docs/source/tutorial/create_gnn.rst
Generalizing the convolution operator to irregular domains is typically expressed as a neighborhood aggregation or message passing scheme.
With :math:\mathbf{x}^{(k-1)}_i \in \mathbb{R}^F denoting node features of node :math:i in layer :math:(k-1) and :math:\mathbf{e}_{j,i} \in \mathbb{R}^D denoting (optional) edge features from node :math:j to node :math:i, message passing graph neural networks can be described as
.. math:: \mathbf{x}_i^{(k)} = \gamma^{(k)} \left( \mathbf{x}i^{(k-1)}, \bigoplus{j \in \mathcal{N}(i)} , \phi^{(k)}\left(\mathbf{x}_i^{(k-1)}, \mathbf{x}j^{(k-1)},\mathbf{e}{j,i}\right) \right),
where :math:\bigoplus denotes a differentiable, permutation invariant function, e.g., sum, mean or max, and :math:\gamma and :math:\phi denote differentiable functions such as MLPs (Multi Layer Perceptrons).
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:pyg:PyG provides the :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing base class, which helps in creating such kinds of message passing graph neural networks by automatically taking care of message propagation.
The user only has to define the functions :math:\phi , i.e. :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.message, and :math:\gamma , i.e. :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.update, as well as the aggregation scheme to use, i.e. :obj:aggr="add", :obj:aggr="mean" or :obj:aggr="max".
This is done with the help of the following methods:
MessagePassing(aggr="add", flow="source_to_target", node_dim=-2): Defines the aggregation scheme to use (:obj:"add", :obj:"mean" or :obj:"max") and the flow direction of message passing (either :obj:"source_to_target" or :obj:"target_to_source").
Furthermore, the :obj:node_dim attribute indicates along which axis to propagate.MessagePassing.propagate(edge_index, size=None, **kwargs):
The initial call to start propagating messages.
Takes in the edge indices and all additional data which is needed to construct messages and to update node embeddings.
Note that :func:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.propagate is not limited to exchanging messages in square adjacency matrices of shape :obj:[N, N] only, but can also exchange messages in general sparse assignment matrices, e.g., bipartite graphs, of shape :obj:[N, M] by passing :obj:size=(N, M) as an additional argument.
If set to :obj:None, the assignment matrix is assumed to be a square matrix.
For bipartite graphs with two independent sets of nodes and indices, and each set holding its own information, this split can be marked by passing the information as a tuple, e.g. :obj:x=(x_N, x_M).MessagePassing.message(...): Constructs messages to node :math:i in analogy to :math:\phi for each edge :math:(j,i) \in \mathcal{E} if :obj:flow="source_to_target" and :math:(i,j) \in \mathcal{E} if :obj:flow="target_to_source".
Can take any argument which was initially passed to :meth:propagate.
In addition, tensors passed to :meth:propagate can be mapped to the respective nodes :math:i and :math:j by appending :obj:_i or :obj:_j to the variable name, e.g. :obj:x_i and :obj:x_j.
Note that we generally refer to :math:i as the central nodes that aggregates information, and refer to :math:j as the neighboring nodes, since this is the most common notation.MessagePassing.update(aggr_out, ...): Updates node embeddings in analogy to :math:\gamma for each node :math:i \in \mathcal{V}.
Takes in the output of aggregation as first argument and any argument which was initially passed to :func:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.propagate.Let us verify this by re-implementing two popular GNN variants, the GCN layer from Kipf and Welling <https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02907>_ and the EdgeConv layer from Wang et al. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07829>_.
The GCN layer <https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02907>_ is mathematically defined as
.. math::
\mathbf{x}_i^{(k)} = \sum_{j \in \mathcal{N}(i) \cup \{ i \}} \frac{1}{\sqrt{\deg(i)} \cdot \sqrt{\deg(j)}} \cdot \left( \mathbf{W}^{\top} \cdot \mathbf{x}_j^{(k-1)} \right) + \mathbf{b},
where neighboring node features are first transformed by a weight matrix :math:\mathbf{W}, normalized by their degree, and finally summed up.
Lastly, we apply the bias vector :math:\mathbf{b} to the aggregated output.
This formula can be divided into the following steps:
\phi."add" aggregation).Steps 1-3 are typically computed before message passing takes place.
Steps 4-5 can be easily processed using the :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing base class.
The full layer implementation is shown below:
.. code-block:: python
import torch
from torch.nn import Linear, Parameter
from torch_geometric.nn import MessagePassing
from torch_geometric.utils import add_self_loops, degree
class GCNConv(MessagePassing):
def __init__(self, in_channels, out_channels):
super().__init__(aggr='add') # "Add" aggregation (Step 5).
self.lin = Linear(in_channels, out_channels, bias=False)
self.bias = Parameter(torch.empty(out_channels))
self.reset_parameters()
def reset_parameters(self):
self.lin.reset_parameters()
self.bias.data.zero_()
def forward(self, x, edge_index):
# x has shape [N, in_channels]
# edge_index has shape [2, E]
# Step 1: Add self-loops to the adjacency matrix.
edge_index, _ = add_self_loops(edge_index, num_nodes=x.size(0))
# Step 2: Linearly transform node feature matrix.
x = self.lin(x)
# Step 3: Compute normalization.
row, col = edge_index
deg = degree(col, x.size(0), dtype=x.dtype)
deg_inv_sqrt = deg.pow(-0.5)
deg_inv_sqrt[deg_inv_sqrt == float('inf')] = 0
norm = deg_inv_sqrt[row] * deg_inv_sqrt[col]
# Step 4-5: Start propagating messages.
out = self.propagate(edge_index, x=x, norm=norm)
# Step 6: Apply a final bias vector.
out = out + self.bias
return out
def message(self, x_j, norm):
# x_j has shape [E, out_channels]
# Step 4: Normalize node features.
return norm.view(-1, 1) * x_j
:class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.GCNConv inherits from :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing with :obj:"add" propagation.
