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.
arXiv:2604.14211v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This thesis is an exposition of Ollivier-Ricci Curvature of metric spaces as introduced by Yann Ollivier, which is based upon the 1-Wasserste...
The paper introduces RicciPool, a graph pooling method that incorporates higher‑order connectivity via Ollivier‑Ricci curvature to reweight edges before spectral clustering. Unlike traditional pooling approaches that focus only on rough topology, RicciPool leverages local connection information to improve cluster assignment. Experiments on protein and social network datasets demonstrate its effectiveness.
The paper reviews the use of optimal transport for comparing undirected, unweighted graphs, focusing on three main distances: Wasserstein, Gromov-Wasserstein, and Bures-Wasserstein. It discusses closed-form solutions for the Wasserstein distance in one dimension, how transport plans identify influential nodes after perturbations, and derives spectral bounds for the Bures-Wasserstein distance to avoid full decompositions. The authors evaluate these distances on synthetic clustering data and a real-world time‑series network for anomaly detection.
arXiv:2607. 06497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce EntroPath, a manifold learning method that recovers geodesic geometry from data graphs through ensembles of diffusion paths.
The paper introduces Ricci-Diffusion, a graph denoising technique that uses curvature-guided diffusion inspired by Ricci flow. Unlike traditional similarity-driven methods, it modulates local transport in the diffusion kernel based on edge-level curvature, steering edge-weight updates toward a more regular graph geometry. The authors provide theoretical analysis showing curvature’s ability to distinguish graph structures and induce first-order corrections, and demonstrate that the method converges to a stable denoised network, improving structure recovery and downstream performance on real-world and synthetic graphs.
arXiv:2608.27500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Network comparison using optimal transport is a growing area of research in network science. Unlike standard graph metrics, optimal transport...
arXiv:2606. 24956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spectral graph neural networks (GNNs) interpret message passing as frequency-selective filtering.
Scaffold is a new unsupervised graph sparsification framework for graph neural networks that uses support graph theory preconditioners to jointly control dilation and congestion, thereby preserving short communication paths while avoiding bottlenecks. It achieves superior aggregate ranking across 19 homophilic and heterophilic benchmarks, recovering or closely approaching full‑graph GNN performance with only 10%–50% of the original edges. The method reduces memory usage to less than half and cuts end‑to‑end training time, including sparsification overhead.
The paper introduces a scalable subgraph sampling method that uses resistance curvature to guide the selection of nodes and edges for graph neural network training. It builds on ERC‑LG, a curvature approximation technique that employs Johnson‑Lindenstrauss projections and regularized multi‑GPU batched conjugate gradient solvers, thereby avoiding costly Laplacian pseudoinverse calculations and large embedding storage. Experiments demonstrate that ERC‑LG‑based sampling matches pseudoinverse‑based curvature numerically, runs faster than conjugate‑gradient‑only approaches, and achieves the best mean accuracy on six of seven real‑world node‑classification datasets.
arXiv:2608.28853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equivariant graph neural networks provide a principled way to model geometric systems, but efficient first-order architectures remain limited in how...
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:2607. 21607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks propagate information through local message passing, but the graph topologies themselves can silently prevent any amount of training from solving long-range tasks.