arXiv:2601. 23207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding what graph neural networks can learn, especially their ability to learn to execute algorithms, remains a central theoretical challenge.
By Muhammad Fetrat Qharabagh, Artur Back de Luca, George Giapitzakis, Kimon Fountoulakis
Transferable Graph Metanetworks extend the graph metanetwork paradigm to predict properties of neural networks of varying widths. By enforcing invariance to width-dependent representations and continuity across similar functions, the proposed modifications enable robust size generalization, especially for networks trained under the maximal‑update parameterization (μP) up to 42× the training width. The authors provide empirical evidence across multiple tasks and theoretical guarantees in the infinite‑width limit, explaining both successes and limitations under different parameterizations.
By Yuxin Ma, Adir Dayan, Yam Eitan, Haggai Maron, Soledad Villar
The paper introduces “GraphPDHG,” a message‑passing neural network that aligns with the Chambolle‑Pock Primal–Dual Hybrid Gradient algorithm to solve general graph saddle‑point problems. The authors prove that “GraphPDHG” can efficiently simulate PDHG and can learn an accelerated version of the algorithm. Experiments demonstrate that the learned warm start improves second‑order optimizers and that alignment with PDHG yields better size generalization compared to standard GNN baselines.
By Samantha Chen, Jesse He, Coleman Clougherty, Gal Mishne, Chester Holtz
arXiv:2510. 10101v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding the interplay between generalization, expressivity, and the geometry of the input space is a central challenge in graph learning.
By Martin Carrasco, Caio F. Deberaldini Netto, Vahan A. Martirosyan, Ehimare Okoyomon, Caterina Graziani
arXiv:2607. 20811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In spite of the fundamental role of neural networks in contemporary machine learning research, our understanding of the computational complexity of optimally training neural networks remains incomplete even when dealing with the simplest kinds of activation functions.
By Cornelius Brand, Robert Ganian, Mathis Rocton
arXiv:2512. 01113v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic reasoning -- the ability to perform step-by-step logical inference -- is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating multi-step reasoning abilities, designed for graph neural networks and also for transformer models.
By Dongyue Li, Zhenshuo Zhang, Minxuan Duan, Edgar Dobriban, Hongyang R. Zhang
arXiv:2602. 06737v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a generalized framework for the range verification of neural networks featuring non-linear activation functions.
By Noah Schwartz, Chandra Kanth Nagesh, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Ramneet Kaur, Tuhin Sahai, Susmit Jha
arXiv:2507. 05164v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this chapter, we utilize dynamical systems to analyze several aspects of machine learning algorithms.
By Dennis Chemnitz, Maximilian Engel, Christian Kuehn, Sara-Viola Kuntz
In spite of the fundamental role of neural networks in contemporary machine learning research, our understanding of the computational complexity of optimally training neural networks remains incomplete even when dealing with the simplest kinds of activation functions. Indeed, while there has been a number of very recent results that establish ever-tighter lower bounds for the problem under linear and ReLU activation functions, less progress has been made towards the identification of novel polynomial-time tractable network architectures.
arXiv:2606. 26705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feedforward neural network (NN) expressivity is typically studied by emulating optimal basis-expansion schemes.
By Anastasis Kratsios, Simone Brugiapaglia, Bum Jun Kim, Gregory Cousins, Haitz S\'aez de Oc\'ariz Borde
arXiv:2311. 07073v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph-based message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) have achieved remarkable success in both node and graph-level learning tasks.
By Dai Shi, Andi Han, Lequan Lin, Yi Guo, Junbin Gao
arXiv:2509. 18930v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural algorithmic reasoning (NAR) is a paradigm that trains neural networks to execute classic algorithms by supervised learning.
By Alex Schutz, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Efimia Panagiotaki, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes