SDG: A Simplified and Dynamic Graph Neural Network

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many high-impact applications such as fraud detection, information retrieval, and recommender systems due to their powerful representation learning capabilities. Some nascent efforts have been concentrated on simplifying the structures of GNN models, in order to reduce the computational complexity. However, the dynamic nature of these applications requires GNN structures to be evolving over time, which has been largely overlooked so far. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose a simplified and dynamic graph neural network model, called SDG. It is efficient, effective, and provides interpretable predictions. In particular, in SDG, we replace the traditional message-passing mechanism of GNNs with the designed dynamic propagation scheme based on the personalized PageRank tracking process. We conduct extensive experiments and ablation studies to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed SDG. We also design a case study on fake news detection to show the interpretability of SDG.