Stacked Graph Filter

Abstract: We study Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) from the graph signal processing viewpoint by addressing a difference between learning graph filters with fully connected weights versus trainable polynomial coefficients. We find that by stacking graph filters with learnable polynomial parameters, we can build a highly adaptive and robust vertex classification model. Our treatment here relaxes the low-frequency (or equivalently, high homophily) assumptions in existing vertex classification models, resulting a more ubiquitous solution in terms of spectral properties. Empirically, by using only one hyper-parameter setting, our model achieves strong results on most benchmark datasets across the frequency spectrum.