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AnyGraph: Graph Foundation Model in the Wild

arXiv 2408.10700 ↗First posted 20 Aug 2024cs.LG cs.AIcited by 51

On the map: Mixture-of-experts → MoE for time series and graphs

Abstract (arXiv)

The growing ubiquity of relational data structured as graphs has underscored the need for graph learning models with exceptional generalization capabilities. However, current approaches often struggle to effectively extract generalizable insights, frequently requiring extensive fine-tuning and limiting their versatility. Graph foundation models offer a transformative solution, with the potential to learn robust, generalizable representations from graph data. This enables more effective and adaptable applications across a wide spectrum of tasks and domains. In this work, we investigate a unified graph model, AnyGraph, designed to handle key challenges: i) Structure Heterogenity. Addressing distribution shift in graph structural information; ii) Feature Heterogenity. Handling diverse feature representation spaces across graph datasets; iii) Fast Adaptation. Efficiently adapting the model to new graph domains; iv) Scaling Law Emergence. Enabling the model to exhibit scaling law behavior, where its performance scales favorably with the amount of data and parameter sizes. To tackle these critical challenges, we build the AnyGraph upon a Graph Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. This approach empowers the model to effectively manage both the in-domain and cross-domain distribution shift concerning structure-level and feature-level heterogeneity. Furthermore, a lightweight graph expert routing mechanism is proposed to facilitate AnyGraph's fast adaptability to new data and domains. Our extensive experiments on diverse 38 graph datasets have demonstrated the strong zero-shot learning performance of AnyGraph across diverse graph domains with significant distribution shift. Furthermore, we have validated the model's fast adaptation ability and scaling law emergence, showcasing its versatility.

Key facts. Cited by 51 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in MoE for time series and graphs, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts. Builds on 36 of its 40 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Aug 2024.

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  1. 2025RiemannGFM: Learning a Graph Foundation Model from Riemannian Geometrycited by 32
  2. 2024Towards Graph Foundation Models: Learning Generalities Across Graphs via Task-Treescited by 30
  3. 2025Turning Tabular Foundation Models into Graph Foundation Modelscited by 30
  4. 2024GraphLand: Evaluating Graph Machine Learning Models on Diverse Industrial Datacited by 20
  5. 2025GraphPFN: A Prior-Data Fitted Graph Foundation Modelcited by 20
  6. 2024A Survey of Deep Graph Learning under Distribution Shifts: from Graph Out-of-Distribution Generalization to Adaptationcited by 16
  7. 2025Towards Effective Federated Graph Foundation Model via Mitigating Knowledge Entanglementcited by 14
  8. 2024One Model for One Graph: A New Perspective for Pretraining with Cross-domain Graphscited by 12
  9. 2026MM-OpenFGL: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Federated Graph Learningcited by 11
  10. 2024Graph Learning in the Era of LLMs: A Survey from the Perspective of Data, Models, and Taskscited by 10
  11. 2024GraphAgent: Agentic Graph Language Assistantcited by 8
  12. 2025Model Generalization on Text Attribute Graphs: Principles with Large Language Modelscited by 8
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  1. 2025FedBook: A Unified Federated Graph Foundation Codebook with Intra-domain and Inter-domain Knowledge Modelingcited by 8
  2. 2025Can TabPFN Compete with GNNs for Node Classification via Graph Tabularization?cited by 8
  3. 2026No Need to Train Your RDB Foundation Modelcited by 8
  4. 2025Towards A Universal Graph Structural Encodercited by 7
  5. 2024Towards Graph Foundation Models: Training on Knowledge Graphs Enables Transferability to General Graphscited by 6
  6. 2026Toward Effective Multimodal Graph Foundation Model: A Divide-and-Conquer Based Approachcited by 6
  7. 2025Towards Graph Foundation Models: A Transferability Perspectivecited by 5
  8. 2026A Fair Evaluation of Graph Foundation Models for Node Property Predictioncited by 4
  9. 2026Learning Graph Foundation Models on Riemannian Graph-of-Graphscited by 3
  10. 2025A Survey of Cross-domain Graph Learning: Progress and Future Directionscited by 2
  11. 2025A Scalable Pretraining Framework for Link Prediction with Efficient Adaptationcited by 2
  12. 2025GENIE-ASI: Generative Instruction and Executable Code for Analog Subcircuit Identificationcited by 2
  13. 2025GMoPE:A Prompt-Expert Mixture Framework for Graph Foundation Modelscited by 2
  14. 2026Rethinking Federated Graph Foundation Models: A Graph-Language Alignment-based Approachcited by 2
  15. 2026Bridging Input Feature Spaces Towards Graph Foundation Modelscited by 2
  16. 2025Relation-Aware Graph Foundation Modelcited by 1
  17. 2025Progressive Scaling Visual Object Trackingcited by 1
  18. 2025HeTa: Relation-wise Heterogeneous Graph Foundation Attack Modelcited by 1
  19. 2025Grounding Intelligence in Movementcited by 1
  20. 2026GraphSeek: Next-Generation Graph Analytics with LLMscited by 1
  21. 2026Riemannian Geometry Speaks Louder Than Words: From Graph Foundation Model to Next-Generation Graph Intelligencecited by 1
  22. 2026Graphlets as Building Blocks for Structural Vocabulary in Knowledge Graph Foundation Modelscited by 1
  23. 2026Toward Federated Multimodal Graph Foundation Models: A Topology-Aware Multimodal Alignment Frameworkcited by 1
  24. 2025H2GFM: Towards unifying Homogeneity and Heterogeneity on Text-Attributed Graphscited by 0
  25. 2025GSTBench: A Benchmark Study on the Transferability of Graph Self-Supervised Learningcited by 0
  26. 2025Two Facets of the Same Optimization Coin: Model Degradation and Representation Collapse in Graph Foundation Modelscited by 0
  27. 2025Graph Optimization Foundation Model: Tokenizing Graph via A Language-Model Paradigmcited by 0
  28. 2026Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Graph Foundation Modelscited by 0
  29. 2026GraphVec: Cross-Domain Graph Vectorization for Graph-Level Representation Learningcited by 0
  30. 2026Can Graph Foundation Models Generalize Over Architecture?cited by 0
  31. 2026Mochi: Aligning Pre-training and Inference for Efficient Graph Foundation Models via Meta-Learningcited by 0
  32. 2026On the Safety of Graph Representation Learningcited by 0
  33. 2026Graph Computation Meets Circuit Algebra: A Task-Aligned Analysis of Graph Neural Networks for Electronic Design Automationcited by 0
  34. 2026When Do Graph Foundation Models Transfer? A Data-Centric Theorycited by 0
  35. 2026Attacking Graph Foundation Models Through Their Shared Representationcited by 0
  36. 2026What Makes Graph Unified? Principles and Generative Sliding-Window Transformer for Graph Foundation Modelscited by 0
  37. 2026Beyond Feature and Structure Alignment: Learning Transferable Propagation Knowledge for Graph Foundation Modelscited by 0
  38. 2026Neural Message Passing on Structural Interaction Graphs for Fully-Inductive Graph Neural Networkscited by 0

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