Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) has become a critical research problem in recent years. A typical example of a TAG is a paper citation graph, where the text of each paper serves as node attributes. Most graph neural network (GNN) pipelines handle these text attributes by transforming them into shallow or hand-crafted features, such as skip-gram or bag-of-words features. Recent efforts have focused on enhancing these pipelines with language models. With the advent of powerful large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, which demonstrate an ability to reason and to utilize general knowledge, there is a growing need for techniques which combine the textual modelling abilities of LLMs with the structural learning capabilities of GNNs. Hence, in this work, we focus on leveraging LLMs to capture textual information as features, which can be used to boost GNN performance on downstream tasks. A key innovation is our use of \emph{explanations as features}: we prompt an LLM to perform zero-shot classification and to provide textual explanations for its decisions, and find that the resulting explanations can be transformed into useful and informative features to augment downstream GNNs. Through experiments we show that our enriched features improve the performance of a variety of GNN models across different datasets. Notably, we achieve top-1 performance on \texttt{ogbn-arxiv} by a significant margin over the closest baseline even with $2.88\times$ lower computation time, as well as top-1 performance on TAG versions of the widely used \texttt{PubMed} and \texttt{Cora} benchmarks~\footnote{Our codes and datasets are available at: \url{https://github.com/XiaoxinHe/TAPE}}.

该论文的主要研究方向是在图神经网络中利用自然语言处理模型来提高文本理解能力，并将其作为图结构的特征以提高下游任务的性能。通过在多个数据集上的实验证明，采用该方法在一定程度上提升了图神经网络模型的表现。

将解释作为特征：基于LLM的文本属性图特征