arXiv Machine Learning

EDiS: Edge Disjoint Subgraph Sparsification Framework for Graph Neural Networks

The paper introduces EDiS, an Edge‑Disjoint Subgraph sparsification framework that separates a one‑time structural extraction of a graph into cacheable edge‑disjoint subgraphs from the per‑epoch graph composition. By recombining these cached subgraphs under edge‑budget constraints, EDiS avoids repeated sampling or recomputation while allowing varying training graphs across epochs. Experiments on 19 node‑classification benchmarks show that EDiS outperforms 17 baselines in accuracy/ROC‑AUC, achieving the lowest average rank and gap‑to‑best, especially at tight edge budgets.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

Scaffold: Support Graph Theory Based Sparsification for Graph Neural Networks

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.

By Siddhartha Shankar Das, Sai Karthik Navuluru, S M Ferdous, Ryan A. Rossi, Baris Coskunuzer, Lakshman Tamil, Edoardo Serra, Alex Pothen, Robert Rallo, Mahantesh M Halappanavar
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

MetaSieve: Faster Relational Deep Learning through SQL-Based Metapath Selection

MetaSieve is a metapath selection layer that reduces subgraph size in relational deep learning by pruning uninformative metapaths using SQL join and aggregation statistics. It scores candidate metapath extensions with a lightweight function that favors informative yet lightweight paths, discarding those below a threshold. The method is independent of GNN parameters and, when applied to the RelBench benchmark, consistently cuts per‑epoch training time while preserving or improving accuracy.

By Fahim Shahriar Khan, Ashraf Aboulnaga
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Selecting Samples on Graphs: A Unified Dataset Pruning Framework for Lossless Training Acceleration

arXiv:2606. 12913v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid growth of modern training datasets has significantly increased computational cost, motivating dataset pruning~(DP) methods which retain only a subset of informative samples to reduce training cost.

By Dongyue Wu, Zilin Guo, Xiaoyu Li, Jiajia Liu, Jingdong Chen, Nong Sang, Changxin Gao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

SiST-GNN: Simultaneous Spatial-Temporal Message Passing for Dynamic Graph Representation Learning

SiST‑GNN introduces a simultaneous spatial‑temporal message‑passing framework for dynamic graph neural networks, fusing per‑node temporal embeddings with spatial aggregation in a single operation. By maintaining a recurrent hidden state per node and treating it as a cross‑time edge, the model jointly reasons over topology and evolution. Experiments on link‑prediction and node‑classification benchmarks show significant improvements over prior methods, achieving up to 158% gains in live‑update link prediction and outperforming discrete‑time baselines by 7–23% in dynamic node classification.

By Shubhajit Roy, Anirban Dasgupta
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Handling Feature Heterogeneity with Learnable Graph Patches

arXiv:2606. 17667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, the rapid development of foundation models and graph pre-training technologies has spurred increasing interest in constructing a universal pre-trained graph model or Graph Foundation Model (GFM).

By Yifei Sun, Yang Yang, Xiao Feng, Zijun Wang, Haoyang Zhong, Chunping Wang, Lei Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

GraphInfer-Bench: Benchmarking LLM's Inference Capability on Graphs

arXiv:2606. 11562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph analysis underlies many applications whose answers cannot be looked up in a single record or retrieved along a path: laundering rings, drug repurposing, user preference, and scientific theme are all inferred from a node together with its neighbourhood.

By Zhuoyi Peng, Jingzhou Jiang, Hanlin Gu, Lixin Fan, Yi Yang