“…While oversmoothing deteriorates the performance in GNNs, efforts have been made to preserve the identity of individual messages by modifying the message passing scheme, such as introducing jump connections (Xu et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2020b), sampling neighboring nodes and edges (Rong et al, 2019;Feng et al, 2020), adding regularizations (Chen et al, 2020a;Zhou et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2021), and increasing the complexity of convolutional layers (Balcilar et al, 2021;Geerts et al, 2021;Bodnar et al, 2021;. Other methods try to trade-off graph smoothness with the fitness of the encoded features (Zhu et al, 2021; or postpone the occurrence of oversmoothing by mechanisms, such as residual networks (Li et al, 2021a; and the diffusion scheme (Chamberlain et al, 2021;Zhao et al, 2021).…”