Dynamic Triangulation-Based Graph Rewiring for Graph Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19071v2
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:15:01 GMT
• Title: Dynamic Triangulation-Based Graph Rewiring for Graph Neural Networks
• Authors: Hugo Attali, Thomas Papastergiou, Nathalie Pernelle, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros,
• Abstract summary: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the leading paradigm for learning over graph-structured data.<n>Recent advances in graph rewiring aim to mitigate these limitations by modifying the graph topology to promote more effective information propagation.<n>We introduce TRIGON, a novel framework that constructs enriched, non-planar triangulations by learning to select relevant triangles from multiple graph views.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the leading paradigm for learning over graph-structured data. However, their performance is limited by issues inherent to graph topology, most notably oversquashing and oversmoothing. Recent advances in graph rewiring aim to mitigate these limitations by modifying the graph topology to promote more effective information propagation. In this work, we introduce TRIGON, a novel framework that constructs enriched, non-planar triangulations by learning to select relevant triangles from multiple graph views. By jointly optimizing triangle selection and downstream classification performance, our method produces a rewired graph with markedly improved structural properties such as reduced diameter, increased spectral gap, and lower effective resistance compared to existing rewiring methods. Empirical results demonstrate that TRIGON outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on node classification tasks across a range of homophilic and heterophilic benchmarks.

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