“…For example, for link prediction, GNN models, such as GCN (Kipf & Welling, 2017), GAE (Kipf & Welling, 2016) may perform even worse than some simple heuristics such as common neighbors and Adamic Adar (Liben-Nowell & Kleinberg, 2007) (see the performance comparison over the networks Collab and PPA in Open Graph Benchmark (OGB) (Hu et al, 2020)). Similar issues widely appear in node-set-based tasks such as network motif prediction (Liu et al, 2022;Besta et al, 2021), motif counting (Chen et al, 2020), relation prediction (Wang et al, 2021a;Teru et al, 2020) and temporal interaction prediction (Wang et al, 2021b), which posts a big concern for applying GNNs to these relevant real-world applications.…”