arXiv:2604. 17324v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Global self-attention drives modern graph transformers, yet the softmax at its core imposes a structural constraint rarely examined directly: every attention row is non-negative and sums to one, so each per-head output is a mass-conserving convex combination of value vectors.
By Yang Liu, Dongxin Guo, Tom Zheng, Siu Ming Yiu, Liam Ning, Jikun Wu
Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) iteratively propagate and aggregate local neighborhood information followed by global readout to learn graph representations. However, their discriminative...
The paper investigates how the choice of graph tokenization affects transformer expressivity. It analyzes three tokenization families—spectral, random‑walk, and adjacency—showing that each induces different depth requirements and that some tokenizations are inherently lossy or ill‑conditioned for certain tasks. The authors prove lower bounds and impossibility results for converting between tokenizations and validate these findings with experiments on synthetic and real‑world data.
By Maya Bechler-Speicher, Gilad Yehudai, Gil Harari, Clayton Sanford, Amir Globerson, Joan Bruna
arXiv:2606. 03712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Language Models (GLMs) have become a promising direction for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to graph learning tasks.
By Ding Zhang, Runtao Zhou, Wenqing Zheng, Rizal Fathony, Bayan Bruss, Chirag Agarwal
arXiv:2607. 02603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The stable coloring of the Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) test is a cornerstone of Graph Neural Networks because it provides an upper bound to the expressive power of message-passing architectures.
By Filippo Biondi, Mirco Tribastone, Max Tschaikowski
arXiv:2609.17061v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) iteratively propagate and aggregate local neighborhood information followed by global readout to learn g...
By Sanyam Sanjay Jain, Anshika Krishnatray, Aditya Sharma, Vinti Agarwal
HyPE-GT introduces a framework that generates learnable hyperbolic positional encodings for Graph Transformers, enabling the capture of complex hierarchical relationships in graph-structured data. Unlike traditional Euclidean encodings, HyPE’s hyperbolic encodings can be selected to suit specific downstream tasks and help mitigate oversmoothing in deep Graph Neural Networks. Experiments on molecular benchmarks and large-scale Open Graph Benchmark datasets demonstrate improved performance, while additional tests on Coauthor and Copurchase networks confirm HyPE’s effectiveness in controlling oversmoothing.
By Kushal Bose, Swagatam Das
arXiv:2510. 04567v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for processing relational data but often struggle to generalize to unseen graphs, giving rise to the development of Graph Foundational Models (GFMs).
By Weishuo Ma, Yanbo Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Lei Zou, Muhan Zhang
arXiv:2603. 02462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A key challenge in developing unified neural solvers for combinatorial optimization (CO) is the efficient generalization of models from a given set of tasks to new tasks unseen during initial training.
By Semih Cant\"urk, Thomas Sabourin, Frederik Wenkel, Michael Perlmutter, Guy Wolf
The paper shows that a plain Transformer can serve as an effective graph learner by adding three lightweight modifications: simplified L₂ attention, adaptive RMS normalization, and an MLP-based positional encoding stem. These changes preserve token magnitude and enable the model to achieve high expressivity on graph benchmarks, outperforming more complex graph transformer variants. The results suggest that plain Transformers can act as a unified backbone for multimodal learning across language, vision, and graph domains.
By Liheng Ma, Soumyasundar Pal, Yingxue Zhang, Philip H. S. Torr, Mark Coates
arXiv:2609.01441v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNN) based on message passing are provably no more powerful than the one-dimensional Weisfeiler--Leman colour-refinement test (1...
By Lilian Marey, Charlotte Laclau
arXiv:2607. 01553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers have become general-purpose architectures, but their all-to-all self-attention is poorly matched to graph data, whose interactions are sparse, structured and multi-scale.
By Leyan Li, Rennong Yang, Zhenxing Zhang, Liping Hu