Lecture derives R-GCN's 4.75M-parameter bill and a 14.7× basis-decomposition fix

JeremyCMorgan · x · 2026-11-06

A GNN course lecture on heterogeneous graphs: it hand-derives a 4.75M-parameter relational GCN to show how relation types explode model complexity, then covers basis and block-diagonal decompositions (basis trick cuts parameters 14.7×), attention-based models (HAN metapaths, HGT typed attention), and an honest encoder–decoder KG-completion showdown (R-GCN + DistMult vs shallow embeddings, same decoder and eval). Useful math before committing to a GNN architecture.

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