MDTE: Minority-Aware Diffusion over Temporal Edge Events for Imbalanced Node Classification

arXiv:2608.24812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class-imbalanced node classification on temporal graphs is challenging because majority-dominated temporal propagation progressively assimilates minority representations, while conventional node and neighborhood information provides insufficient discriminative evidence for minority classes. To address these issues, we propose MDTE, a minority-aware diffusion framework that reconstructs stable and discriminative temporal edge-event representations through conditional diffusion denoising. Specifically, MDTE introduces Distribution-Aware Selective Propagation, which combines Local Outlier Factor (LOF)-based propagation filtering with cluster-aware low-frequency propagation. The module preserves informative neighborhood dependencies while mitigating harmful propagation and majority-class information assimilation. It further develops Multi-View Discriminative Fusion, which exploits feature reconstruction and topology prediction to characterize class-wise differences in distribution learning and extracts complementary discriminability signals to guide denoising. Experiments on five real-world datasets demonstrate that MDTE consistently achieves the best performance on minority-class-oriented metrics, improving minority-class recall by up to 23.53 percentage points, minority-class F1 by 8.68 percentage points, and AUPRC by 2.67 percentage points over the strongest baselines.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-08-26