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In this paper, we focus on the following three questions:
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\item How does the structure of the graph affect the performance of GNNs?
\item What are the differences between GNNs and classical ML models when applied to graph-structured data?
\item How can we design effective GNN architectures for different graph-structured datasets?
\end{enumerate}
We answer these questions by conducting a comprehensive empirical study on several benchmark datasets. We evaluate various GNN architectures and compare their performance with that of classical ML models. We also analyze how different graph properties influence the performance of GNNs. Our results show that GNNs can achieve better performance than classical ML models in most cases, and that they are more sensitive to certain graph properties than others. Additionally, we find that carefully designed GNN architectures can significantly improve the performance on certain datasets.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section~\ref{sec:background} introduces background knowledge about graph neural networks and related works; Section~\ref{sec:methodology} describes our experimental methodology; Section~\ref{sec:results} presents our empirical results; Section~\ref{sec:discussion} discusses our results in detail; finally, Section~\ref{sec:conclusion} concludes this paper.
\section{Background}\label{sec:background}
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models designed to process data represented as graphs or networks \cite{scarselli2009graph}. They have been used for various tasks such as node classification \cite{kipf2017semi}, link prediction \cite{zhang2018link}, and graph classification \cite{ying2018hierarchical}. In this section, we introduce some background knowledge about GNNs and related works.
%Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models designed to process data represented as graphs or networks \cite{scarselli2009graph}. They have been used for various tasks such as node classification \cite{kipf2017semi}, link prediction \cite{zhang2018link}, and graph classification \cite{ying2018hierarchical}. In this section, we introduce some background knowledge about GNNs and related works.
%In this section, we introduce some background knowledge about Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and related works.
%Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models designed to process data represented as graphs or networks \cite{scarselli2009graph}. They have been used for various tasks such as node classification \cite{kipf2017semi}, link prediction \cite{zhang2018link}, and graph classification \cite{ying2018hierarchical}. In this section, we introduce some background knowledge about GNNs and related works.
%Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning models designed to process data represented as graphs or networks [1]. They have been used for various tasks such as node classification [2], link prediction [3], and graph classification [4]. In this section, we introduce some background knowledge about GNNs and related works.
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