activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

Are We Measuring Oversmoothing in Graph Neural Networks Correctly?

Kaicheng Zhang, Piero Deidda, Desmond Higham +1

Oversmoothing is a fundamental challenge in graph neural networks (GNNs): as the number of layers increases, node embeddings become increasingly similar, and model performance drop…

physics.soc-ph2026

Generalized Friendship Paradoxes in Network Science

Desmond J. Higham, Francesco Hrobat, Francesco Tudisco

Generalized friendship paradoxes occur when, on average, our friends have more of some attribute than us. These paradoxes are relevant to many aspects of human interaction, notably…

cs.SI2025

Optimization of geometric hypergraph embedding

Francesco Zigliotto, Desmond J. Higham

We consider the problem of embedding the nodes of a hypergraph into Euclidean space under the assumption that the interactions arose through closeness to unknown hyperedge centres.…

cs.LG2025

Embedding Hidden Adversarial Capabilities in Pre-Trained Diffusion Models

Lucas Beerens, Desmond J. Higham

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiri…

cs.LG2024

The Boundaries of Verifiable Accuracy, Robustness, and Generalisation in Deep Learning

Alexander Bastounis, Alexander N. Gorban, Anders C. Hansen +5

In this work, we assess the theoretical limitations of determining guaranteed stability and accuracy of neural networks in classification tasks. We consider classical distribution-…

cs.AI2024

Stealth edits to large language models

Oliver J. Sutton, Qinghua Zhou, Wei Wang +4

We reveal the theoretical foundations of techniques for editing large language models, and present new methods which can do so without requiring retraining. Our theoretical insight…