiple drugs together may…

q-bio.QM2022★ 3 cited

HyGNN: Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction via Hypergraph Neural Network

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Briana Bumgardner, Farhan Tanvir +1

Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) may hamper the functionalities of drugs, and in the worst scenario, they may lead to adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Predicting all DDIs is a challengi…

cs.SI2022

Liars are more influential: Effect of Deception in Influence Maximization on Social Networks

Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas, Ashley Hahn

Detecting influential users, called the influence maximization problem on social networks, is an important graph mining problem with many diverse applications such as information p…

cs.SI2021

Identifying critical higher-order interactions in complex networks

Mehmet Emin Aktas, Thu Nguyen, Sidra Jawaid +2

Information diffusion on networks is an important concept in network science observed in many situations such as information spreading and rumor controlling in social networks, dis…

cs.SI2021

Hypergraph Laplacians in Diffusion Framework

Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas

Networks are important structures used to model complex systems where interactions take place. In a basic network model, entities are represented as nodes, and interaction and rela…

cs.SI2020

Graph Classification via Heat Diffusion on Simplicial Complexes

Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas

In this paper, we study the graph classification problem in vertex-labeled graphs. Our main goal is to classify the graphs comparing their higher-order structures thanks to heat di…

math.AT2019

Persistence Homology of Networks: Methods and Applications

Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas, Ahmed El Fatmaoui

Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological netwo…

cs.SI2019

Network Embedding: on Compression and Learning

Esra Akbas, Mehmet Aktas

Recently, network embedding that encodes structural information of graphs into a vector space has become popular for network analysis. Although recent methods show promising perfor…

math.AT2016

Computing the Braid Monodromy of Completely Reducible -gonal Curves

Mehmet Aktas, Esra Akbas

Braid monodromy is an important tool for computing invariants of curves and surfaces. In this paper, the \emph{rectangular braid diagram (RBD)} method is proposed to compute the br…