Applications
Train Small, Deploy Large: Zero-Shot GNN Transfer Through Geometric Renormalization
arXiv:2607.27767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) can operate on large graphs but become infrastructure-sensitive at the scale of millions of nodes and typically require sca
arXiv:2607.27767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) can operate on large graphs but become infrastructure-sensitive at the scale of millions of nodes and typically require scalable training techniques for even larger graphs. This raises a central question: when can a model trained on a smaller, scaled-down replica of a graph be deployed on the full-resolution graph without retraining? We introduce a zero-shot transfer protocol in which a GNN is trained on a graph coarse-grained by geometric renormalization (GR), and the resulting weights are transferred directly to the original network. Across synthetic and real-world networks, training on GR scaled-down replicas preserves much of the original-scale predictive performance while significantly reducing training cost. We further find that learned representations and predictive trajectories remain aligned across scales. These findings suggest that structural similarity may be more important than network size in determining GNN transferability, opening a path toward scale-equivariant graph architectures.
Related
- An Efficient and Scalable Graph Condensation with Structure-Preserving
- An LLM-Guided Query-Aware Inference System for GNN Models on Large Knowledge Graphs
- Hierarchical Multi-Scale Graph Neural Networks: Scalable Heterophilous Learning with Oversmoothing and Oversquashing Mitigation
Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-07-31