A systematic analysis and guidelines of graph neural networks for practical applications

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Highlights:

• We analyze the state-of-the-art methods of graph neural networks (GNN) in four phases.

• 1300 combinations of methods are compared with 13 well-known benchmark datasets.

• It results in five guidelines to use GNN for practical graph-related problems.

• Comparative experiments with more than 3600 runs support the analysis and guidelines.

• Experimental reproducibility and replicability are verified by comparing with the literature.

摘要

•We analyze the state-of-the-art methods of graph neural networks (GNN) in four phases.•1300 combinations of methods are compared with 13 well-known benchmark datasets.•It results in five guidelines to use GNN for practical graph-related problems.•Comparative experiments with more than 3600 runs support the analysis and guidelines.•Experimental reproducibility and replicability are verified by comparing with the literature.

论文关键词:Graph neural network,Graph embedding,Deep learning,Graph classification,Social network analysis,Bioinformatics

论文评审过程:Received 29 September 2020, Revised 15 May 2021, Accepted 21 June 2021, Available online 25 June 2021, Version of Record 29 June 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115466