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5 papers

cs.LG2026

On the Token Collapse Phenomenon in Textual Graph Soft Prompting

Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Rishabh Jain, Franco Maria Nardini +3

Recent methods for injecting graph structure into LLM prompts include graph soft prompting, in which a graph neural network (GNN) learns graph-specific tokens that capture relation…

cs.LG2026

Early-Exit Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction

Roman Knyazhitskiy, Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco

Graph Neural Networks are great for link prediction in various network-like structures; however, the question of their speed/quality tradeoff has been barely studied. While in prac…

cs.LG2026

Differentiable Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Predicting Cellular Responses to Gene Perturbation

Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Andrea Rubbi, Pietro Liò +1

Predicting transcriptional responses to genetic perturbations is fundamental to functional genomics and therapeutic discovery. Recent deep learning models have shown promise in sin…

cs.IR2024

Cross-Document Neural Re-Ranking via Query-Induced Subgraphs

Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Christian Giannetti, Nicola Tonellotto +1

Neural re-rankers typically score query-document pairs independently, neglecting cross-document context within the retrieved candidate set. We propose Graph Neural Re-Ranking (GNRR…

cs.LG2024

Link Prediction with Physics-Inspired Graph Neural Networks

Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Francesco Caso, Maria Sofia Bucarelli +1

The message-passing mechanism underlying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is not naturally suited for heterophilic datasets, where adjacent nodes often have different labels. Most solu…