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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Plain Transformers are Surprisingly Powerful Link Predictors

Quang Truong, Yu Song, Donald Loveland +4

Link prediction is a core challenge in graph machine learning, demanding models that capture rich and complex topological dependencies. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the s…

cs.IR2026

MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System

Weixin Chen, Yuhan Zhao, Jingyuan Huang +6

The evolution of recommender systems has shifted from traditional collaborative filtering to LLM-based agentic systems, which rely on semantic user and item memories to make predic…

cs.LG2026

Heuristic Methods are Good Teachers to Distill MLPs for Graph Link Prediction

Zongyue Qin, Shichang Zhang, Mingxuan Ju +3

Link prediction is a crucial graph-learning task with applications including citation prediction and product recommendation. Distilling Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) teachers into M…

cs.IR2025

Understanding and Scaling Collaborative Filtering Optimization from the Perspective of Matrix Rank

Donald Loveland, Xinyi Wu, Tong Zhao +3

Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods dominate real-world recommender systems given their ability to learn high-quality, sparse ID-embedding tables that effectively capture user pre…

cs.LG2025

Node Duplication Improves Cold-start Link Prediction

Zhichun Guo, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu +5

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are prominent in graph machine learning and have shown state-of-the-art performance in Link Prediction (LP) tasks. Nonetheless, recent studies show tha…

cs.LG2025

One Model for One Graph: A New Perspective for Pretraining with Cross-domain Graphs

Jingzhe Liu, Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen +6

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to capture intricate network patterns, achieving success across different domains. However, existing GNNs require caref…