[HN Gopher] TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
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       TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
        
       Author : 0xedb
       Score  : 82 points
       Date   : 2021-11-18 18:33 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | technologia wrote:
       | I'm glad to see support for GNNs with tensorflow. Working with
       | gnns for the past few years, personally for me it gets tiring to
       | roll my own framework.
        
         | claytonjy wrote:
         | what's the state of GNN support elsewhere? does everyone else
         | also roll their own, or are folks using Pytorch or something
         | else?
        
           | rytill wrote:
           | This is a big one: https://github.com/pyg-
           | team/pytorch_geometric
        
           | patagurbon wrote:
           | DGL is the other big one, it supports several frameworks (at
           | least PyTorch and MXNet).
        
         | H8crilA wrote:
         | What's an example problem for which such networks work well?
        
           | lmeyerov wrote:
           | Think of it as an ensemble for blending your normal NN
           | features (ex: RNN for time/clickstreams) with a model that
           | can also leverage useful graph features (document citations,
           | app logins, chemicals connecting, social graphs).
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           | We think a lot about security/fraud and digital journeys,
           | where NN + xgboost are popular in general, and graph for
           | looking at broader structure, so GNNs enable better blending
           | these concepts. For example, in analyzing malicious user
           | accounts (ex: misinfo on twitter), we can get time/nlp/etc
           | scores, and use the social network structure to ensure better
           | propagation/blending, similar to why boosting and ensemble
           | methods became popular to beginwith.
        
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