The paper examines a multimodal approach that combines a self‑supervised GNN encoder with an alternating optimization scheme involving a language‑model teacher. Despite the expectation that this joint strategy would enhance predictive performance, the authors find that the combined model fails to deliver significant gains. They identify six key factors—ranging from anchor strength trade‑offs to misaligned representation spaces—that explain why the integration of text knowledge does not fully benefit graph learning.
arXiv:2605.10247v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to graph-structured data usually involves multi-step pipelines in which textual node attributes are compresse...
The paper introduces a feedforward graph architecture that uses several frozen large language models as computational nodes connected through a shared continuous latent space via learned linear projections. By jointly optimizing projection matrices through backpropagation, the system combines the representations of three small frozen models with two larger ones, culminating in a lightweight cross‑attention output node. With only 17.6 M trainable parameters, the architecture attains state‑of‑the‑art results on ARC‑Challenge, OpenBookQA, and MMLU, surpassing both individual constituent models and parameter‑matched learned classifiers.
arXiv:2606. 11583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) underlie real-world applications such as citation networks, social media, and e-commerce.
arXiv:2606. 12863v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal attributed graphs (MAGs) integrate graph topology with heterogeneous modality attributes, such as text and images, thereby enabling richer modeling of complex relational systems.
arXiv:2609.08709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing foundation models for graphs is challenging due to the irregular structure of graphs and the different sizes and characteristics of embedding...
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.
arXiv:2608. 04381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning on graphs is largely shaped by contrastive methods that depend on carefully designed augmentations, and by generative methods that reconstruct node attributes in the input space.
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).
The paper introduces PromptGFM, a Graph Foundation Model designed for text‑attributed graphs (TAGs). It integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) through a Graph Understanding Module that prompts LLMs to emulate GNN workflows, and a Graph Inference Module that creates a language‑based graph vocabulary for better alignment and scalability. Experiments show PromptGFM outperforms existing methods and transfers effectively across various graphs and tasks.
The paper extends mechanistic interpretability of large language models by modeling concepts as low‑dimensional non‑linear manifolds rather than linear subspaces. It introduces a concept‑based alignment (CBA) score to compare these manifolds across layers and models, revealing block structures in intermediate layers, a shift from syntax‑dominated to mixed syntactic‑semantic concepts, and training‑dependent multilingual sharing. The study also shows that alignment patterns differ across model families and training stages, with adjacent stages aligning more closely than distant ones.
arXiv:2606. 01873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-Aligner has emerged as a prevalent pre-training paradigm for Text-Attributed Graphs(TAGS), aligning graph and text modalities into a shared embedding space via CLIP-style contrastive learning.
arXiv:2607. 19128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) provide a unified representation space for textual and visual information, yet their potential as general-purpose backbones for graph-structured data remains largely unexplored.