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Positional Encodings (PEs) are essential for injecting structural information into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Graph Transformers, yet their empirical impact remains insufficiently understood. We introduce a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Florian Grötschla , Jiaqing Xie , Roger Wattenhofer

Link Prediction (LP) is a critical task in graph machine learning. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced LP performance recently, existing methods face key challenges including limited supervision from sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yu Song , Zhigang Hua , Harry Shomer , Yan Xie , Jingzhe Liu , Bo Long , Hui Liu

Resource allocation in tactical ad-hoc networks presents unique challenges due to their dynamic and multi-hop nature. Accurate prediction of future network connectivity is essential for effective resource allocation in such environments. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Junhua Liu , Justin Albrethsen , Lincoln Goh , David Yau , Kwan Hui Lim

Traffic forecasting is one canonical example of spatial-temporal learning task in Intelligent Traffic System. Existing approaches capture spatial dependency with a pre-determined matrix in graph convolution neural operators. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Chen Weikang , Li Yawen , Xue Zhe , Li Ang , Wu Guobin

Unified graph representation learning aims to generate node embeddings, which can be applied to multiple downstream applications of graph analytics. However, existing studies based on graph neural networks and language models either suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenbo Shang , Xuliang Zhu , Xin Huang

Forecasting future links is a central task in temporal graph (TG) reasoning, requiring models to leverage historical interactions to predict upcoming ones. Traditional neural approaches, such as temporal graph neural networks, achieve…

Learning to solve complex tasks with signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is crucial to many real-world applications. However, most previous works only consider fixed or parametrized STL specifications due to the lack of a diverse STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yue Meng , Chuchu Fan

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable progress. Despite their success, next-token prediction (NTP), the dominant method for LLM training and inference, is constrained in both contextual coverage and inference efficiency due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , Weixiang Zhao , Manyi Zhang , Xianzhi Yu , Xiu Su , Shuo Yang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Positional and structural encodings (PSE) enable better identifiability of nodes within a graph, rendering them essential tools for empowering modern GNNs, and in particular graph Transformers. However, designing PSEs that work optimally…

Temporal networks have gained significant prominence in the past decade for modelling dynamic interactions within complex systems. A key challenge in this domain is Temporal Link Prediction (TLP), which aims to forecast future connections…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiafeng Xiong , Ahmad Zareie , Rizos Sakellariou

Positional encoding plays a crucial role in transformers, significantly impacting model performance and length generalization. Prior research has introduced absolute positional encoding (APE) and relative positional encoding (RPE) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Chuanyang Zheng , Yihang Gao , Han Shi , Minbin Huang , Jingyao Li , Jing Xiong , Xiaozhe Ren , Michael Ng , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Yu Li

Positional encoding has become a standard component in graph learning, especially for graph Transformers and other models that must distinguish structurally similar nodes, yet its fundamental identifiability remains poorly understood. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zimo Yan , Zheng Xie , Chang Liu , Yiqin Lv , Runfan Duan

The rapid growth of streaming media and e-commerce has driven advancements in recommendation systems, particularly Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS). These systems employ users' interaction histories to predict future preferences.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alejo Lopez-Avila , Jinhua Du , Abbas Shimary , Ze Li

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of position encoding in transformer architectures. By incorporating positional information, this approach provides essential guidance for modeling dependencies between elements across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Avinash Amballa

Traffic forecasting is crucial for public safety and resource optimization, yet is very challenging due to three aspects: i) current existing works mostly exploit intricate temporal patterns (e.g., the short-term thunderstorm and long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yuchen Fang , Yanjun Qin , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao , Bingbing Xu , Chenxing Wang , Liang Zeng

We present a multi-scale predictive coding model for future video frames prediction. Drawing inspiration on the ``Predictive Coding" theories in cognitive science, it is updated by a combination of bottom-up and top-down information flows,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chaofan Ling , Junpei Zhong , Weihua Li

Traffic forecasting is a complex multivariate time-series regression task of paramount importance for traffic management and planning. However, existing approaches often struggle to model complex multi-range dependencies using local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dongcheng Zou , Senzhang Wang , Xuefeng Li , Hao Peng , Yuandong Wang , Chunyang Liu , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang

Dynamic graph learning methods have recently emerged as powerful tools for modelling relational data evolving through time. However, despite extensive benchmarking efforts, it remains unclear whether current Temporal Graph Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alireza Dizaji , Benedict Aaron Tjandra , Mehrab Hamidi , Shenyang Huang , Guillaume Rabusseau

This study reports an unintuitive finding that positional encoding enhances learning of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Positional encoding is a high-dimensional representation of time indices on input data. Most famously, positional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Takashi Morita

The local inductive bias of message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs) hampers their ability to exploit key structural information (e.g., connectivity and cycles). Positional encoding (PE) and Persistent Homology (PH) have emerged as two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yogesh Verma , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg