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GRAPH-BASED MACHINE LEARNING

Half a decade of graph convolutional networks

Graph convolutional networks have become a popular tool for learning with graphs and networks. We reflect on the reasons behind the success story.

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Fig. 1: Scheme for a graph neural network.

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Haghir Chehreghani, M. Half a decade of graph convolutional networks. Nat Mach Intell 4, 192–193 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00466-8

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