Heterogeneous GNNs

GNN: Graph Neural Network

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Heterogeneous GNNs study how to represent and make predictions from graphs whose nodes and edges have different types, such as patients and diagnoses or users and transactions. Common approaches use relation-aware message passing, attention over typed neighbors, meta-paths, temporal encodings, and contrastive or self-supervised pretraining. These models are applied to tasks including recommendation, fraud detection, biomedical prediction, and power-system analysis, with evaluation spanning both established graph benchmarks and domain-specific data. A central challenge is balancing scalable learning and transfer across graphs with preserving type-specific meaning, especially when relations are noisy, sparse, or heterophilous.

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  1. LLM-Enhanced Heterogeneous Graph Learning with Business Semantics for Financial Fraud Detection

    Oct 26, 2026Yixuan Chen, Hongyu Zhan, Jie Sheng +5Financial Fraud DetectionHeterogeneous GNNs

    HKUST-GZ & Jilin University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Ant International +1

  2. RGH-GNN : Risk-Gated Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Financial Fraud Detection

    Oct 19, 2026Mythreyee Hari, Subin Sahayam, Vegesna S M SrinivasavarmaFinancial Fraud DetectionGraph Neural Networks

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai - 603110, Tamil Nadu, India

  3. Money-Mule Detection as a Relational Learning Problem: A Study on the RBIH NFPC Dataset

    Oct 15, 2026Owais Ahmad, Anirudh DeodharFinancial Fraud DetectionAnti-Money Laundering Detection

    Applied Research, Quantiphi, Marlborough, MA 01752, USA

  4. HGRP: Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Routability Prediction

    Oct 14, 2026Yule Sheng, Yue Yuan, Shan Shen +1Electronic Design AutomationHeterogeneous GNNs

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

  5. When Does the Dependency Graph Help Code-to-Architecture Mapping?

    Oct 14, 2026Rakhshanda Jabeen, Morgan Ericsson, Jonas Nordqvist +1Software EngineeringGraph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning

    Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden · Electrolux Professional AB, Ljungby, Sweden · Department of Mathematics, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

  6. CktHGVAE: A Symmetric Design/State Heterogeneous Graph Variational Autoencoder for Transistor-level Analog/Mixed-signal Circuit Design and Analysis

    Oct 14, 2026Shigeyasu UnoAnalog Circuit SizingElectronic Design Automation

    Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan

  7. Shared-Roadmap Generation and Evaluator for Multi-Agent Path Planning Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

    Oct 6, 2026Brandon Ho, Nikola Rogers, Seung-Kyum ChoiMulti-Agent PlanningMulti-Agent Path Finding

    Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  8. Dual-Scale Relational Graph Transformers for Ecosystem-Aware Fraud Detection

    Oct 2, 2026Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, Xinrou Li, Yao Xiao +2Financial Fraud DetectionGraph Transformer

    University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA · AI Foundations, Capital One, McLean, VA, USA

  9. RACE: Relation-Level Counterfactual Explanations for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks

    Sep 29, 2026Yuxiang Yao, Zijun ZhaoGraph Counterfactual ExplanationsGNN Explainability

    Project Management Department, Research Center, China Life Insurance Company Ltd. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology

  10. Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Pretraining for Relational Deep Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Yixin Peng, Er Jin, Diego Collarana +1Temporal GNNsHeterogeneous GNNs

    RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany · Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  11. Mycelium: A Generalizable Cross-Grid Multi-Task Model for Electrical Distribution Systems

    Sep 27, 2026Zhengyang Wei, Shourya Bose, Helgi Hilmarsson +2Power SystemsMulti-Task Learning

    Stanford University · Pravāh

  12. Communication-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Decentralized Multi-Human Multi-Robot Task Allocation

    Sep 26, 2026Ziqin Yuan, Ruiqi Wang, Baijian Yang +1Multi-Robot Task AllocationHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. · Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA.

  13. Unified Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network solver for Power Flow, Optimal Power Flow and State Estimation

    Sep 15, 2026Ferran Bohigas-Daranas, Hamid Latif-Martínez, Eduardo Prieto-Araujo +2Heterogeneous GNNsMulti-Task Learning

  14. Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning: A Survey

    Sep 4, 2026Huan Liu, Pengfei Jiao, Jie Yin +2Graph Representation LearningDynamic Graph Learning

    School of Cyberspace, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China · Discipline of Business Analytics, The University of Sydney, Australia · Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Sensitive Data Security Protection and Confidentiality Management, Hangzhou, China

  15. Beyond Similarity: Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Multi-Objective Food Substitution in Charitable Food Agencies

    Aug 22, 2026Naimur Rahman Chowdhury, Limon Bin HossainRecommender SystemsLearning to Rank

