arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 7

Complementary Supervised and Self-Supervised Representations for Out-of-Distribution Graph Learning

The paper investigates how self‑supervised graph representations can complement supervised ones for out‑of‑distribution (OOD) node classification. Two backbone‑agnostic frameworks are introduced: Co‑Train, which jointly learns and integrates supervised and SSL representations during training, and Dual‑Space Retrieval, which performs non‑parametric prediction in both representation spaces and fuses the results at inference. Experiments on four graph benchmarks with various GNN backbones and SSL objectives (DGI and GRACE) show that Co‑Train consistently outperforms strong supervised OOD baselines, while Dual‑Space Retrieval offers competitive, flexible performance, demonstrating that SSL provides complementary signals that improve OOD node classification.

By Qingying Hao, Zikang Chen, Chuxuan Hu, Jinyuan Jia, Bo Li, Gang Wang, Carl Gunter
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

PreGS: A Parameter-Transfer-Based Multi-Expert Graph Neural Network for Node Classification

PreGS is a multi-expert graph neural network that uses parameter transfer from a pre‑trained multi‑head GAT to freeze GraphSAGE experts, creating complementary structural branches. The model fuses raw node features, GAT head outputs, and expert representations through an MLP, then combines the result with pretrained GAT logits. An extended version, PreGSv2, adds source‑level weighting and a structural gating mechanism for adaptive feature integration, and both variants outperform several baseline GNNs on eight public datasets.

By Zhicong Cai, Yinglong Zhang, Xiaoying Hong, Xuewen Xia, Xing Xu