The paper investigates how sparsity impacts the expressivity of graph neural networks, focusing on relational and temporal variants. It extends the Strong Expressive Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to multi-relational and temporal domains, proving that sufficiently large RGNNs contain sparse subnetworks that preserve 1‑RWL expressivity and providing a probabilistic bound for random pruning. Experiments validate the theoretical bounds, compare them to empirical results on synthetic data, and explore the relationship between pre‑training expressivity, optimization behavior, and prediction quality on temporal and molecular benchmarks.
arXiv:2602. 14239v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting links in sparse, continuously evolving networks is a central challenge in network science.
By Nafiseh Sadat Sajadi, Behnam Bahrak, Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani
arXiv:2606. 08491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational deep learning (RDL) converts relational databases (RDBs) into heterogeneous graphs, but graphs derived directly from database schemas are often not well suited for how graph neural networks (GNNs) perform relational reasoning.
By Yao Cheng, Siqiang Luo
arXiv:2507.07138v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle to capture the link-specific structural patterns crucial for accurate link prediction, as their node-ce...
By Francesco Ferrini, Veronica Lachi, Antonio Longa, Bruno Lepri, Andrea Passerini
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:2602.13106v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding neural architectures' ability to learn to execute discrete algorithms, a li...
By Solveig Wittig, Antonis Vasileiou, Robert R. Nerem, Timo Stoll, Floris Geerts, Yusu Wang, Christopher Morris
Graph Hierarchical Recurrence (GHR) is a new framework that enhances Graph Neural Networks and Graph Transformers by jointly processing the input graph and a pooled hierarchical abstraction. It addresses the limitation of existing models in handling predictions that depend on correlations between distant graph regions, especially under out-of-range generalization where test instances require interactions beyond training distances. Across many long-range benchmarks, GHR consistently improves performance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art or competitive results on multiple tasks.
By Stefano Carotti, Marco Pacini, Alessio Gravina, Davide Bacciu, Bruno Lepri, Sebastiano Bontorin
Bridge-LP is a new framework for link prediction on text‑attributed graphs that combines Graph Neural Networks and Language Models. It introduces three design components: jumping connections for robust language model training, compressed embeddings to encode neighborhood information, and a cache embedding strategy to reduce computational cost. Experiments on nine datasets show that Bridge‑LP outperforms 40 existing models, achieving up to a 43.06% improvement in Mean Reciprocal Rank.
By Chen Shao, Ruirui Wang, Tobias Kafer, Danai Koutra
arXiv:2609.37057v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Achieving strong performance with graph neural networks (GNNs) typically requires training and hyperparameter tuning for each dataset, incurring repeat...
By Dooho Lee, Jinmo Lee, Minho Jeong, Kijung Shin, Jaemin Yoo
arXiv:2602. 01553v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Link prediction is a core challenge in graph machine learning, demanding models that capture rich and complex topological dependencies.
By Quang Truong, Yu Song, Donald Loveland, Mingxuan Ju, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang
The paper introduces SLM-Conditioned Hierarchical Relation Routing, a graph neural network architecture that incorporates a small language model to guide message selection in labeled property graphs. It combines structural states, node and relationship property encodings, and relationship types into messages, then uses a parameter‑efficient language model to generate target‑conditioned routing queries that filter relevant messages and route information across relation‑level summaries. The resulting representation updates a topology anchor with bounded residuals, preserving structural evidence while allowing contextual semantic information to influence predictions, and offers interpretable analysis at both neighbor and relationship‑type levels.
By Michal Podstawski
arXiv:2610.20534v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Relational deep learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning end-to-end predictive models over relational databases by representing them as...
By Viet The Nguyen, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Gunther Gust