Deep learning models have emerged in machine learning and related fields, demonstrating astonishing performance in various visual tasks. Despite their great success, however, these models are unable to fully encode intrinsic visual structures, and often ignore the spatial, topological, and semantic information contained within an image.
arXiv:2608. 03696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work focuses on the problem of learning on temporal graphs, with particular emphasis on the task of clustering: obtaining coarse-grained representations by aggregating information from nodes, edges, and temporal dynamics - a task related to pooling in machine learning on graphs, or community detection in network science.
By Nelson Aloysio Reis de Almeida Passos, Emanuele Carlini, Salvatore Trani
The paper introduces the Echo Chamber Effect, a failure mode in Graph Neural Networks where intra-community representations collapse while inter-community separation remains, differing from traditional oversmoothing. It proposes the Echo Chamber Index (ECI) to detect this effect by stratifying pairwise distances by community membership. Building on this analysis, the authors present Community-Aware Split Propagation (CASP), a lightweight plugin that decouples intra- and inter-community aggregation and learns their balance from label structure, improving performance across various GNN backbones in both homophilic and heterophilic settings.
By Asela Hevapathige, Ahad N. Zehmakan, Asiri Wijesinghe, Saman Halgamuge
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:2605. 15511v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the dominant framework for inductive graph-level learning.
By Louisa Cornelis, Johan Mathe, Louis Van Langendonck, Guillermo Bern\'ardez, Nina Miolane
arXiv:2607. 05469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised graph clustering is a fundamental technique for uncovering underlying semantic patterns in large-scale networks.
By Jingyun Zhang, Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Angsheng Li, Philip S. Yu
arXiv:2604. 07492v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Message Passing Neural Networks have recently become the most popular approach to graph machine learning tasks; however, their receptive field is limited by the number of message passing layers.
By Oleg Platonov, Liudmila Prokhorenkova
arXiv:2606. 05046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Graph Cascades, a mesoscopic rewiring strategy for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers (GTs) that captures intermediate-scale graph structure beyond purely local edges or fully global attention.
By Meher Chaitanya, My Le, Luana Ruiz
arXiv:2510. 16311v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting consistent representations from graphs, independent of labeled information.
By Zhengyu Wu, Daohan Su, Yang Zhang, Xunkai Li, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang
arXiv:2606. 07700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Prediction of essential genes (proteins), is a basic and challenging problem but at the same time very costly and time-consuming in wet-lab experiments.
By Sahar Mansouri-Rad, Zahra Narimani, Parvin Razzaghi, Nazanin Hosseinkhan
The survey titled "When Vision Meets Graphs: A Survey on Graph Reasoning and Learning" reviews how visual depictions of graphs can be used as inputs for graph reasoning and learning. It highlights that while Graph Neural Networks dominate graph machine learning, most pipelines ignore the visual form of graphs, despite scientists routinely interpreting graphs visually. The paper organizes existing work into three threads—vision for graph reasoning, vision for graph learning, and scientific graphs—aiming to clarify current capabilities and chart a path toward foundation models that perceive and reason about graphs like scientists do.
By Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang, Zhixuan Yu, Xiangru Jian, Xiaozhuang Song, Yaoyao Xu, Zhongkai Xue, Dingshuo Chen, Shu Wu, Philip Torr, Tianshu Yu
arXiv:2505.11298v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning on structured data, yet the relationship between their expressivity and predictive per...
By Sohir Maskey, Raffaele Paolino, Fabian Jogl, Gitta Kutyniok, Johannes F. Lutzeyer