Text-Attributed Graph Learning

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Text-attributed graph learning studies networks whose nodes carry descriptions, documents, or other language, using both these attributes and links for tasks such as node classification, link prediction, anomaly detection, and temporal prediction. Common approaches encode text with pretrained language models and combine it with GNN message passing or graph transformers; newer methods use graph-aware LLM prompts and adapters, contrastive alignment, retrieval, and self-supervised or reinforcement learning. Benchmarks increasingly test few-shot and zero-shot transfer, heterophilic graphs, dynamic networks, and degraded text, edges, or labels, alongside standard citation and product graphs. A central challenge is making semantic and structural signals reinforce each other across domains without letting noisy or misleading inputs harm accuracy, efficiency, or robustness.

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  1. Bridging Semantics and Structure: A Theoretically Grounded Framework for Link Prediction on TAGs

    Oct 29, 2026Chen Shao, Ruirui Wang, Tobias Kafer +1Text-Attributed Graph LearningGraph Neural Networks

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany · University of Zurich, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

  2. TACO-Graph: Automated Construction of Text-Atributed Graphs

    Oct 27, 2026Amiri Hayes, Kristina WickeGraph ConstructionText-Attributed Graph Learning

    MIT CSAIL · New Jersey Institute of Technology

  3. Big Claims, Small Margins: Do Reported GraphLLM Gains Survive Simple Baselines?

    Oct 20, 2026Michal PodstawskiLLMs for Graph LearningText-Attributed Graph Learning

    NASK National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.

  4. An Analysis of Semantic and Spatio-Temporal Co-evolution for Edge Classification on Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs

    Oct 19, 2026Tyler Bonnet, Marek ReiText-Attributed Graph LearningDynamic Graph Learning

    Imperial College London London, United Kingdom

  5. Uncovering Semantic Hierarchies in Text-Attributed Graphs via Variational EM-based LLM-GNN Synergy

    Oct 17, 2026Yunhui Liu, Xudong Jin, Qizhuo Xie +5Text-Attributed Graph LearningHierarchical Representation Learning

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison · National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Analysis and Applications, Peking University

  6. S-GAP: Stealthy Graph Attack Primitives for Graph Large Language Models

    Oct 16, 2026Wenda Li, Tongya Zheng, Shunyu Liu +8Adversarial Attacks on LLMsLLMs for Graph Learning

    1Zhejiang University · 2Hangzhou City University · 3Nanyang Technological University +1

  7. DeKoR: Decomposed Knowledge Routing for Efficient GNN--LLM Fusion

    Oct 10, 2026Peiyuan Li, Yongqi Huang, Jitao Zhao +2Text-Attributed Graph Learning

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  8. GraphMAS: A Systematic Benchmark of Multi-Agent Coordination for Graph Learning

    Sep 30, 2026Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun +2Multi-Agent CoordinationText-Attributed Graph Learning

    New York University Shanghai · New York University · Northwestern University

  9. Transfer Learning for Edge Classification on Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs

    Sep 26, 2026Tyler Bonnet, Marek ReiText-Attributed Graph LearningCross-Domain Transfer Learning

    Imperial College London London, United Kingdom

  10. TemporalGraphLLM: Temporal Graph Neural Networks with Large Language Models for Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs

    Sep 25, 2026Moran Beladev, Or Eitan, Gilad Katz +1Text-Attributed Graph LearningLLMs for Graph Learning

    Department of Information Systems Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  11. Chimaera: A Mixture-of-Graph-Experts Architecture for Cross-Task and Cross-Dataset Graph Learning

    Sep 8, 2026Jonatan Frank, David Richerby, Ansgar ScherpTransfer LearningText-Attributed Graph Learning

    University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany · University of Essex, Colchester, UK

  12. REFINE: LLM Refinement over Budgeted Text-Attributed Graphs for Personalized Medical Concept Representation

    Sep 3, 2026Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam, Dongjie Wang +1Text-Attributed Graph LearningLLMs for Graph Learning

    University of Kansas, USA

  13. ValueGraph: Value-Signal Guided Graph Pre-training for Contextualized User Representation

    Aug 30, 2026Yitong Han, Wei Gao, Yi Zhao +3User ModelingRepresentation Learning

    School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore · Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR, Singapore

