arXiv:2505.11930cs.LGcs.AI2025-05NeurIPS被引 2

用二维逻辑分析时序图神经网络,揭示其表达能力差异。

The Logical Expressiveness of Temporal GNNs via Two-Dimensional Product Logics

  • 将时序图神经网络与二维乘积逻辑关联,从逻辑角度刻画其能力。
  • 递归应用静态图网络可表达所有可定义于PTL与K逻辑的性质。
  • 多数现有架构受限于时空算子交互形式,表达能力较弱。

近年来,图神经网络(GNN)、Transformer 和循环神经网络等神经架构的表达能力已通过逻辑与形式语言理论工具得到刻画。随着基础架构能力日益清晰,研究重点转向融合多种范式的模型。其中,结合空间(图结构)与时间(演化过程)维度的时序图神经网络尤为关键且分析困难。本文首次通过二维乘积逻辑对时序图神经网络进行逻辑表征。结果表明,其表达能力取决于图与时间组件的结合方式:递归应用静态图网络的架构可捕捉所有在(过去)命题时序逻辑PTL与模态逻辑K的乘积逻辑中可定义的性质;而图-时同步TGNN和全局TGNN等架构仅能表达该逻辑的受限片段,其时空算子间的交互受语法限制。这是首个关于时序图神经网络逻辑表达能力的系统性结果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In recent years, the expressive power of various neural architectures -- including graph neural networks (GNNs), transformers, and recurrent neural networks -- has been characterised using tools from logic and formal language theory. As the capabilities of basic architectures are becoming well understood, increasing attention is turning to models that combine multiple architectural paradigms. Among them particularly important, and challenging to analyse, are temporal extensions of GNNs, which integrate both spatial (graph-structure) and temporal (evolution over time) dimensions. In this paper, we initiate the study of logical characterisation of temporal GNNs by connecting them to two-dimensional product logics. We show that the expressive power of temporal GNNs depends on how graph and temporal components are combined. In particular, temporal GNNs that apply static GNNs recursively over time can capture all properties definable in the product logic of (past) propositional temporal logic PTL and the modal logic K. In contrast, architectures such as graph-and-time TGNNs and global TGNNs can only express restricted fragments of this logic, where the interaction between temporal and spatial operators is syntactically constrained. These provide us with the first results on the logical expressiveness of temporal GNNs.

图神经网络时序建模逻辑表达形式化分析

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