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DisRFM: Polar Riemannian Flow Matching for Structure-Preserving Graph Domain Adaptation

arXiv 2602.00656 ↗First posted 31 Jan 2026cs.LGcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

Graph Domain Adaptation (GDA) aims to transfer graph classifiers across domains with both semantic and topological shifts. Existing Euclidean adversarial methods face two challenges: Structural Degeneration, where domain confusion entangles and suppresses label-relevant topology, and Optimization Instability, where minimax training induces oscillatory gradients under large structural shifts. We propose DisRFM, a geometry-aware GDA framework that addresses these challenges with Riemannian representation learning and flow-based transport. DisRFM embeds graph representations on a constant-curvature manifold and expresses them in geodesic polar coordinates. Polar endpoint regularization calibrates topologysensitive radial scales via univariate Wasserstein alignment and preserves scalenormalized class semantics through confidence-filtered angular alignment, with radial magnitude modulating pseudo-label reliability. DisRFM introduces topologyconditioned polar flow matching, which couples class-compatible source and target samples by a normalized polar transport cost and learns a metric-corrected vector field along geodesic interpolants. Theoretical analysis characterizes the structural risk of unconditional domain confusion and relates polar discrepancies and flow error to target risk. Extensive experiments under diverse domain shifts demonstrate that DisRFM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Flow matching, time series and science, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 43 of its 67 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 31 Jan 2026.

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