arXiv Machine Learning

Freeze, Prompt, and Adapt: A Framework for Source-free Unsupervised GNN Prompting

arXiv:2505. 16903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prompt tuning has become a key mechanism for adapting pre-trained Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to new downstream tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

MUGEN: Generating Unlearnable Graph Examples for Multiple Learning Tasks

MUGEN is a framework that generates unlearnable graph examples capable of protecting multiple downstream tasks—node classification, graph classification, and link prediction—simultaneously. It achieves this by perturbing a single clean dataset with a shared GNN encoder and task‑specific heads, guided by a Task‑Aligned Separability Objective (TASO) and a Type‑Adaptive Perturbation (TAP) that handles both discrete and continuous node attributes. Experiments on five benchmarks, four GNN backbones, and three learning paradigms show that MUGEN’s perturbations transfer across models and remain effective even under adversarial training and data augmentation.

By Ziyan Liu, Chengshuai Zhao, Huan Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Guided Prompt Evolution for Vision-Language Models Adaptation

The paper introduces EvoPrompt, a framework for adapting vision‑language models to new tasks with limited data while preventing catastrophic forgetting. EvoPrompt uses a Modality‑Shared Prompt Projector to create hierarchical prompts and an evolutionary training strategy that separates low‑rank updates into directional and magnitude components, preserving learned semantic directions. Experiments show that EvoPrompt achieves state‑of‑the‑art few‑shot performance while maintaining the original zero‑shot capabilities of the pre‑trained models.

By Enming Zhang, Jiayang Li, Yanlong Wang, Yanru Wu, Zhenyu Liu, Yang Li
arXiv AI
Aug 17

Overcoming Shortcut Learning in Graph Neural Networks through Active Explanation Guidance

arXiv:2608. 14121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can solve prediction tasks by unintentionally exploiting shortcuts---that is, edges, nodes, and features that correlate with but are not causal for the prediction---which compromise their reliability in out-of-distribution tasks.

By Taraneh Younesian, Steve Azzolin, Antonio Longa, Francesco Ferrini, Vincenzo Marco De Luca, Stefano Teso
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Task-Specific Prompt with Global Context for Multi-Task Graph Pre-Training

The paper introduces TPGC, a dual-prior prompt initialization method for multi-task graph pre-training. It first uses a Task-Prior Injection Module to pre-train prompts on an auxiliary graph, then a Structure-Prior Injection Module to embed global structural context into layer-wise prompt vectors. Experiments on six node and graph classification benchmarks show that TPGC outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines in few‑shot settings while requiring fewer tunable parameters and less runtime.

By Zhiyang Qiu, Yangtao Wang, Xiaocui Li, Yanzhao Xie, Siyuan Chen, Wensheng Zhang