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Why Does Graph Learning Fail to Fully Benefit from a Text Teacher?

Fumiaki Kimino, Ryoma Sato

Published

Aug 26, 2026

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Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

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15% (Low)

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Abstract

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used to represent complex interactions and relationships among entities. We investigate a multimodal model that combines two complementary ideas: a self-supervised method that enables a GNN encoder pretrained on one dataset to operate directly on another dataset with a different node-feature dimensionality, without rebuilding the model or realigning the data; and an alternating optimization method that updates a language-model module in an E-step and a GNN module in an M-step, rather than jointly training a large language model and a GNN end to end on a large graph. Despite expectations, the combined model did not sufficiently improve predictive performance. We identify six factors: (1) an external anchor in the E-step has a strength-safety trade-off: a weak anchor has little effect, whereas an overly strong anchor can damage the graph representation; (2) the knowledge of the E-step teacher is not injected directly into the GCN embedding Z; (3) the representation space constructed in the M-step is not optimized for the same objective as the E-step teacher space, resulting in a compromise representation for target classification; (4) GCN propagation averages a node's own textual information with information from its neighbors; (5) cosine alignment does not guarantee axes that are discriminative for classification, so stronger geometric alignment with the E-step text anchor need not sufficiently improve the target decision boundary or classification performance; and (6) the force that preserves the source-side self-supervised geometry in the M-step conflicts with the force that moves the representation toward the E-step teacher. We support these observations through a staged set of experiments that varies the influence of the E-step.

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