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Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion for Unsupervised Community Detection on Heterophilic Graphs

arXiv:2606. 30249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting communities in heterophilic graphs -- where connected nodes often belong to different classes -- is hard for unsupervised methods: classical modularity and spectral methods are feature agnostic, while deep graph-clustering methods rely on contrastive or generative machinery that is opaque.

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Jun 29

Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion for Unsupervised Community Detection on Heterophilic Graphs

Detecting communities in heterophilic graphs -- where connected nodes often belong to different classes -- is hard for unsupervised methods: classical modularity and spectral methods are feature agnostic, while deep graph-clustering methods rely on contrastive or generative machinery that is opaque. We propose Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion (CGSD), a fully unsupervised community-detection algorithm that uses the discrete Forman--Ricci curvature of each edge as its single topological signal, propagated through every stage of an end-to-end pipeline.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Local-Global Geometric Insights for Graph Neural Networks via Entropic Curvature

arXiv:2607. 22381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Curvature notions on graphs, particularly Ollivier-Ricci and Forman, have emerged as powerful tools for addressing fundamental issues in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) such as oversmoothing and oversquashing, but rely almost exclusively on local edge-level comparisons and therefore fail to certify how information actually propagates over long distances.

By Rachid Caich, Yassine Abbahaddou
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

CurvFlow-DTA: dual-graph discrete Ricci curvature flow for drug--target affinity prediction

CurvFlow-DTA introduces a dual-graph discrete Ricci curvature flow framework for drug–target affinity prediction, replacing static curvature with weighted Forman curvature flow on both drug and protein residue–residue contact graphs. The method precomputes a label‑independent flow trajectory for each entity and uses a pair‑conditioned selector to guide a dual‑branch Flow‑GINE, leveraging frozen ESM‑2 residue representations. Experiments on Davis and KIBA datasets show significant improvements over the Ricci‑GraphDTA baseline, with reductions in mean squared error of up to 19.9% in warm‑start and 27.4% in cold‑start settings, and higher concordance indices across benchmarks.

By Jicheng Ma, Yunyan Yang, Juan Zhao, Liang Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Omega-N: Interpretable Structural Node Descriptors and Their Applicability Domain

The paper introduces Omega‑N, a set of ten interpretable node‑level structural descriptors derived from localizing four factors of a composite structural index. By correcting the ill‑conditioned localization with a configuration‑null excess and a multi‑scale personalized‑PageRank neighbourhood, Omega‑N achieves competitive or superior performance in six in‑domain node‑classification tasks compared to a recursive feature engine that uses up to 252 features. In drug‑target prioritisation on protein interaction networks, Omega‑N improves AUPRC by 0.073 to 0.144 over a centrality baseline and remains robust across independent datasets and bias controls, though it offers no benefit when combined with Node2Vec. whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates that a compact, interpretable set of structural features can match or exceed more complex feature sets in practical graph‑based prediction tasks, particularly in biomedical network analysis."

By Alberto Acedo