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Improving Graph Few-shot Learning with Hyperbolic Space and Denoising Diffusion

Machine Learning 2026-05-01 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Graph few-shot learning, which focuses on effectively learning from only a small number of labeled nodes to quickly adapt to new tasks, has garnered significant research attention. Despite recent advances in graph few-shot learning that have demonstrated promising performance, existing methods still suffer from several key limitations. First, during the meta-training phase, these methods typically perform node representation learning in Euclidean space, which often fails to capture the inherently hierarchical structure existing in real-world graph data. Second, during the meta-testing phase, they usually fit an empirical target distribution derived from only a few support samples, even when this distribution significantly deviates from the true underlying distribution. To address these issues, we propose IMPRESS, a novel framework that IMproves graPh few-shot learning with hypeRbolic spacE and denoiSing diffuSion. Specifically, our model learns node representations in a hyperbolic space and enriches the support distribution through denoising diffusion mechanisms. Theoretically, IMPRESS achieves a tighter generalization bound. Empirically, IMPRESS consistently outperforms competitive baselines across multiple benchmark datasets.

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@article{arxiv.2604.27462,
  title  = {Improving Graph Few-shot Learning with Hyperbolic Space and Denoising Diffusion},
  author = {Yonghao Liu and Jialu Sun and Wei Pang and Fausto Giunchiglia and Ximing Li and Xiaoyue Feng and Renchu Guan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27462},
  year   = {2026}
}
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