Beyond the Aggregation Dilemma: Prior-Retaining Decoupled Learning for Multimodal Graphs

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arXiv:2605.24684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Attributed Graph Learning (MAGL) integrates intrinsic node attributes with structural topology via graph aggregation. However, as pretrained encoders evolve into Large Foundation Models (LFMs), the landscape of MAGL fundamentally shifts: under high-confidence LFM priors, mandatory aggregation introduces topological noise that overwhelms discriminative signals, triggering a counter-intuitive performance inversion where sophisticated MAG

Published 26 May 2026

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Title: Beyond the Aggregation Dilemma: Prior-Retaining Decoupled Learning for Multimodal Graphs

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arXiv:2605.24684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Attributed Graph Learning (MAGL) integrates intrinsic node attributes with structural topology via graph aggregation. However, as pretrained encoders evolve into Large Foundation Models (LFMs), the landscape of MAGL fundamentally shifts: under high-confidence LFM priors, mandatory aggregation introduces topological noise that overwhelms discriminative signals, triggering a counter-intuitive performance inversion where sophisticated MAG
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