VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Vempalli Naga Sai Saketh
dblp:439/0853
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Graph learning · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Interpretable and Parameter Efficient Graph Neural Additive Models with Random Fourier Features · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network › trustworthy graph neural networks
interpretable graph neural network |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Interpretable and Parameter Efficient Graph Neural Additive Models with Random Fourier Features · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
random fourier features · 0.9neural additive models · 0.9gaussian process · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Interpretable and Parameter Efficient Graph Neural Additive Models with Random Fourier FeaturesabstractGraph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at jointly modeling node features and topology, yet their black-box nature limits their adoption in real-world applications where interpretability is desired. Inspired by the success of interpretable Neural Additive Models (NAM) for tabular data, Graph Neural Additive Network (GNAN) extends the additive modeling approach to graph data to overcome limitations of GNNs. While being interpretable, GNAN representation learning overlooks the importance of local aggregation and more importantly suffers from parameter complexity. To mitigate the above challenges, we introduce Graph Neural Additive Model with Random Fourier Features (G-NAMRFF), a lightweight, self‐interpretable graph additive architecture. G-NAMRFF represents each node embedding as the sum of feature‐wise contributions where contributions are modeled via a Gaussian process (GP) with a graph- and feature-aware kernel. Specifically, we construct a kernel using Radial Basis Function (RBF) with graph structure induced by Laplacian and learnable Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter. We approximate the kernel using Random Fourier Features (RFFs) which transforms the GP prior to a Bayesian formulation, which are subsequently learnt using a single layer neural network with size equal to number of RFF features. G-NAMRFF is light weight with $168\times$ fewer parameters compared to GNAN. Despite its compact size, G-NAMRFF matches or outperforms state-of-the-art GNNs and GNAN on node and graph classification tasks, delivering real-time interpretability without sacrificing accuracy. Thummaluru Siddartha Reddy, Vempalli Naga Sai Saketh, Mahesh Chandran |
NeurIPS | 2 |