arXiv Machine Learning

HOPE: Heterophily-Aware Open-Set Node Classification with Pseudo-Extrapolation

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 Machine Learning
Sep 11

SynCo: Synthetic Community-Aware Attributed Graph Generator for Graph Neural Network Benchmarking

SynCo is a synthetic graph generator that lets users control node degree distributions and sub‑community structures, addressing limitations of existing generators that rely on power‑law distributions and lack flexibility. It is evaluated on graph mimicking, hyperparameter tuning, and node clustering, outperforming state‑of‑the‑art methods while preserving original data distributions. SynCo can generate large graphs with up to 2.1 million nodes.

By Guilherme Henrique Messias, Mariana Caravanti de Souza, Sylvia Iasulaitis, Alan Dem\'etrius Baria Valejo
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Boundary Embedding Shaping with Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Graph Structural Disentanglement

arXiv:2606. 20283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel at aggregating neighbor information for classification, yet their performance is hindered by graph structural entanglement, where spurious correlations from semantically irrelevant neighbors contaminate node embeddings.

By Jiaqing Chen, Zidu Yin, Yichao Cai, Yuhang Liu, Zhen Zhang, Dong Gong, Javen Qinfeng Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

DeltaGNN: Graph Neural Network with Information Flow Control

DeltaGNN introduces an information flow control mechanism that uses a new connectivity measure, the information flow score, to mitigate over‑smoothing and over‑squashing in Graph Neural Networks. This approach enables linear computational and memory overhead while effectively capturing both short‑range and long‑range node interactions. Experiments on ten diverse real‑world datasets demonstrate superior performance with limited computational complexity.

By Kevin Mancini, Islem Rekik