AI & MLRecommendedAIML-GRL-006

Expressivity and Oversmoothing in GNNs

What message passing cannot distinguish (the Weisfeiler-Lehman limit) and why deep GNNs blur node features.

Difficulty
4 / 5
Importance
4 / 5
Study time
1–2 h
Kind of work
Mixed

Why it matters

The learner can show two non-isomorphic graphs a message-passing GNN cannot tell apart and explain oversmoothing as depth grows.

The route to this topic

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