arXiv Machine Learning

Revisiting Simple Baselines for Relational Deep Learning

arXiv AI
Jun 9

What Makes a Desired Graph for Relational Deep Learning?

arXiv:2606. 08491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational deep learning (RDL) converts relational databases (RDBs) into heterogeneous graphs, but graphs derived directly from database schemas are often not well suited for how graph neural networks (GNNs) perform relational reasoning.

By Yao Cheng, Siqiang Luo
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 AI
Sep 18

MetaRTL: Meta-path Attention Enhanced Relational Table Learning

MetaRTL is a two-stage framework for relational table learning that first generates lightweight pre-trained table embeddings and then applies non‑parametric message passing to extract meta‑path features. These features are aggregated using an attention module called MetaAttn, shifting computation from deep GNN stacks to efficient meta‑path aggregation. Experiments on 10 real‑world datasets across 24 tasks show that MetaRTL achieves strong performance while reducing computational cost.

By Ken Zhong, Weichen Li, Zheng Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 4

OpenRFM: Dissecting Relational In-Context Learning

arXiv:2606. 04320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relational Foundation Models (RFMs) promise a single pre-trained predictor that, given any relational database, returns predictions in one forward pass via relational in-context learning (ICL).

By Zhikai Chen, Junyu Yin, Jialiang Gu, Siheng Xiong, Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Keren Zhou, Kai Guo