Timetable

You can download the program and the collection of abstracts here.

Program at a glance:

*The Social Dinner will take place at the restaurant 

Compagnia dei Vinattieri - Via delle Terme, 79, Siena 

Program details:

Wednesday 4th December

12:00-13:00 Badge Pick-up

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:00 Welcoming talk by Prof. Monica Bianchini and Prof. Franco Scarselli

15:00-16:00 Keynote Talk "A journey through efficient deep learning on graphs" Prof. Alessio Micheli

16:00-16:40 Coffee Break

16:40-17:00 Sponsor Highlight: QuestIt

17:00-18:00 Spotlight talks

20:00- Social Dinner (Compagnia dei Vinattieri - Via delle Terme, 79, Siena)

Thursday 5th December

9:00-10:00 Keynote Talk "Hierarchical pooling in Graph Neural Networks" Prof. Filippo Maria Bianchi

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Tutorial "Probabilistic Methods for Graph Prediction and Generation" Prof. Marco Podda, Federico Errica 

11:30-12:30 Open Talks: 

"BN-Pool: a Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Graph Pooling" Daniele Castellana 

"xAI-Drop: Don’t Use What You Cannot Explain" Vincenzo Marco De Luca

"Edge-Wise Graph-Instructed Neural Networks for Regression on Graphs" Francesco Della Santa 

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Poster Session I (Palazzo Sansedoni)

"MaxCutPool: Differentiable Feature-Aware MAXCUT for Pooling in Graph Neural Networks" Carlo Abate

"NeuraGED: A GNN estimation for Graph–Edit Distance" Sara Bacconi

"Graphons: What, Why, How." Ben Cullen

"xAI-Drop: Don’t Use What You Cannot Explain" Vincenzo Marco De Luca

"Link Prediction with Physics-Inspired Graph Neural Networks" Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco

"Tomorrow Brings Greater Knowledge: Large Language Models Join Dynamic Temporal Knowledge Graphs" Christian Di Maio

"Learning the Dynamics of Biological Networks with Deep Graph Networks" Alessandro Dipalma

"Adaptive Message Passing: learn to control oversquashing, oversmoothing, and underreaching" Federico Errica 

"Let There be Direction in Hypergraph Neural Networks" Stefano Fiorini

"XAI and the Inductive Bias of Deep Graph Networks" Michele Fontanesi

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Poster Session II (Palazzo Sansedoni)

"Early-Exit Graph Neural Networks" Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco

"Graph Neural Re-Ranking via Corpus Graph" Christian Giannetti

"A Simple and Expressive Graph Neural Network Based Method for Structural Link Representation" Veronica Lachi

"Organic Molecule Generation using Latent Diffusion" Duccio Menconcelli

"A Comparison of Hyperbolic and Euclidean Graph Convolutional Architecures in Brain Connectivity Networks" Dionisia Naddeo

"Separation Power of Equivariant Neural Networks" Marco Pacini

"Is rewiring actually helpful in graph neural networks?" Domenico Tortorella

"Graphs, Context-Awareness, and Recommender Systems for Cultural Heritage Enhancement" Carmine Valentino

"Graph State-Space Models" Daniele Zambon

"Robustness of Graph Classification: failure modes, causes, and noise-resistant loss in Graph Neural Networks" Farooq Wani

17:00- Tour of the city 

Friday 6th December

9:00-10:00 Keynote Talk "Advances in Subgraph GNNs for Expressive and Efficient Learning on Graphs"  Fabrizio Frasca

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Tutorial "Graph Deep Learning for Time Series Processing" Ivan Marisca, Andrea Cini, Daniele Zambon 

12:00-13:20 Open Talks: 

"Network Science meets AI" Manuel Dileo

"What is going on with oversmoothing, oversquashing, and underreaching?" Federico Errica 

"Let There be Direction in Hypergraph Neural Networks" Stefano Fiorini

"Combining pretrained tabular models with static GNNs in Relational Deep Learning" Antonio Longa

13:20 - 13:30 Final Remarks

*You can download the program (PDF file) here.