IPC: A Benchmark Data Set for Learning with Graph-Structured Data

Benchmark data sets are an indispensable ingredient of the evaluation of graph-based machine learning methods. We release a new data set, compiled from International Planning Competitions (IPC), for benchmarking graph classification, regression, and related tasks. Apart fromthe graph construction (based on AI planning problems) that is interesting in its own right, the data set possesses distinctly different characteristics from popularly used benchmarks. The dataset, named IPC, consists of two self-contained versions, grounded and lifted, both including graphs of large and skewedly distributed sizes,posing substantial challenges for the computation of graph models such as graph kernels and graph neural networks. The graphs in this data set are directed and the lifted version is acyclic, offering the opportunity of benchmarking specialized models for directed (acyclic) structures. Moreover, the graph generator and the labelingare computer programmed; thus, the data set may be extended easily if a larger scale is desired.