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Question about permutation equivariance #22

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XikunHuang opened this issue Jan 19, 2024 · 0 comments
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Question about permutation equivariance #22

XikunHuang opened this issue Jan 19, 2024 · 0 comments

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Thank you for the wonderful and inspiring work. I have a question about the permutation equivariance of GNN score function.
In the last paragraph of Section 3.2, it writes:

Note that since the message-passing operations of GNNs and the attention function used in GMH are permutation equivariant.

I am wondering what is the meaning of permutation equivariant here. To my understanding, a GNN is permutation equivariant means:
$$PH = GNN(PX, PAP^T)$$
where H is the node embedding.

However, for score function with respect to $A_t$, the output of $s(X_t, A_t, t)$ has the same dimensionality as $A_t$, but we treat the output as "node embedding" with dimension $n$, and the permutation equivariance means:
$$s(PX_t, PA_tP^T, t) = Ps(X_t, A_t, t)$$
not
$$s(PX_t, PA_tP^T, t) = Ps(X_t, A_t, t)P^T$$
right?

Looking forward to your reply. Thanks a lot.
Xikun

@XikunHuang XikunHuang changed the title Question about permutation qeuivariance Question about permutation equivariance Jan 19, 2024
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