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, USA · Department of Industrial and Production Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, Bangladesh

  16. FinFraudBench: A Heterogeneous Graph Benchmark for Financial Fraud Detection

    Aug 15, 2026Yixuan Chen, Hongyu Zhan, Jie Sheng +5Financial Fraud DetectionNode Classification

    HKUST-GZ · Jilin University · Ant Group +1

  17. EGRL: Edge generation-guided relation-aware learning for RNA-protein interaction prediction

    Aug 13, 2026Danyu Li, Ling Zhou, Rubing Huang +3Graph Structure LearningHeterogeneous GNNs

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR, 999078, China · Macau University of Science and Technology Zhuhai Research Institute, Zhuhai, Guangdong, 519099, China · Hubei Key Laboratory of Transportation Internet of Things, School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China +2

  18. MiGHT-EHR: A Multi-task Graph Transformer for Heterogeneous Temporal Electronic Health Records

    Aug 5, 2026Anirudh Rayas, Yuan Wang, Pavan TuragaMedication RecommendationHeterogeneous GNNs

    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA · University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

  19. CT-HEG: A Bidirectional, Timestamp-Attributed Event Graph for ICU In-Hospital Mortality Prediction - An Architectural Ablation Study

    Aug 1, 2026Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Rahnuma Tabassum Orpita, Asaduzzaman Anik +4Heterogeneous GNNsLongitudinal EHR Modeling

    College of Business, DBA-BIDA, Westcliff University, Los Angeles, CA, USA · Dept. of CSE, Northern University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh · MBA, Business Administration & Management, Stanton University, Anaheim, CA, USA +2

  20. TRWH: A Text-Driven Random Walk Heterogeneous GNN for Semantic-Aware Sparse Recommendation

    Jul 28, 2026He Ma, Chen LiuHeterogeneous GNNsRecommender Systems

    The University of Sydney Camperdown, NSW, 2006, Australia · Nankai University Tianjing, China

  21. ParasGB: A Graph Benchmark Suite for Parasitic Estimation on AMS Circuits

    Jul 25, 2026Jiajun Zou, Jiawei Liu, Ao Liu +8Graph Neural NetworksHeterogeneous GNNs

    1Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · 3Dept. Computer Science & Tech., BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +3

  22. Cardinality-Decomposed Loss: Matching Training Objectives to Relation Structure in Heterogeneous Recommendation Graphs

    Jul 22, 2026Parul Maheshwari, Amulya Paruchuri, Yiqing Zou +3Pairwise Preference LearningHeterogeneous GNNs

    PayPal AI · PayPal Inc. · USA

  23. Sequential Learner Modeling Using Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Networks

    Jul 21, 2026Rawaa Alatrash, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Hong Yang +1Heterogeneous GNNsUser Modeling

  24. Canopy: A Heterograph Foundation Model for Metabolic Engineering

    Jul 7, 2026Jake Bowden, Laurence Legon, Satnam SuraeHeterogeneous GNNsGraph SSL

    Twig Bio, London, United Kingdom

  25. LLM-Enhanced Hierarchical Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning for Malicious Python Package Detection

    Jul 3, 2026Hang Gao, Xiaoyu Chen, Baoquan Cui +4Heterogeneous GNNsHierarchical Representation Learning

    Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  26. Heterogeneous Graph Condensation via Role-Aware Clustering

    Jul 3, 2026Fuyan Ou, Yulin Hu, Ye YuanHeterogeneous GNNs

  27. Spatial Support Matters: Geometry-Aware Graph Fusion for Rainfall Field Reconstruction

    Jul 2, 2026Low Jun Yu, Niramay Kachhadiya, Herath Mudiyanselage Viraj Vidura Herath +2Heterogeneous GNNsMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney

  28. Blackknife: Query-Free Black-Box Rewiring Attacks on Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks

    Jun 28, 2026Honglin Gao, Junhao Ren, Lan Zhao +4Heterogeneous GNNsAdversarial Robustness

    Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore · Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  29. GNBAN: Graph Neural Basis Attention Networks for Long-Horizon Forecasting over Large Entity Sets

    Jun 26, 2026Janak M. Patel, Anirudh Deodhar, Dagnachew BirruMultivariate Time Series ForecastingLong-Term Time Series Forecasting

    Phi Labs, Quantiphi Marlborough, MA 01752, USA

  30. hia-gat: A Heterogeneous Interaction-Aware Graph Attention Network For Frame-Level Traffic Conflict Risk Prediction On Freeways

    Jun 25, 2026Mahshid Malazizi, Seyedmehdi Khaleghian, Mina Sartipi +3Graph Attention NetworksIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Center for Urban Informatics and Progress University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN, USA, 37403 · DENSO International America, Inc. Southfield, MI, USA