Graphormer - Do Transformers Really Perform Bad for Graph Representation? | Paper Explained

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❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Paper: Do Transformers Really Perform Bad for Graph Representation? In this video, I cover Graphormer a new transformer model that achieved SOTA results on the OGB large-scale challenge benchmark. It achieved that by introducing 3 novel types of structural biases/encodings into the classic transformer encoder. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05234 ✅ What can GNNs learn blog: https://andreasloukas.blog/2019/12/27/what-gnn-can-and-cannot-learn/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 Key points of the paper 02:15 Graph-level predictions and why we need structural information 05:35 GNNs basics 09:40 Centrality encoding explained in depth 14:15 Spatial encoding explained in depth 18:00 Edge encoding explained in depth 22:30 Results on OGB LSC 23:30 Graphormer handles over-smoothing 25:10 Other results and ablation study 28:20 Graphormer is more expressive than WL 30:30 Mean aggregation as a special case of Graphormer 35:00 Sum aggregation as a special case of Graphormer ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 BECOME A PATREON OF THE AI EPIPHANY ❤️ If these videos, GitHub projects, and blogs help you, consider helping me out by supporting me on Patreon! The AI Epiphany ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Much love! ❤️ Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Petar Veličković Zvonimir Sabljic ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💡 The AI Epiphany is a channel dedicated to simplifying the field of AI using creative visualizations and in general, a stronger focus on geometrical and visual intuition, rather than the algebraic and numerical "intuition". ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ Twitter ► https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/aiepiphany/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/aiepiphany/ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord ► https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📢 SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack ► https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ 💻 FOLLOW ME ON GITHUB FOR COOL PROJECTS: GitHub ► https://github.com/gordicaleksa 📚 FOLLOW ME ON MEDIUM: Medium ► https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #graphormer #graphs #transformers

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