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most citedNN-Steiner: A Mixed Neural-algorithmic Approach for the Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree Problem

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cs.LG2026

Looped GNNs Beyond Fixed Depth: Graph Size Generalization and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation

Zhiyang Wang, Zhishang Luo, Yusu Wang

Generalizing from small graphs to larger ones can require computation beyond the depth of a neural model used during training. We study target tasks that admit a common local itera…

cs.LG2026

Size-Transferability of Graph Transformers with Convolutional Positional Encodings

Javier Porras-Valenzuela, Zhiyang Wang, Xiaotao Shang +3

Transformers have achieved remarkable success across domains, motivating the rise of Graph Transformers (GTs) as attention-based architectures for graph-structured data. A key desi…

cs.LG2026

Which Algorithms Can Graph Neural Networks Learn?

Solveig Wittig, Antonis Vasileiou, Robert R. Nerem +4

In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding neural architectures' ability to learn to execute discrete algorithms, a line of work often referred to as neural…

cs.LG2025

Graph neural networks extrapolate out-of-distribution for shortest paths

Robert R. Nerem, Samantha Chen, Sanjoy Dasgupta +1

Neural networks (NNs), despite their success and wide adoption, still struggle to extrapolate out-of-distribution (OOD), i.e., to inputs that are not well-represented by their trai…

cs.DS2024

Differentiable Extensions with Rounding Guarantees for Combinatorial Optimization over Permutations

Robert R. Nerem, Zhishang Luo, Akbar Rafiey +1

Continuously extending combinatorial optimization objectives is a powerful technique commonly applied to the optimization of set functions. However, few such methods exist for exte…

cs.AI2023★ 2 cited

NN-Steiner: A Mixed Neural-algorithmic Approach for the Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree Problem

Andrew B. Kahng, Robert R. Nerem, Yusu Wang +1

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in the use of neural networks to solve combinatorial optimization problems. Nevertheless, designing the "right" neural model that can eff…