Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for Transformers. Yet designing effective PEs for non-Euclidean graphs remains challenging.
arXiv:2606. 25293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for Transformers.
By Yipeng Zhang, Zhongtian Sun, Pietro Li\`o, Kelin Xia
The paper investigates Graph Transformers (GTs) that use Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based positional encodings. By analyzing GTs through manifold limit models, the authors establish a theoretical link between GTs and Manifold Neural Networks (MNNs), showing that GTs inherit transferability guarantees from their positional encodings. Experiments on standard graph benchmarks confirm that GTs scale comparably to GNNs, and a real‑world shortest‑path estimation task demonstrates their practical efficiency on large terrains.
By Javier Porras-Valenzuela, Zhiyang Wang, Teresa Shang, Yusu Wang, Alejandro Ribeiro
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:2509. 22259v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the extent to which rotary position encodings (RoPE), a recent transformer position encoding algorithm broadly adopted in large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers (ViTs), can be applied to graph-structured data.
By Isaac Reid, Arijit Sehanobish, Cederik H\"ofs, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Leonhard Vulpius, Federico Barbero, Adrian Weller, Krzysztof Choromanski, Richard E. Turner, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c
arXiv:2510. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate how embedding dimension affects the emergence of an internal "world model" in a transformer trained with reinforcement learning to perform bubble-sort-style adjacent swaps.
By Brady Bhalla, Honglu Fan, Nancy Chen, Tony Yue YU