Graph Semi-Supervised Learning for Point Classification on Data Manifolds

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12197v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:52:54 GMT
• Title: Graph Semi-Supervised Learning for Point Classification on Data Manifolds
• Authors: Caio F. Deberaldini Netto, Zhiyang Wang, Luana Ruiz,
• Abstract summary: We propose a graph semi-supervised learning framework for classification tasks on data manifold.<n>Motivated by the manifold hypothesis, we model data as points sampled from a low-dimensional $mathcalM subset mathbbRF$.<n>We show that, under uniform sampling from $mathcalM$, the generalization gap of the semi-supervised task diminishes with increasing graph size.
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• Abstract: We propose a graph semi-supervised learning framework for classification tasks on data manifolds. Motivated by the manifold hypothesis, we model data as points sampled from a low-dimensional manifold $\mathcal{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^F$. The manifold is approximated in an unsupervised manner using a variational autoencoder (VAE), where the trained encoder maps data to embeddings that represent their coordinates in $\mathbb{R}^F$. A geometric graph is constructed with Gaussian-weighted edges inversely proportional to distances in the embedding space, transforming the point classification problem into a semi-supervised node classification task on the graph. This task is solved using a graph neural network (GNN). Our main contribution is a theoretical analysis of the statistical generalization properties of this data-to-manifold-to-graph pipeline. We show that, under uniform sampling from $\mathcal{M}$, the generalization gap of the semi-supervised task diminishes with increasing graph size, up to the GNN training error. Leveraging a training procedure which resamples a slightly larger graph at regular intervals during training, we then show that the generalization gap can be reduced even further, vanishing asymptotically. Finally, we validate our findings with numerical experiments on image classification benchmarks, demonstrating the empirical effectiveness of our approach.

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