The paper surveys collaborative learning methods that move beyond traditional Euclidean data to graph-structured data. It reviews foundational principles for Euclidean settings—learning effectiveness, efficiency, and privacy—and then extends the discussion to graph data, presenting a taxonomy of distribution scenarios, statistical heterogeneities, and standardized problem formulations. The survey also outlines open challenges and future research directions in this emerging field.
By R\'emi Bourgerie, \v{S}ar\=unas Girdzijauskas, Viktoria Fodor
arXiv:2606. 15277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based recommender systems are highly effective at extracting collaborative signals from user--item interactions, and federated learning (FL) allows these models to be trained while preserving user privacy.
By Thi Minh Chau Nguyen, Hien Trang Nguyen, Duc Anh Nguyen, Van Ho-Long, Thanh Trung Huynh, Zhao Ren
arXiv:2606. 03307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph foundation models (GFMs) emerged as a dominant paradigm in graph representation learning by leveraging large-scale pre-training for cross-domain inference.
By Yifan Jin, Qirui Ji, Bin Qin, Jiangmeng Li, Lixiang Liu, Fuchun Sun, Changwen Zheng
arXiv:2607. 08368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the widespread deployment of basic models in edge intelligence, communication bandwidth has become a core bottleneck restricting the scalability of federated learning.
By Lingyu Qiu, Daniela Annunziata, Stefano Izzo, Fabio Giampaolo, Francesco Piccialli
arXiv:2606. 06397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluation practices in relational learning rely heavily on flat leaderboards that average performance across heterogeneous datasets, implicitly assuming a uniform underlying structure.
By Shuo Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Quanxin Wang, Bailin Wu, Bokui Wang, Shunyang Huang, Boyan Deng, Haonan Liu, Ruiyi Fang, Zhenxiang Xu, Boyu Wang, Zhao Kang
With the widespread deployment of basic models in edge intelligence, communication bandwidth has become a core bottleneck restricting the scalability of federated learning. Although one-shot federated learning alleviates this problem by minimizing communication rounds, existing iterative fine-tuning or knowledge distillation methods still face challenges such as high server-side computational costs and hyperparameter sensitivity.
arXiv:2605. 11165v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) in heterogeneous environments remains challenging because client models often differ in both architecture and data distribution.
By Ben Rachmut, Luise Ge, William Yeoh, Ning Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
arXiv:2602.06859v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify irregular patterns in graph data, and recent works have explored zero-shot generalist GAD to e...
By Xinyu Zhao, Qingyun Sun, Jiayi Luo, Xingcheng Fu, Jianxin Li
arXiv:2512. 24625v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate traffic prediction is essential for Intelligent Transportation Systems, including ride-hailing, urban road planning, and vehicle fleet management.
By Zijian Zhao, Yitong Shang, Sen Li
arXiv:2609.02241v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) allows decentralized clients to train models collaboratively while preserving data privacy. However, distribution mismatch acro...
By Arun Kumar A V, Sunil Gupta, Dang Ngyuen, Bao Duong, Dat Phan Trong
arXiv:2608. 12108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping data local.
By Mirko Konstantin, Stefan Zachow, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
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