Graph Wavelet Neural Network
We present graph wavelet neural network (GWNN), a novel graph convolutional neural network (CNN), leveraging graph wavelet transform to address the shortcomings of previous spectral graph CNN methods that depend on graph Fourier transform. Different from graph Fourier transform, graph wavelet transform can be obtained via a fast algorithm without requiring matrix eigendecomposition with high computational cost. Moreover, graph wavelets are sparse and localized in vertex domain, offering high efficiency and good interpretability for graph convolution. The proposed GWNN significantly outperforms previous spectral graph CNNs in the task of graph-based semi-supervised classification on three benchmark datasets: Cora, Citeseer and Pubmed.
 This paper proposes to learn graph wavelet kernels through a neural network. This idea is interesting, even if it is not a real surprise, given the interesting features graph wavelets, and the explosion of proposals for graph neural networks. Yet, the paper is interesting, pretty complete, and the proposed algorithm is shown to be relatively effective. A few more detailed comments: - one for the key motivations the work, namely to avoid eigen-decompositions, is also solved in a different way by methods using Chebyshev approximations (e.g., Khasanova - ICML 2017). The introduction should be clarified accordingly. - retaining the flexibility of convolution kernel (on page 2): what do the authors mean here? - the graph wavelet nn in 2.4 is certainly an interesting combination of known elements - yet, it is not very clear how the network is trained/optimized at this stage. - the section 3 is a bit confusing: are the proposed elements, contributions of the paper, or only ideas with future work? - the idea of detaching feature transformation from convolution is interesting: it would be even better to quantify or discuss the penalty, if any, induced by this design choice. - the results are generally fine and convincing, even if they are not super-impressive. * GWNN is comfortably ahead of Spectral CNN. * is probably an over-statement however... - the discussion about interpretability is interesting, and very trendy. However, what the authors discuss is mere localisation and sparsity - this is one way to *interpret* interpretability of features, but that discussion should be rephrased in a more mild sense then. Generally, the ideas in this paper are interesting, even not surprising. The text should be clarified at places, and the paper looks a bit superficial on many aspects (see above). With good revision, it could lead to an interesting paper, and most likely to interesting discussions at ICLR.
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Graph Wavelet Neural Network
We present graph wavelet neural network (GWNN), a novel graph convolutional neural network (CNN), leveraging graph wavelet transform to address the shortcomings of previous spectral graph CNN methods that depend on graph Fourier transform. Different from graph Fourier transform, graph wavelet transform can be obtained via a fast algorithm without requiring matrix eigendecomposition with high computational cost. Moreover, graph wavelets are sparse and localized in vertex domain, offering high efficiency and good interpretability for graph convolution. The proposed GWNN significantly outperforms previous spectral graph CNNs in the task of graph-based semi-supervised classification on three benchmark datasets: Cora, Citeseer and Pubmed.
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 This paper proposes to learn graph wavelet kernels through a neural network. This idea is interesting, even if it is not a real surprise, given the interesting features graph wavelets, and the explosion of proposals for graph neural networks. Yet, the paper is interesting, pretty complete, and the proposed algorithm is shown to be relatively effective. A few more detailed comments: - one for the key motivations the work, namely to avoid eigen-decompositions, is also solved in a different way by methods using Chebyshev approximations (e.g., Khasanova - ICML 2017). The introduction should be clarified accordingly. - retaining the flexibility of convolution kernel (on page 2): what do the authors mean here? - the graph wavelet nn in 2.4 is certainly an interesting combination of known elements - yet, it is not very clear how the network is trained/optimized at this stage. - the section 3 is a bit confusing: are the proposed elements, contributions of the paper, or only ideas with future work? - the idea of detaching feature transformation from convolution is interesting: it would be even better to quantify or discuss the penalty, if any, induced by this design choice. - the results are generally fine and convincing, even if they are not super-impressive. * GWNN is comfortably ahead of Spectral CNN. * is probably an over-statement however... - the discussion about interpretability is interesting, and very trendy. However, what the authors discuss is mere localisation and sparsity - this is one way to *interpret* interpretability of features, but that discussion should be rephrased in a more mild sense then. Generally, the ideas in this paper are interesting, even not surprising. The text should be clarified at places, and the paper looks a bit superficial on many aspects (see above). With good revision, it could lead to an interesting paper, and most likely to interesting discussions at ICLR.
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 This paper proposes to learn graph wavelet kernels through a neural network. This idea is interesting, even if it is not a real surprise, given the interesting features graph wavelets, and the explosion of proposals for graph neural networks. Yet, the paper is interesting, pretty complete, and the proposed algorithm is shown to be relatively effective. A few more detailed comments: - one for the key motivations the work, namely to avoid eigen-decompositions, is also solved in a different way by methods using Chebyshev approximations (e.g., Khasanova - ICML 2017). The introduction should be clarified accordingly. - retaining the flexibility of convolution kernel (on page 2): what do the authors mean here? - the graph wavelet nn in 2.4 is certainly an interesting combination of known elements - yet, it is not very clear how the network is trained/optimized at this stage. - the section 3 is a bit confusing: are the proposed elements, contributions of the paper, or only ideas with future work? - the idea of detaching feature transformation from convolution is interesting: it would be even better to quantify or discuss the penalty, if any, induced by this design choice. - the results are generally fine and convincing, even if they are not super-impressive. * GWNN is comfortably ahead of Spectral CNN. * is probably an over-statement however... - the discussion about interpretability is interesting, and very trendy. However, what the authors discuss is mere localisation and sparsity - this is one way to *interpret* interpretability of features, but that discussion should be rephrased in a more mild sense then. Generally, the ideas in this paper are interesting, even not surprising. The text should be clarified at places, and the paper looks a bit superficial on many aspects (see above). With good revision, it could lead to an interesting paper, and most likely to interesting discussions at ICLR.