Project description
Building trustworthy graph neural networks
Graph neural networks (GNNs) promise to transform fields from drug discovery to energy management by analysing complex, interconnected data. However, designing components like pooling layers, which are used to summarise data locally for faster computations, remains challenging on irregular graph structures. Current approaches prioritise speed and predictive accuracy, but overlook trustworthiness, leaving models vulnerable to errors. This limits the reliability of GNNs in critical applications. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the Rand4TrustPool project aims to make GNNs trustworthy by integrating randomisation methods into pooling-layer design. By combining graph machine learning with signal processing, point processes, and random linear algebra, the project produces robust, transparent, and privacy-respecting GNN architectures.
Objective
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are deep learning architectures that hold the promise of durably changing our way of, e.g. predicting inter-molecular chemical affinity to accelerate drug discovery or smartly balancing power loads on the electricity grid. My project focuses on pooling layers, a major building block of neural networks, including GNNs. In a nutshell, pooling layers generate local summaries of the data to enable faster computations and generate discriminative multiscale representations. The traditional periodic-sampling-based pooling that has proven so successful for data defined on regular grids such as time series or images becomes ill-defined when the underlying space of the data loses its regularity such as data defined over graphs. Todays existing solutions stem from a trial-and-error approach often driven by two practical and somewhat short-sighted objectives: computation efficiency and empirical predictive performance. The aim of my project is to add trustworthiness as a main objective in the design of novel pooling layers for GNNs. To achieve this, I will bridge the fields of signal processing, point processes, and random numerical linear algebra with graph machine learning to incorporate random methods (mainly random sampling and random projections) into the design of pooling layers for GNNs. Indeed, randomized approaches are provably well adapted to three pillars of trustworthiness: technical robustness, transparency, and privacy. The outcome of my project will be an extensively tested, theoretically-grounded, trustworthy, ready-to-be-deployed, open-source, GNN-based toolbox, along with its user guide for practitioners. It will be the first GNN architecture benefiting from the theoretical guarantees random pooling layers come with. Such trustworthy GNNs will have an impact in the increasingly many fields in which GNNs are pushing the state-of-the-art: including circuit chip design, physics, drug discovery and network neuroscience.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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9019 Tromso
Norway
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