Introduction to Graph Neural Networks
Chapter 1: Foundations of Graph-Based Learning
What is Graph Data?
Limitations of Standard Neural Networks on Graphs
Common Graph Machine Learning Tasks
Representing Graphs: Adjacency and Feature Matrices
Graph Properties and Measurements
Introduction to the NetworkX Library
Hands-on: Loading and Inspecting a Graph Dataset
Chapter 2: The Message Passing Mechanism
The Neighborhood Aggregation Idea
A General GNN Layer: Aggregate and Update
Common Aggregation Functions
Update Functions and Non-Linearities
Permutation Invariance and Equivariance
Stacking Layers to Form a Deep GNN
Practice: A Simple GNN Layer with NumPy
Chapter 3: Foundational GNN Architectures
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN)
A Spatial Interpretation of Graph Convolutions
GraphSAGE: Sampling and Aggregating Neighborhoods
Inductive Learning with GraphSAGE
Graph Attention Networks (GAT)
The Attention Mechanism in GATs
Comparing GCN, GraphSAGE, and GAT
Hands-on: Implementing a GCN from Scratch
Chapter 4: Training GNN Models
Setting up a GNN for Node Classification
Loss Functions for Graph Tasks
The Training Loop for GNNs
Data Splitting in Graphs: Transductive vs. Inductive
Evaluation Metrics for Node Classification
Overfitting and Regularization in GNNs
Practice: Training and Evaluating your GCN
Chapter 5: GNN Implementation with PyTorch Geometric
Introduction to PyTorch Geometric (PyG)
The PyG Data Object
Working with PyG Datasets
Building Models with PyG GNN Layers
Mini-Batching for Large Graphs
A Complete Training Script in PyG
Hands-on: Node Classification on the Cora Dataset with PyG
A Spatial Interpretation of Graph Convolutions
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- Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks, Thomas N. Kipf and Max Welling, 2017 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1609.02907 - The foundational paper introducing Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their specific update rule with symmetric normalization.
- Neural Message Passing for Quantum Chemistry, Justin Gilmer, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Patrick F. Riley, Oriol Vinyals, and George E. Dahl, 2017 Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, Vol. 70 (PMLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1704.01212 - Formalizes the Message Passing Neural Network (MPNN) framework, illustrating GCNs as a specific instance of message passing.
- Inductive Representation Learning on Large Graphs, William L. Hamilton, Rex Ying, and Jure Leskovec, 2017 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1706.02216 - Introduces the GraphSAGE framework, which extends neighborhood aggregation beyond GCNs and enables inductive learning.