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cs.LG2026

Threshold Differential Attention for Sink-Free, Ultra-Sparse, and Non-Dispersive Language Modeling

Xingyue Huang, Xueying Ding, Mingxuan Ju +3

Softmax attention struggles with long contexts due to structural limitations: the strict sum-to-one constraint forces attention sinks on irrelevant tokens, and probability mass dis…

cs.LG2025

GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at Snapchat

Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Matthew Kolodner +12

Recent advances in graph machine learning (ML) with the introduction of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have led to a widespread interest in applying these approaches to business appl…

cs.LG2024

Node Duplication Improves Cold-start Link Prediction

Zhichun Guo, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu +5

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are prominent in graph machine learning and have shown state-of-the-art performance in Link Prediction (LP) tasks. Nonetheless, recent studies show tha…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Graph Transformers for Large Graphs

Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Yozen Liu, Anh Tuan Luu +3

Transformers have recently emerged as powerful neural networks for graph learning, showcasing state-of-the-art performance on several graph property prediction tasks. However, thes…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Context-Aware Prediction of User Engagement on Online Social Platforms

Heinrich Peters, Yozen Liu, Francesco Barbieri +3

The success of online social platforms hinges on their ability to predict and understand user behavior at scale. Here, we present data suggesting that context-aware modeling approa…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

CARL-G: Clustering-Accelerated Representation Learning on Graphs

William Shiao, Uday Singh Saini, Yozen Liu +3

Self-supervised learning on graphs has made large strides in achieving great performance in various downstream tasks. However, many state-of-the-art methods suffer from a number of…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Link Prediction with Non-Contrastive Learning

William Shiao, Zhichun Guo, Tong Zhao +3

A recent focal area in the space of graph neural networks (GNNs) is graph self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to derive useful node representations without labeled data. Not…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation

Zhichun Guo, William Shiao, Shichang Zhang +4

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown exceptional performance in the task of link prediction. Despite their effectiveness, the high latency brought by non-trivial neighborhood da…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

Empowering Graph Representation Learning with Test-Time Graph Transformation

Wei Jin, Tong Zhao, Jiayuan Ding +3

As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have facilitated various applications from drug discovery to recommender systems. Nevertheless…

cs.LG2022★ 12 cited

MLPInit: Embarrassingly Simple GNN Training Acceleration with MLP Initialization

Xiaotian Han, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu +2

Training graph neural networks (GNNs) on large graphs is complex and extremely time consuming. This is attributed to overheads caused by sparse matrix multiplication, which are sid…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

GStarX: Explaining Graph Neural Networks with Structure-Aware Cooperative Games

Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah +1

Explaining machine learning models is an important and increasingly popular area of research interest. The Shapley value from game theory has been proposed as a prime approach to c…

cs.LG2021★ 43 cited

Graph-less Neural Networks: Teaching Old MLPs New Tricks via Distillation

Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Yizhou Sun +1

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular for graph machine learning and have shown great results on wide node classification tasks. Yet, they are less popular for practical deploym…

cs.LG2021★ 20 cited

Graph Condensation for Graph Neural Networks

Wei Jin, Lingxiao Zhao, Shichang Zhang +3

Given the prevalence of large-scale graphs in real-world applications, the storage and time for training neural models have raised increasing concerns. To alleviate the concerns, w…

cs.LG2020

A Unified View on Graph Neural Networks as Graph Signal Denoising

Yao Ma, Xiaorui Liu, Tong Zhao +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have risen to prominence in learning representations for graph structured data. A single GNN layer typically consists of a feature transformation and a…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Data Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks

Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Leonardo Neves +3

Data augmentation has been widely used to improve generalizability of machine learning models. However, comparatively little work studies data augmentation for graphs. This is larg…

cs.LG2019★ 4 cited

Characterizing and Forecasting User Engagement with In-app Action Graph: A Case Study of Snapchat

Yozen Liu, Xiaolin Shi, Lucas Pierce +1

While mobile social apps have become increasingly important in people's daily life, we have limited understanding on what motivates users to engage with these apps. In this paper,…