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arXiv Machine Learning By Kushal Bose, Swagatam Das

Asynchronous Message Passing for Addressing Oversquashing in Graph Neural Networks

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The paper introduces an asynchronous message‑passing framework for Graph Neural Networks to mitigate oversquashing, a problem where distant nodes cannot effectively communicate due to structural bottlenecks. Unlike conventional synchronous updates, the method updates a centrality‑guided batch of nodes at each layer, allowing information to propagate sequentially and reducing the need for increased channel capacity. Experiments on six standard and two long‑range graph classification benchmarks show notable performance gains, including 5 % improvement on REDDIT‑BINARY and 4 % on Peptides‑struct.

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