arXiv Machine Learning

PostDeg: Placement Beats Parameterization in LayerNorm GNNs

arXiv:2606. 14022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LayerNorm-based GNNs routinely erase the topology signals (degree, centrality, $k$-core) that node-selection policies should depend on, but the literature has not located where in the residual block the erasure happens.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Placing Degree Scales After LayerNorm

arXiv:2606. 14022v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used to learn node-selection policies on graphs, and most stack graph attention (GAT) blocks with LayerNorm.

By Yash Vardhan Tomar, Aryav Das
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Exact Network Surgery: Functional Invariance and Gradient Plasticity in Reactive Computational Graphs

arXiv:2607. 16568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function-preserving network growth techniques such as Net2Net and progressive stacking expand a model's capacity without destroying its learned function, but existing formulations either tolerate numerical perturbations or require a full rebuild of the training program.

By Abdallah Khemais (ISITCOM, University of Sousse)
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Capacity-Controlled Global Attention for Graph Transformers

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
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Federated Lightweight Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2607. 18343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning is bottlenecked by communication: FedAvg and pseudo-gradient schemes transmit a payload that scales with the model, and gradient compression shrinks it by only a constant factor.

By Radhakrishna Achanta, Will Reed