Foundation models have sparked a revolution via a pretraining-adaptation paradigm, with recent efforts extending this success to graphs. Unlike other modalities, graphs contain rich structural patterns, yet their structural transferability remains poorly understood.
The paper introduces a compositional graph embedding framework based on Aitchison geometry, where nodes are represented as simplex-valued mixtures over latent archetypal factors. By embedding these mixtures using isometric log-ratio coordinates, the method preserves Aitchison distances while allowing unconstrained optimization in Euclidean space, yielding intrinsically interpretable embeddings. The approach achieves competitive performance on node classification and link prediction tasks and enables principled component restriction through subcompositional coherence, allowing analysis of how archetype groups influence representations and predictions.
By Nikolaos Nakis, Chrysoula Kosma, Panagiotis Promponas, Michail Chatzianastasis, Giannis Nikolentzos
The paper investigates how the choice of graph tokenization affects transformer expressivity. It analyzes three tokenization families—spectral, random‑walk, and adjacency—showing that each induces different depth requirements and that some tokenizations are inherently lossy or ill‑conditioned for certain tasks. The authors prove lower bounds and impossibility results for converting between tokenizations and validate these findings with experiments on synthetic and real‑world data.
By Maya Bechler-Speicher, Gilad Yehudai, Gil Harari, Clayton Sanford, Amir Globerson, Joan Bruna
arXiv:2608.28853v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Equivariant graph neural networks provide a principled way to model geometric systems, but efficient first-order architectures remain limited in how...
By Alessio Borgi, Mario Severino, Fabrizio Silvestri, Pietro Li\`o
arXiv:2602.15239v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Transformers have achieved remarkable success across domains, motivating the rise of Graph Transformers (GTs) as attention-based architectures for...
By Javier Porras-Valenzuela, Zhiyang Wang, Teresa Shang, Yusu Wang, Alejandro Ribeiro
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.
By Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun, Jiajin Liu, Qiaoyu Tan