Towards Multi-Label Graph Foundation Models: from Single-Vector Representation Learning to Multi-Semantic Basis Learning
arXiv:2608.06394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-label node classification is an important yet challenging task in graph learning, where nodes exhibit multiple semantics simultaneously. Existing methods for multi-label node classification can effectively model multiple labels, while only considering in-domain scenarios where the model needs to be trained and tested within the same graph domain, resulting in limited cross-domain generalization. Recently, Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable graph representations across diverse graph domains and downstream tasks. However, existing GFMs are built upon single-label assumption, where all nodes are arbitrarily regarded as containing only one class of semantic and embedded into a single representation. For multi-label nodes, such a representation essentially approximates multiple semantics with a single point in the representation space, inevitably leading to semantic entanglement and making simultaneous discrimination of multiple labels difficult. To address these limitations, we propose a Multi-Semantic Basis Graph Foundation Model (MSB-GFM), a framework for cross-domain multi-label node classification. Specifically, we introduce a multi-semantic basis representation learning paradigm that models each multi-label node as an adaptive composition of semantic bases, thereby enabling flexible representational capacity for modeling multiple semantics. Furthermore, we develop a semantic-structure dual-channel architecture with domain adversarial training for effective cross-domain knowledge transfer. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
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Title:Towards Multi-Label Graph Foundation Models: from Single-Vector Representation Learning to Multi-Semantic Basis Learning
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Abstract:Multi-label node classification is an important yet challenging task in graph learning, where nodes exhibit multiple semantics simultaneously. Existing methods for multi-label node classification can effectively model multiple labels, while only considering in-domain scenarios where the model needs to be trained and tested within the same graph domain, resulting in limited cross-domain generalization. Recently, Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable graph representations across diverse graph domains and downstream tasks. However, existing GFMs are built upon single-label assumption, where all nodes are arbitrarily regarded as containing only one class of semantic and embedded into a single representation. For multi-label nodes, such a representation essentially approximates multiple semantics with a single point in the representation space, inevitably leading to semantic entanglement and making simultaneous discrimination of multiple labels difficult. To address these limitations, we propose a Multi-Semantic Basis Graph Foundation Model (MSB-GFM), a framework for cross-domain multi-label node classification. Specifically, we introduce a multi-semantic basis representation learning paradigm that models each multi-label node as an adaptive composition of semantic bases, thereby enabling flexible representational capacity for modeling multiple semantics. Furthermore, we develop a semantic-structure dual-channel architecture with domain adversarial training for effective cross-domain knowledge transfer. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.06394
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From: Jiayu Zhang [view email] [v1] Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:32:43 UTC (532 KB)
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