The paper introduces a moment-guided edge sampling framework that quantifies how local edge edits affect global graph structure using spectral moments of the random-walk transition matrix. Two complementary methods— a combinatorial closed‑form update for low‑order moments and a low‑rank approach exploiting locality and cyclic trace invariance— enable efficient computation of moment changes for single or batched edits. These moment changes serve as interpretable structural signatures, and preserving them is shown to retain key graph properties such as triangle‑weighted clustering, while also improving performance in supervised node classification and graph contrastive learning.
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