  14. Call Neighbours Yourself: Graph Walks with Destination-Conditioned On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Aug 30, 2026Yilun Liu, Boyu Luo, Yanran Tang +2LLM Reasoning with GraphsText-Attributed Graph Learning

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  15. Rethinking Message Passing as Retrieval for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

    Aug 27, 2026Jintang Li, Yuhong Chen, Ruofan Wu +4Graph Neural NetworksText-Attributed Graph Learning

    School of Computer Science and Engineering of Central South University, Changsha 410000, China

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

    Aug 26, 2026Fumiaki Kimino, Ryoma SatoGraph Representation LearningText-Attributed Graph Learning

    SOKENDAI · National Institute of Informatics · National Institute of Informatics, SOKENDAI

  17. Auditing Privacy Risks in LLM-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks

    Aug 26, 2026Longzhu He, Zelang Wen, Chaozhuo Li +1Privacy-Preserving MLLLMs for Graph Learning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  18. Who Should Teach? Confidence-Aware Dual-Teacher Learning for Few-Shot Node Classification on Text-Attributed Graphs

    Aug 22, 2026Hojin Kim, Sujin Yoon, Sungsu Lim +2Text-Attributed Graph LearningNode Classification

    Chungbuk National University Cheongju, South Korea · Chungnam National University Daejeon, South Korea · The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA

  19. Trojaning the Alignment: Stealthy Backdoor Attacks against Graph Foundation Models

    Aug 21, 2026Minhua Lin, Zhicheng Gao, Yilong Wang +3Adversarial AttacksGraph Foundation Models

    The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA · Amazon, Palo Alto, CA, USA

  20. ProTAGAD: A Foundation Model for TAG Anomaly Detection with Decoupled Topological and Textual Prototypes

    Aug 11, 2026Ziyan Wang, Liwen Wu, Cheng Xie +3Prototype LearningText-Attributed Graph Learning

    School of Software and AI, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

  21. Agentic Graph Token Reasoning

    Aug 1, 2026Zhuoyi Peng, Yi YangLLM Reasoning with GraphsText-Attributed Graph Learning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  22. One Model, Many Graphs: Learning over Attributed Graphs across Heterogeneous Modalities with Vision-Language Models

    Jul 21, 2026Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun +2Graph Representation LearningVLM Adaptation

    New York University Shanghai · New York University

  23. OpenRTAG: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Text-Attributed Graph Learning under Data Quality Degradation

    Jul 21, 2026Yuze Dai, Zhihan Zhang, Yan Zhao +6Text-Attributed Graph LearningLearning with Noisy Labels

    Beijing Institute of Technology

  24. TAG-DLM: Diffusion Language Models for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Lingjie Chen, Yuanchen Bei, Haobo Xu +3Masked Diffusion ModelsLink Prediction

    UIUC · VISA

  25. PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

    Jun 29, 2026Zhifei Hu, Alexandra I. CristeaText-Attributed Graph LearningMultimodal Fusion

    Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

  26. Node-to-Neighborhood Semantic Consistency: Text-Topology Alignment for TAGs Anomaly Detection

    Jun 29, 2026Bochen Lin, Jianxiang Yu, Jiayi Wu +3Text-Attributed Graph LearningAnomaly Detection

    School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China · WeChat, Tencent, Guangzhou, China

  27. TaLK: Text-attributed Graph Dataset Distillation via Coupling Language Model with Graph-Aware Kernel

    Jun 22, 2026Yeongho Kim, Yeonje Choi, Kijung ShinText-Attributed Graph LearningDataset Distillation

    Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST

  28. LLM Features Can Hurt GNNs: Concatenation Interference on Homophilous Graph Benchmarks

    Jun 16, 2026Zhongyuan Wang, Pratyusha VemuriGraph Neural NetworksGraph Representation Learning

  29. Formalizing and Mitigating Structural Distortion in LLM Attention for Graph Reasoning

    Jun 14, 2026Donald Loveland, Puja Trivedi, Ari Weinstein +2LLM Reasoning with GraphsTransformer Attention

    University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Amazon Palo Alto, CA, USA

  30. GraspLLM: Towards Zero-Shot Generalization on Text-Attributed Graphs with LLMs

    Jun 10, 2026Hengyi Feng, Zeang Sheng, Meiyi Qiang +2Graph Representation LearningText-Attributed Graph Learning

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peking University · Tencent Inc +1