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Ben Finkelshtein

9 accepted papers

2026

Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference

ICLR 2026oral

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged for text-rich graph machine learning tasks, with node classification standing out due to its high-impact application domains such as fraud detection and recommendation systems. Yet, despite a surge of interest, the field lacks a principled und…

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2026

Efficient Learning on Large Graphs using a Densifying Regularity Lemma

ICLR 2026poster

Learning on large graphs presents significant challenges, with traditional Message Passing Neural Networks suffering from computational and memory costs scaling linearly with the number of edges. We introduce the Intersecting Block Graph (IBG), a low-rank factorization of large directed graphs based…

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2025

Covered Forest: Fine-grained generalization analysis of graph neural networks

ICML 2025spotlight

The expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) is reasonably well understood, primarily through combinatorial techniques from graph isomorphism testing. However, MPNNs' generalization abilities---making meaningful predictions beyond the training set---remain less explored. Cur…

2025

Equivariance Everywhere All At Once: A Recipe for Graph Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Graph machine learning architectures are typically tailored to specific tasks on specific datasets, which hinders their broader applicability. This has led to a new quest in graph machine learning: \emph{how to build graph foundation models (GFMs)} capable of generalizing across arbitrary graphs an…

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2025

Position: Graph Learning Will Lose Relevance Due To Poor Benchmarks

ICML 2025poster

While machine learning on graphs has demonstrated promise in drug design and molecular property prediction, significant benchmarking challenges hinder its further progress and relevance. Current benchmarking practices often lack focus on transformative, real-world applications, favoring narrow domai…

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2024

Almost Surely Asymptotically Constant Graph Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2024poster

We present a new angle on the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) by studying how the predictions of real-valued GNN classifiers, such as those classifying graphs probabilistically, evolve as we apply them on larger graphs drawn from some random graph model. We show that the output conv…

2024

Cooperative Graph Neural Networks

ICML 2024poster

Graph neural networks are popular architectures for graph machine learning, based on iterative computation of node representations of an input graph through a series of invariant transformations. A large class of graph neural networks follow a standard message-passing paradigm: at every layer, each…

2024

Learning on Large Graphs using Intersecting Communities

NeurIPS 2024poster

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are a staple of graph machine learning. MPNNs iteratively update each node’s representation in an input graph by aggregating messages from the node’s neighbors, which necessitates a memory complexity of the order of the __number of graph edges__. This complexi…

2023

Strategic Classification with Graph Neural Networks

ICLR 2023poster

Strategic classification studies learning in settings where users can modify their features to obtain favorable predictions. Most current works focus on simple classifiers that trigger independent user responses. Here we examine the implications of learning with more elaborate models that break the…