2026
Beyond ReLU: Bifurcation, Oversmoothing, and Topological Priors
ICML 2026spotlight
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) learn node representations through iterative network-based message-passing. While powerful, deep GNNs suffer from oversmoothing, where node features converge to a homogeneous, non-informative state. We re-frame this problem of representational collapse from a \emph{bifur…