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Ismail Ilkan Ceylan

18 accepted papers

2026

Flock: A Knowledge Graph Foundation Model via Learning on Random Walks

ICLR 2026poster

We study the problem of zero-shot link prediction on knowledge graphs (KGs), which requires models to generalize to novel entities and novel relations. Knowledge graph foundation models (KGFMs) address this task by enforcing equivariance over both nodes and relations, which enables them to learn str…

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2026

HYPER: A Foundation Model for Inductive Link Prediction with Knowledge Hypergraphs

ICLR 2026poster

Inductive link prediction with knowledge hypergraphs is the task of predicting missing hyperedges involving completely *novel entities* (i.e., nodes unseen during training). Existing methods for inductive link prediction with knowledge hypergraphs assume a fixed relational vocabulary and, as a resul…

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2025

Curly Flow Matching for Learning Non-gradient Field Dynamics

NeurIPS 2025poster

Modeling the transport dynamics of natural processes from population-level observations is a ubiquitous problem in the natural sciences. Such models rely on key assumptions about the underlying process in order to enable faithful learning of governing dynamics that mimic the actual system behavior.…

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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

Homomorphism Counts as Structural Encodings for Graph Learning

ICLR 2025poster

Graph Transformers are popular neural networks that extend the well-known Transformer architecture to the graph domain. These architectures operate by applying self-attention on graph nodes and incorporating graph structure through the use of positional encodings (e.g., Laplacian positional encoding…

2025

How Expressive are Knowledge Graph Foundation Models?

ICML 2025poster

Knowledge Graph Foundation Models (KGFMs) are at the frontier for deep learning on knowledge graphs (KGs), as they can generalize to completely novel knowledge graphs with different relational vocabularies. Despite their empirical success, our theoretical understanding of KGFMs remains very limited.…

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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

Fisher Flow Matching for Generative Modeling over Discrete Data

NeurIPS 2024poster

Generative modeling over discrete data has recently seen numerous success stories, with applications spanning language modeling, biological sequence design, and graph-structured molecular data. The predominant generative modeling paradigm for discrete data is still autoregressive, with more recent a…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

Homomorphism Counts for Graph Neural Networks: All About That Basis

ICML 2024poster

A large body of work has investigated the properties of graph neural networks and identified several limitations, particularly pertaining to their expressive power. Their inability to count certain *patterns* (e.g., cycles) in a graph lies at the heart of such limitations, since many functions to be…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
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…

2024

Position: Future Directions in the Theory of Graph Machine Learning

ICML 2024poster

Machine learning on graphs, especially using graph neural networks (GNNs), has seen a surge in interest due to the wide availability of graph data across a broad spectrum of disciplines, from life to social and engineering sciences. Despite their practical success, our theoretical understanding of t…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2023

A Theory of Link Prediction via Relational Weisfeiler-Leman on Knowledge Graphs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Graph neural networks are prominent models for representation learning over graph-structured data. While the capabilities and limitations of these models are well-understood for simple graphs, our understanding remains incomplete in the context of knowledge graphs. Our goal is to provide a systemati…

2023

PlanE: Representation Learning over Planar Graphs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Graph neural networks are prominent models for representation learning over graphs, where the idea is to iteratively compute representations of nodes of an input graph through a series of transformations in such a way that the learned graph function is isomorphism-invariant on graphs, which makes th…

2022

Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion Using Box Embeddings

AAAI 2022technical

Knowledge graph completion is the task of inferring missing facts based on existing data in a knowledge graph. Temporal knowledge graph completion (TKGC) is an extension of this task to temporal knowledge graphs, where each fact is additionally associated with a time stamp. Current approaches for TK…

Cited by 117SourcePDFScholar