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GCNII: a 64-layer GCN on Cora

Author: K3-Node Team
Backend: Multi-Backend
Dataset: Cora (Planetoid)
Description: Classify papers in the Cora citation network by topic with a very deep (64-layer) GCN.

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GCNII: a 64-layer GCN on Cora

Classify papers in the Cora citation network by topic with a very deep (64-layer) GCN. GCNII (Chen et al., 2020) avoids over-smoothing by mixing the first layer's representation back in at every layer (initial residual) and keeping each layer close to the identity (identity mapping).

Same model as PyG's examples/gcn2_cora.py; trained for 200 epochs instead of PyG's 1000 to keep the notebook quick.

Install K3-Node, then choose a backend: "tensorflow", "torch" or "jax"

!pip install k3-node[examples]
import os
os.environ["KERAS_BACKEND"] = "tensorflow"

Load the data

data holds one graph: node features x, edges edge_index, labels y, and masks marking the training, validation and test nodes.

import keras
from keras import ops
from k3_node.datasets import Planetoid
from k3_node.loader import FullGraphDataset
from k3_node.transforms import NormalizeFeatures

dataset = Planetoid("data/Planetoid", name="Cora", transform=NormalizeFeatures())
data = dataset[0]
print(data)

Define the model

from k3_node.layers import GCN2Conv


class GCNII(keras.Model):
    def __init__(self, in_channels, hidden_channels, out_channels, num_layers, alpha, theta, dropout):
        super().__init__()
        self.dropout = keras.layers.Dropout(dropout)
        self.lin_in = keras.layers.Dense(hidden_channels, activation="relu")
        self.convs = [GCN2Conv(hidden_channels, alpha, theta, layer + 1) for layer in range(num_layers)]
        self.lin_out = keras.layers.Dense(out_channels)

    def call(self, data, training=False):
        x = self.dropout(data.x, training=training)
        x = x_0 = self.lin_in(x)
        for conv in self.convs:
            x = self.dropout(x, training=training)
            x = ops.relu(conv(x, x_0, data.edge_index))
        x = self.dropout(x, training=training)
        return self.lin_out(x)


model = GCNII(dataset.num_features, hidden_channels=64, out_channels=dataset.num_classes,
              num_layers=64, alpha=0.1, theta=0.5, dropout=0.6)

Train

FullGraphDataset feeds the whole graph to Keras; mask selects which nodes count in the loss and the accuracy.

model.compile(
    optimizer=keras.optimizers.Adam(learning_rate=0.01, weight_decay=0.0005),
    loss=keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True),
    weighted_metrics=["accuracy"],
)
model.fit(
    FullGraphDataset(data, mask="train_mask"),
    validation_data=FullGraphDataset(data, mask="val_mask"),
    epochs=200,
    verbose=2,
)

Evaluate

loss, accuracy = model.evaluate(FullGraphDataset(data, mask="test_mask"), verbose=0)
print(f"Test accuracy: {accuracy:.4f}")