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Francesco Di Giovanni

10 accepted papers

2026

MarS-FM: Generative Modeling of Molecular Dynamics via Markov State Models

ICLR 2026poster

Molecular Dynamics (MD) is a powerful computational microscope for probing protein functions. However, the need for fine-grained integration and the long timescales of biomolecular events make MD computationally expensive. To address this, several generative models have been proposed to generate sur…

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2025

A General Graph Spectral Wavelet Convolution via Chebyshev Order Decomposition

ICML 2025poster

Spectral graph convolution, an important tool of data filtering on graphs, relies on two essential decisions: selecting spectral bases for signal transformation and parameterizing the kernel for frequency analysis. While recent techniques mainly focus on standard Fourier transform and vector-valued…

2025

Understanding Virtual Nodes: Oversquashing and Node Heterogeneity

ICLR 2025poster

While message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have convincing success in a range of applications, they exhibit limitations such as the oversquashing problem and their inability to capture long-range interactions. Augmenting MPNNs with a virtual node (VN) removes the locality constraint of the layer…

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2024

Locality-Aware Graph Rewiring in GNNs

ICLR 2024poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular models for machine learning on graphs that typically follow the message-passing paradigm, whereby the feature of a node is updated recursively upon aggregating information over its neighbors. While exchanging messages over the input graph endows GNNs with a s…

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2024

Metric Flow Matching for Smooth Interpolations on the Data Manifold

NeurIPS 2024poster

Matching objectives underpin the success of modern generative models and rely on constructing conditional paths that transform a source distribution into a target distribution. Despite being a fundamental building block, conditional paths have been designed principally under the assumption of $\text…

2023

DRew: Dynamically Rewired Message Passing with Delay

ICML 2023poster

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been shown to suffer from the phenomenon of over-squashing that causes poor performance for tasks relying on long-range interactions. This can be largely attributed to message passing only occurring locally, over a node's immediate neighbours. Rewiring ap…

2023

On Over-Squashing in Message Passing Neural Networks: The Impact of Width, Depth, and Topology

ICML 2023poster

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are instances of Graph Neural Networks that leverage the graph to send messages over the edges. This inductive bias leads to a phenomenon known as over-squashing, where a node feature is insensitive to information contained at distant nodes. Despite recent met…

2022

Neural Sheaf Diffusion: A Topological Perspective on Heterophily and Oversmoothing in GNNs

NeurIPS 2022accept

Cellular sheaves equip graphs with a ``geometrical'' structure by assigning vector spaces and linear maps to nodes and edges. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) implicitly assume a graph with a trivial underlying sheaf. This choice is reflected in the structure of the graph Laplacian operator, the propert…

2022

Understanding over-squashing and bottlenecks on graphs via curvature

ICLR 2022oral

Most graph neural networks (GNNs) use the message passing paradigm, in which node features are propagated on the input graph. Recent works pointed to the distortion of information flowing from distant nodes as a factor limiting the efficiency of message passing for tasks relying on long-distance int…

2021

Beltrami Flow and Neural Diffusion on Graphs

NeurIPS 2021poster

We propose a novel class of graph neural networks based on the discretized Beltrami flow, a non-Euclidean diffusion PDE. In our model, node features are supplemented with positional encodings derived from the graph topology and jointly evolved by the Beltrami flow, producing simultaneously contin…