All the logic of the layer takes place in its :meth:forward method.
Here, we first add self-loops to our edge indices using the :meth:torch_geometric.utils.add_self_loops function (step 1), as well as linearly transform node features by calling the :class:torch.nn.Linear instance (step 2).
The normalization coefficients are derived by the node degrees :math:\deg(i) for each node :math:i which gets transformed to :math:1/(\sqrt{\deg(i)} \cdot \sqrt{\deg(j)}) for each edge :math:(j,i) \in \mathcal{E}.
The result is saved in the tensor :obj:norm of shape :obj:[num_edges, ] (step 3).
We then call :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.propagate, which internally calls :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.message, :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.aggregate and :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.update.
We pass the node embeddings :obj:x and the normalization coefficients :obj:norm as additional arguments for message propagation.
In the :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.message function, we need to normalize the neighboring node features :obj:x_j by :obj:norm.
Here, :obj:x_j denotes a lifted tensor, which contains the source node features of each edge, i.e., the neighbors of each node.
Node features can be automatically lifted by appending :obj:_i or :obj:_j to the variable name.
In fact, any tensor can be converted this way, as long as they hold source or destination node features.
That is all that it takes to create a simple message passing layer. You can use this layer as a building block for deep architectures. Initializing and calling it is straightforward:
.. code-block:: python
conv = GCNConv(16, 32)
x = conv(x, edge_index)
The edge convolutional layer <https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07829>_ processes graphs or point clouds and is mathematically defined as
.. math::
\mathbf{x}_i^{(k)} = \max_{j \in \mathcal{N}(i)} h_{\mathbf{\Theta}} \left( \mathbf{x}_i^{(k-1)}, \mathbf{x}_j^{(k-1)} - \mathbf{x}_i^{(k-1)} \right),
where :math:h_{\mathbf{\Theta}} denotes an MLP.
In analogy to the GCN layer, we can use the :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing class to implement this layer, this time using the :obj:"max" aggregation:
.. code-block:: python
import torch
from torch.nn import Sequential as Seq, Linear, ReLU
from torch_geometric.nn import MessagePassing
class EdgeConv(MessagePassing):
def __init__(self, in_channels, out_channels):
super().__init__(aggr='max') # "Max" aggregation.
self.mlp = Seq(Linear(2 * in_channels, out_channels),
ReLU(),
Linear(out_channels, out_channels))
def forward(self, x, edge_index):
# x has shape [N, in_channels]
# edge_index has shape [2, E]
return self.propagate(edge_index, x=x)
def message(self, x_i, x_j):
# x_i has shape [E, in_channels]
# x_j has shape [E, in_channels]
tmp = torch.cat([x_i, x_j - x_i], dim=1) # tmp has shape [E, 2 * in_channels]
return self.mlp(tmp)
Inside the :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.message_passing.MessagePassing.message function, we use :obj:self.mlp to transform both the target node features :obj:x_i and the relative source node features :obj:x_j - x_i for each edge :math:(j,i) \in \mathcal{E}.
The edge convolution is actually a dynamic convolution, which recomputes the graph for each layer using nearest neighbors in the feature space.
Luckily, :pyg:PyG comes with a GPU accelerated batch-wise k-NN graph generation method named :meth:torch_geometric.nn.pool.knn_graph:
.. code-block:: python
from torch_geometric.nn import knn_graph
class DynamicEdgeConv(EdgeConv):
def __init__(self, in_channels, out_channels, k=6):
super().__init__(in_channels, out_channels)
self.k = k
def forward(self, x, batch=None):
edge_index = knn_graph(x, self.k, batch, loop=False, flow=self.flow)
return super().forward(x, edge_index)
Here, :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.pool.knn_graph computes a nearest neighbor graph, which is further used to call the :meth:forward method of :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.EdgeConv.
This leaves us with a clean interface for initializing and calling this layer:
.. code-block:: python
conv = DynamicEdgeConv(3, 128, k=6)
x = conv(x, batch)
Imagine we are given the following :obj:~torch_geometric.data.Data object:
.. code-block:: python
import torch
from torch_geometric.data import Data
edge_index = torch.tensor([[0, 1],
[1, 0],
[1, 2],
[2, 1]], dtype=torch.long)
x = torch.tensor([[-1], [0], [1]], dtype=torch.float)
data = Data(x=x, edge_index=edge_index.t().contiguous())
Try to answer the following questions related to :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.GCNConv:
What information does :obj:row and :obj:col hold?
What does :meth:~torch_geometric.utils.degree do?
Why do we use :obj:degree(col, ...) rather than :obj:degree(row, ...)?
What does :obj:deg_inv_sqrt[col] and :obj:deg_inv_sqrt[row] do?
What information does :obj:x_j hold in the :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.MessagePassing.message function? If :obj:self.lin denotes the identity function, what is the exact content of :obj:x_j?
Add an :meth:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.MessagePassing.update function to :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.GCNConv that adds transformed central node features to the aggregated output.
Try to answer the following questions related to :class:~torch_geometric.nn.conv.EdgeConv:
What is :obj:x_i and :obj:x_j - x_i?
What does :obj:torch.cat([x_i, x_j - x_i], dim=1) do? Why :obj:dim = 1?