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.
By Rachid Caich, Yassine Abbahaddou
arXiv:2604. 12211v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ollivier-Ricci curvature (ORC), defined via the Wasserstein distance that captures rich geometric information, has received growing attention in both theory and applications.
By Xiang Gu, Huichun Zhang, Jian Sun
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.
By James Hyun, Fran\c{c}ois G. Meyer
arXiv:2606. 17185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural network architectures based on the graph Laplacian approximate the Laplace-Beltrami operator, thus limiting their application to isotropic operators.
By T. Mitchell Roddenberry, Richard G. Baraniuk
arXiv:2203. 04711v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a framework for embedding graph structured data into a vector space, taking into account node features and topology of a graph into the optimal transport (OT) problem.
By Dai Hai Nguyen, Koji Tsuda
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.
By Ye Fang, Chuan-Xian Ren
arXiv:2607. 19305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks on manifold-valued representations have attracted growing interest, but many basic components remain tied to specific manifolds, rely on Euclidean approximations, or require costly and numerically fragile geometric operations.
By Chen Ziheng
arXiv:2607. 19305v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks on manifold-valued representations have attracted growing interest, but many basic components remain tied to specific manifolds, rely on Euclidean approximations, or require costly and numerically fragile geometric operations.
By Chen Ziheng
arXiv:2606. 16273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce, to our knowledge, the first deep generative modeling framework for probability distributions continuously supported on compact metric graphs.
By Alessandro Micheli, Yueqi Cao, Anthea Monod, Samir Bhatt
arXiv:2608. 07158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal graph learning has become essential for analyzing real-world systems whose interactions continuously evolve over time, including financial transaction networks, communication systems, and online social platforms.
By Poupak Azad, Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Kiarash Shamsi
arXiv:2606. 02223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating the generative mechanism of large-scale networks is a fundamental challenge in statistical machine learning.
By Charles Dufour, Ulysse Naepels, Leonardo V. Santoro
arXiv:2606. 14334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional datasets often concentrate near low-dimensional structures, but estimating their geometry from samples typically relies on graphs and kernels that scale poorly with dataset size and dimension.
By Jacob Bamberger, Adam Gosztolai, Pierre Vandergheynst, Michael Bronstein, Iolo Jones