Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Graph Saddle Point Problems

arXiv:2610.07255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural algorithmic reasoning, or aligning a neural network with an algorithmic paradigm, has emerged as an approach to solving polynomial-time-solvable and computationally harder combinatorial optimization problems. We propose a new message-passing framework based on the Chambolle-Pock Primal--Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) method called extsc{GraphPDHG} for solving general graph saddle-point problems. Theoretically, we show that extsc{GraphPDHG} can efficiently solve a family of graph saddle-point problems by simulating PDHG. We also show that our network can learn an accelerated PDHG algorithm. Experimentally, we support our results on accelerated PDHG by evaluating the performance of our model as a learned warm start for second-order optimization techniques (SSNAL). We also show that alignment with PDHG leads to stronger size generalization than non-aligned graph neural network (GNN) baselines. Overall, we propose a novel architecture for solving a general family of optimization problems on graphs.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-10-07