arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Geometry-Guided Generative Representation for Functional Brain Graphs

arXiv:2511. 04539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In network neuroscience, functional brain systems are often characterized using separate yet related graph-theoretic or spectral descriptors, overlooking how these properties covary and partially overlap across individuals and conditions.

By Subati Abulikemu, Tiago Azevedo, Michail Mamalakis, John Suckling
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

Implicit Feature Reweighting for Label-Free Graph Generalization

SCARCE is a label‑free representation‑learning framework that improves graph‑level out‑of‑distribution generalization. It uses an environment partition of training graphs—derived from metadata or self‑supervised clustering—to warm‑start a variational graph autoencoder and then applies an adversarial confusion mechanism that prevents a discriminator from distinguishing environments while preserving reconstruction fidelity. Theoretical analysis shows that this environment confusion contracts environment‑discriminative directions, effectively reweighting features to reduce reliance on spurious correlations, and experiments on synthetic and DrugOOD datasets demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art OOD performance among label‑free methods.

By Tianjun Yao, Chen Xi, Xinyang Li, Lixian Zhong