arXiv:2607. 24338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to derive meaningful node embeddings by capturing both structural and attribute information without relying on labeled data.
By Zengyi Wo, Shiyu Zhang, Qiyao Peng, Tianpeng Li, Xuan Guo
arXiv:2605.06462v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Progress in graph learning is hindered by benchmark practices that conflate the contributions of node features and graph structure, making it hard...
By Richard von Moos, Mathieu Alain, Bastian Rieck
The paper reinterprets graph neural networks (GNNs) as retrieval-augmented models, where each layer uses an MLP on a node representation and a permutation‑invariant summary of retrieved graph context instead of traditional message passing. It introduces RTA, a lightweight MLP‑based framework that replaces structural message passing with label‑aware retrieval and propagation, and provides theoretical links to softmax‑attention message passing and robustness to mis‑retrieved outliers. Experiments on text‑attributed graph benchmarks demonstrate that RTA matches or surpasses strong GNN and graph LLM baselines while improving efficiency and robustness.
By Jintang Li, Yuhong Chen, Ruofan Wu, Binli Luo, Jiayi Ji, Hui Li, Rongrong Ji
arXiv:2608. 04381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning on graphs is largely shaped by contrastive methods that depend on carefully designed augmentations, and by generative methods that reconstruct node attributes in the input space.
By Tinghe Zhang, Jian Xu, Jiaheng Chen, Jiaxing Li, Yucheng Xiao, Qiang Wang
arXiv:2609.36302v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision by leveraging universal vocabularies, Graph Machine Learnin...
By Ben Finkelshtein, Andr\'{e} Linhares, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'{c}, Bryan Perozzi, Mikhail Galkin
Training Graph Neural Networks on large graphs is challenged by the memory cost of storing all node representations across layers. We show that several existing scalable approaches can be written as structured modifications of the GNN propagation matrix, providing a unified perspective that exposes their respective limitations.
arXiv:2607. 19128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) provide a unified representation space for textual and visual information, yet their potential as general-purpose backbones for graph-structured data remains largely unexplored.
By Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun, Jiajin Liu, Qiaoyu Tan
The paper introduces three distance‑based graph autoencoder variants that add structural penalties to the reconstruction loss. All models use a two‑layer Graph Convolutional Network encoder and a Euclidean‑distance decoder, with two node‑level regularizers: a hub penalty based on degree centrality and a penalty based on Natural Community Local Intrinsic Dimensionality (NC‑LID). Experiments on multiple dynamic graph datasets show that incorporating NC‑LID regularization consistently improves reconstruction performance compared to baselines without structural regularization and to the hub‑aware variant.
By Aleksandar Tom\v{c}i\'c, Milo\v{s} Savi\'c, Milo\v{s} Radovanovi\'c
arXiv:2608. 02128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training Graph Neural Networks on large graphs is challenged by the memory cost of storing all node representations across layers.
By Antonin Joly, Nicolas Keriven, Aline Roumy
The paper introduces an unsupervised framework that merges manifold learning with rank‑based interpretable graph embeddings to address the Geometric and Interpretability Gaps in visual representation learning. By first analyzing contextual information on the dataset manifold and then producing sparse, self‑explainable embeddings, the method achieves dimensionality reduction while preserving or improving performance in image retrieval and semi‑supervised Graph Convolutional Network classification. Experiments across varied datasets confirm that these context‑aware representations maintain high downstream effectiveness.
By Thiago C\'esar Castilho Almeida, Gustavo Rosseto Let\'icio, Vinicius Atsushi Sato Kawai, Daniel Carlos Guimar\~aes Pedronette
The paper introduces Inductive Correlation Clustering, a new framework that uses Graph Neural Networks to solve the Correlation Clustering problem on unseen graph instances. By learning common structural patterns and node features, the method generalizes to new graphs with minimal computational overhead, achieving inference times up to five orders of magnitude faster while maintaining an approximation ratio within about 10% of the best baseline. It also demonstrates competitive performance on standard transductive benchmarks and serves as an efficient learnable pooling layer for graph classification tasks.
By Francesco Paolo Nerini, Francesco Bonchi, Arijit Khan, Andr\'e Panisson
The paper introduces a compositional graph embedding framework based on Aitchison geometry, where nodes are represented as simplex-valued mixtures over latent archetypal factors. By embedding these mixtures using isometric log-ratio coordinates, the method preserves Aitchison distances while allowing unconstrained optimization in Euclidean space, yielding intrinsically interpretable embeddings. The approach achieves competitive performance on node classification and link prediction tasks and enables principled component restriction through subcompositional coherence, allowing analysis of how archetype groups influence representations and predictions.
By Nikolaos Nakis, Chrysoula Kosma, Panagiotis Promponas, Michail Chatzianastasis, Giannis Nikolentzos