Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) struggle with heterophilic data, where connected nodes may have dissimilar labels, due to homophily assumption and local message passing.
A new approach proposes creating alternative graph structures by linking nodes with similar structural attributes to improve label homophily.
Theoretical proof suggests GNN performance improvement by utilizing graphs with fewer false positive edges and considering multiple graph views.
Structure-Guided GNN (SG-GNN) is introduced as an architecture that processes original and newly created structural graphs to achieve state-of-the-art or highly competitive performance on datasets with heterophilic characteristics.