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

arXiv:2608.25741 · cs.LG, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Alignment — 43× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 24× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anchor Loss — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Linear probe — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pseudo-labels — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• GNNs — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Domain Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Adjacency Matrix — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Feature-Universal Graph Pre-training Model — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Graph Construction — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semi-supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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• Localized Contrastive Learning on Graphs
• OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts
• DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter
• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

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