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Taking lessons from history: Memory Augmented Self Distillation for graph neural networks

Aug 2026 · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Vol 40 · 0 citations · 51 references
Advanced Graph Neural Networks

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This study introduces a novel memory-augmented self-learning framework that extracts and provides diverse learning sources for adaptive knowledge distillation from the student model itself, resulting in a 2.5-6% increase in accuracy across various benchmark datasets compared to current GNN training and self-distillation methods.

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