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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Overcoming Shortcut Learning in Graph Neural Networks through Active Explanation Guidance

Taraneh Younesian, Steve Azzolin, Antonio Longa +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can solve prediction tasks by unintentionally exploiting shortcuts---that is, edges, nodes, and features that correlate with but are not causal for the…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking GNNs and Missing Features: Challenges, Evaluation and a Robust Solution

Francesco Ferrini, Veronica Lachi, Antonio Longa +5

Handling missing node features is a key challenge for deploying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in real-world domains such as healthcare and sensor networks. Existing studies mostly a…

cs.LG2025

GNNs Meet Sequence Models Along the Shortest-Path: an Expressive Method for Link Prediction

Francesco Ferrini, Veronica Lachi, Antonio Longa +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle to capture the link-specific structural patterns crucial for accurate link prediction, as their node-centric message-passing schemes ove…

cs.LG2025

Bridging Theory and Practice in Link Representation with Graph Neural Networks

Veronica Lachi, Francesco Ferrini, Antonio Longa +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used to compute representations of node pairs for downstream tasks such as link prediction. Yet, theoretical understanding of their expressi…

cs.LG2025

A Self-Explainable Heterogeneous GNN for Relational Deep Learning

Francesco Ferrini, Antonio Longa, Andrea Passerini +1

Recently, significant attention has been given to the idea of viewing relational databases as heterogeneous graphs, enabling the application of graph neural network (GNN) technolog…