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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Rethinking GNNs and Missing Features: Challenges, Evaluation and a Robust Solution

Francesco Ferrini, Veronica Lachi, Antonio Longa +5

Handling missing node features is a key challenge for deploying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in real-world domains such as healthcare and sensor networks. Existing studies mostly a…

cs.LG2026

Hyperbolic Graph Neural Networks Under the Microscope: The Role of Geometry-Task Alignment

Dionisia Naddeo, Jonas Linkerhägner, Nicola Toschi +2

Many complex networks exhibit hierarchical, tree-like structures, making hyperbolic space a natural candidate wherein to learn representations of them. Based on this observation, H…

cs.LG2025

GNNs Meet Sequence Models Along the Shortest-Path: an Expressive Method for Link Prediction

Francesco Ferrini, Veronica Lachi, Antonio Longa +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle to capture the link-specific structural patterns crucial for accurate link prediction, as their node-centric message-passing schemes ove…

cs.LG2025

Bridging Theory and Practice in Link Representation with Graph Neural Networks

Veronica Lachi, Francesco Ferrini, Antonio Longa +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used to compute representations of node pairs for downstream tasks such as link prediction. Yet, theoretical understanding of their expressi…

cs.DB2025

Boosting Relational Deep Learning with Pretrained Tabular Models

Veronica Lachi, Antonio Longa, Beatrice Bevilacqua +3

Relational databases, organized into tables connected by primary-foreign key relationships, are a common format for organizing data. Making predictions on relational data often inv…