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arXiv Machine Learning By Asela Hevapathige, Ahad N. Zehmakan, Asiri Wijesinghe, Saman Halgamuge

Not Just Oversmoothing: Detecting the Echo Chamber Effect in Graph Neural Networks

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The paper introduces the Echo Chamber Effect, a failure mode in Graph Neural Networks where intra-community representations collapse while inter-community separation remains, differing from traditional oversmoothing. It proposes the Echo Chamber Index (ECI) to detect this effect by stratifying pairwise distances by community membership. Building on this analysis, the authors present Community-Aware Split Propagation (CASP), a lightweight plugin that decouples intra- and inter-community aggregation and learns their balance from label structure, improving performance across various GNN backbones in both homophilic and heterophilic settings.

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