The paper introduces an asynchronous message‑passing framework for Graph Neural Networks to mitigate oversquashing, a problem where distant nodes cannot effectively communicate due to structural bottlenecks. Unlike conventional synchronous updates, the method updates a centrality‑guided batch of nodes at each layer, allowing information to propagate sequentially and reducing the need for increased channel capacity. Experiments on six standard and two long‑range graph classification benchmarks show notable performance gains, including 5 % improvement on REDDIT‑BINARY and 4 % on Peptides‑struct.
By Kushal Bose, Swagatam Das
arXiv:2606. 03068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Virtual Nodes (VNs) are often utilized in Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) to facilitate effective message passing, existing VN-based methods have limitations, such as constraining all nodes to connect to the same number of VNs, fixing the connections before applying MPNNs, and connecting a node to a VN independently of the other nodes that connect to the same VN.
By Jaejun Lee, Joyce Jiyoung Whang
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:2602.13106v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding neural architectures' ability to learn to execute discrete algorithms, a li...
By Solveig Wittig, Antonis Vasileiou, Robert R. Nerem, Timo Stoll, Floris Geerts, Yusu Wang, Christopher Morris
arXiv:2511. 11046v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become an indispensable tool for analyzing relational data.
By Brian Godwin Lim, Galvin Brice Lim, Renzo Roel Tan, Irwin King, Kazushi Ikeda
DeltaGNN introduces an information flow control mechanism that uses a new connectivity measure, the information flow score, to mitigate over‑smoothing and over‑squashing in Graph Neural Networks. This approach enables linear computational and memory overhead while effectively capturing both short‑range and long‑range node interactions. Experiments on ten diverse real‑world datasets demonstrate superior performance with limited computational complexity.
By Kevin Mancini, Islem Rekik
arXiv:2601. 23207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding what graph neural networks can learn, especially their ability to learn to execute algorithms, remains a central theoretical challenge.
By Muhammad Fetrat Qharabagh, Artur Back de Luca, George Giapitzakis, Kimon Fountoulakis
arXiv:2603. 06952v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods.
By Yuhang Song, Naima Abrar Shami, Romaric Duvignau, Vasiliki Kalavri
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:2609.37057v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Achieving strong performance with graph neural networks (GNNs) typically requires training and hyperparameter tuning for each dataset, incurring repeat...
By Dooho Lee, Jinmo Lee, Minho Jeong, Kijung Shin, Jaemin Yoo
The paper extends the Strong Expressive Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to relational and temporal graph neural networks by proving that sufficiently large RGNNs contain sparse subnetworks preserving 1‑relational Weisfeiler‑Leman expressivity. It derives a probabilistic lower bound for random pruning to achieve such subnetworks and shows that common TGNNs and cross‑graph message passing can be reformulated as RGNNs to inherit these guarantees. Experiments validate the bound, compare it to empirical probabilities on synthetic data, and explore the relationship between pre‑training expressivity, optimization behavior, and prediction quality on temporal and molecular benchmarks.
By Lorenz Kummer, Samir Moustafa, Anatol Ehrlich, Franka Bause, Marco Nennstiel, Przemys{\l}aw Andrzej Wa{\l}\c{e}ga, Nils Morten Kriege
arXiv:2501.08547v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely adopted for their ability to compute expressive node representations in graph datasets. However...
By Geon-Woo Kim, Donghyun Kim, Jeongyoon Moon, Henry Liu, Tarannum Khan, Anand Iyer, Daehyeok Kim, Aditya Akella