Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) face challenges with large graphs due to high memory requirements and inefficient sparse matrix operations on GPUs.
Quantum Computing (QC) is seen as a solution to address GNN challenges and has inspired new algorithmic approaches like Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNNs).
Current quantum hardware limitations restrict the effective encoding of data dimensions in QGNNs, leading to the manual simplification of datasets or the use of artificial graphs.
The Guided Graph Compression (GGC) framework is introduced to tackle these limitations by employing a graph autoencoder to reduce the number of nodes and the dimensionality of node features.
GGC compresses graphs to enhance downstream classification tasks, compatible with both quantum and classical classifiers.
This framework is evaluated on the Jet Tagging task, a crucial classification problem in high energy physics for distinguishing particle jets initiated by quarks and gluons.
GGC is compared favorably against using the autoencoder as a standalone step and a baseline classical GNN classifier, as proven by numerical results.
The performance of GGC surpasses the alternatives and enables the testing of novel QGNN approaches on practical datasets.