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In this paper, a novel approach for ASD recognition is proposed based on graph attention networks. Specifically, we treat the region of interest (ROI) of the subjects as node, conduct wavelet decomposition of the BOLD signal in each ROI, extract wavelet features, and utilize them along with the mean and variance of the BOLD signal as node features, and the optimized FC matrix as the adjacency matrix, respectively. We then employ the self-attention mechanism to capture long-range dependencies among features. To enhance interpretability, the node-selection pooling layers are designed to determine the importance of ROI for prediction. The proposed framework are applied to fMRI data of children (younger than 12\u2009years old) from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange datasets. Promising results demonstrate superior performance compared to recent similar studies. 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