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$P^2$GNN: Two Prototype Sets to boost GNN Performance

arXiv cs.LG / 3/11/2026

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  • $P^2$GNN is a novel plug-and-play technique designed to improve Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs) by introducing two prototype sets to enhance global context and denoise local neighborhoods.
  • It addresses key limitations of standard MP-GNNs, which typically rely heavily on local context and assume strong homophily, leading to challenges with noisy local neighborhoods.
  • The method treats prototypes as universally accessible neighbors to enrich global information and aligns messages to clustered prototypes for noise reduction, boosting performance across various GNN architectures.
  • Extensive experiments on 18 datasets, including proprietary e-commerce and open-source data, demonstrate $P^2$GNN's superior performance over production models in node recommendation and classification tasks.
  • Qualitative analyses confirm that incorporating global context and mitigating local noise significantly enhance GNN effectiveness, establishing $P^2$GNN as a leading approach in graph representation learning.

Computer Science > Machine Learning

arXiv:2603.09195 (cs)
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2026]

Title:$P^2$GNN: Two Prototype Sets to boost GNN Performance

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Abstract:Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs) have garnered attention for addressing various industry challenges, such as user recommendation and fraud detection. However, they face two major hurdles: (1) heavy reliance on local context, often lacking information about the global context or graph-level features, and (2) assumption of strong homophily among connected nodes, struggling with noisy local neighborhoods. To tackle these, we introduce $P^2$GNN, a plug-and-play technique leveraging prototypes to optimize message passing, enhancing the performance of the base GNN model. Our approach views the prototypes in two ways: (1) as universally accessible neighbors for all nodes, enriching global context, and (2) aligning messages to clustered prototypes, offering a denoising effect. We demonstrate the extensibility of our proposed method to all message-passing GNNs and conduct extensive experiments across 18 datasets, including proprietary e-commerce datasets and open-source datasets, on node recommendation and node classification tasks. Results show that $P^2$GNN outperforms production models in e-commerce and achieves the top average rank on open-source datasets, establishing it as a leading approach. Qualitative analysis supports the value of global context and noise mitigation in the local neighborhood in enhancing performance.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.09195 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2603.09195v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.09195
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From: Arihant Jain [view email]
[v1] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:10:02 UTC (740 KB)
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