Navigating Hierarchy: Hyperbolic Learning on Brain Graphs for Disorder Diagnosis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07077v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:08:50 GMT
• Title: Navigating Hierarchy: Hyperbolic Learning on Brain Graphs for Disorder Diagnosis
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel framework, termed Hyperbolic Learning on Brain Graphs (HLBG), for brain network analysis.<n>HLBG is inspired by deep hyperbolic learning in modeling hierarchical structures.<n> Experiments on ABIDE-I and REST-MDD demonstrate that HLBG outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
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• Abstract: Functional brain networks exhibit a hierarchical organization across ROI, community, and whole-brain levels, supporting local processing, inter-community coordination, and global integration. Recent studies have demonstrated that brain community-aware modeling is beneficial for both diagnosis and biomarker identification of brain networks. However, existing brain graph modeling methods often struggle to model ROI-community interactions, thereby failing to fully exploit the hierarchy across ROI, community, and whole-brain network levels. To address this issue, inspired by deep hyperbolic learning in modeling hierarchical structures, we propose a novel framework, termed Hyperbolic Learning on Brain Graphs (HLBG), for brain network analysis. The core idea of HLBG is to exploit the inherent hierarchical geometry of hyperbolic space to model the hierarchical relationships among ROIs, functional communities, and the whole-brain network, thereby learning hierarchy-aware and highly discriminative representations for brain network data. Specifically, HLBG first projects representations from ROIs, communities, and the whole-brain network into Lorentzian hyperbolic space. Then, the multi-level hierarchy is imposed via two geometric entailment constraints. In addition, we introduce a new Graph-aware Mamba (GaMamba) model, which incorporates topology-derived structural prompts into Mamba to capture long-range dependencies while preserving graph topological information. Experiments on ABIDE-I and REST-MDD demonstrate that HLBG outperforms state-of-the-art methods and identifies disorder-relevant functional biomarkers.

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