Recent advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs) have highlighted the critical need of calibrating model predictions, with neighborhood prediction similarity recognized as a pivotal component.
Existing approaches incorporate neighborhood similarity into node-wise temperature scaling techniques, but this assumption does not hold universally and can lead to sub-optimal calibration.
The new approach called Simi-Mailbox categorizes nodes by both neighborhood similarity and their own confidence, allowing fine-grained calibration using group-specific temperature scaling.
Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of Simi-Mailbox, achieving up to 13.79% error reduction compared to uncalibrated GNN predictions.