Quadratic GCN for graph classification
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been extensively used to classify nodes in graphs and have been shown to outperform most other node classification methods. However, there are currently few GCN based formalism for graph classification tasks. In this task, graphs of different sizes (e.g. graphs representing different protein structures) belong to different classes, and one attempts to predict the graph class. We here propose a solution combing GCN and methods from knowledge graphs to produce a quadratic GCN (Q-GCN). We extend the GCN formalism by adding a quadratic layer to a standard GCN to classify full graphs. Such a layer produces an output with dimensions independent of the graph node number. This output is then passed through a softmax to classify full graphs. We applied this method to a wide range of graph classification problems and show that such a straightforward formalism outperforms state of the art methods for binary graph classification with or without external input on each graph.
Summary This paper combine GCN with KG methods (quadratic kernel) to predict the class of graph-structured data, e.g. protein structures, chemical compounds, etc. Strength The paper proposes an extension of GCN for graph classification, which is an interesting problem. Weakness The use of GCN for graph classification isn’t well motivated. GCN works well for node classification which is a lot different from graph classification and the paper failed to point out why GCN should help? Paragraph 4 of section 2 provides some previous works that also extend GCN for graph classification but still, the motivation of this work should be clearly stated in the introduction. Furthermore, what’s the intuition for using the quadratic layer? How is it better than DIFFPOOL? Regarding the experimental results, it would be better to provide more convincing evidence as well as more information about the datasets being used, e.g., size, number of classes. Also, it isn’t clear if the results in table 1 are binary or multi-class? The paper somewhat readable, but need serious revision of the flow as well as figures, result tables, etc. For example, it’s not necessary to use up entire of page 4 for figure 1 (which also doesn’t provide much information) Overall impression suggests that the paper wasn’t completed and should be carefully revised before submitting to another conference.
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Quadratic GCN for graph classification
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been extensively used to classify nodes in graphs and have been shown to outperform most other node classification methods. However, there are currently few GCN based formalism for graph classification tasks. In this task, graphs of different sizes (e.g. graphs representing different protein structures) belong to different classes, and one attempts to predict the graph class. We here propose a solution combing GCN and methods from knowledge graphs to produce a quadratic GCN (Q-GCN). We extend the GCN formalism by adding a quadratic layer to a standard GCN to classify full graphs. Such a layer produces an output with dimensions independent of the graph node number. This output is then passed through a softmax to classify full graphs. We applied this method to a wide range of graph classification problems and show that such a straightforward formalism outperforms state of the art methods for binary graph classification with or without external input on each graph.
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Summary This paper combine GCN with KG methods (quadratic kernel) to predict the class of graph-structured data, e.g. protein structures, chemical compounds, etc. Strength The paper proposes an extension of GCN for graph classification, which is an interesting problem. Weakness The use of GCN for graph classification isn’t well motivated. GCN works well for node classification which is a lot different from graph classification and the paper failed to point out why GCN should help? Paragraph 4 of section 2 provides some previous works that also extend GCN for graph classification but still, the motivation of this work should be clearly stated in the introduction. Furthermore, what’s the intuition for using the quadratic layer? How is it better than DIFFPOOL? Regarding the experimental results, it would be better to provide more convincing evidence as well as more information about the datasets being used, e.g., size, number of classes. Also, it isn’t clear if the results in table 1 are binary or multi-class? The paper somewhat readable, but need serious revision of the flow as well as figures, result tables, etc. For example, it’s not necessary to use up entire of page 4 for figure 1 (which also doesn’t provide much information) Overall impression suggests that the paper wasn’t completed and should be carefully revised before submitting to another conference.
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Summary This paper combine GCN with KG methods (quadratic kernel) to predict the class of graph-structured data, e.g. protein structures, chemical compounds, etc. Strength The paper proposes an extension of GCN for graph classification, which is an interesting problem. Weakness The use of GCN for graph classification isn’t well motivated. GCN works well for node classification which is a lot different from graph classification and the paper failed to point out why GCN should help? Paragraph 4 of section 2 provides some previous works that also extend GCN for graph classification but still, the motivation of this work should be clearly stated in the introduction. Furthermore, what’s the intuition for using the quadratic layer? How is it better than DIFFPOOL? Regarding the experimental results, it would be better to provide more convincing evidence as well as more information about the datasets being used, e.g., size, number of classes. Also, it isn’t clear if the results in table 1 are binary or multi-class? The paper somewhat readable, but need serious revision of the flow as well as figures, result tables, etc. For example, it’s not necessary to use up entire of page 4 for figure 1 (which also doesn’t provide much information) Overall impression suggests that the paper wasn’t completed and should be carefully revised before submitting to another conference.