CoPHo: Classifier-guided Conditional Topology Generation with Persistent Homology
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| author | Xi, Gongli Tian, Ye Yang, Mengyu Zhao, Zhenyu Zhang, Yuchao Gong, Xiangyang Que, Xirong Wang, Wendong |
| author_facet | Xi, Gongli Tian, Ye Yang, Mengyu Zhao, Zhenyu Zhang, Yuchao Gong, Xiangyang Que, Xirong Wang, Wendong |
| contents | The structure of topology underpins much of the research on performance and robustness, yet available topology data are typically scarce, necessitating the generation of synthetic graphs with desired properties for testing or release. Prior diffusion-based approaches either embed conditions into the diffusion model, requiring retraining for each attribute and hindering real-time applicability, or use classifier-based guidance post-training, which does not account for topology scale and practical constraints. In this paper, we show from a discrete perspective that gradients from a pre-trained graph-level classifier can be incorporated into the discrete reverse diffusion posterior to steer generation toward specified structural properties. Based on this insight, we propose Classifier-guided Conditional Topology Generation with Persistent Homology (CoPHo), which builds a persistent homology filtration over intermediate graphs and interprets features as guidance signals that steer generation toward the desired properties at each denoising step. Experiments on four generic/network datasets demonstrate that CoPHo outperforms existing methods at matching target metrics, and we further validate its transferability on the QM9 molecular dataset. |
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| spellingShingle | CoPHo: Classifier-guided Conditional Topology Generation with Persistent Homology Xi, Gongli Tian, Ye Yang, Mengyu Zhao, Zhenyu Zhang, Yuchao Gong, Xiangyang Que, Xirong Wang, Wendong Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence The structure of topology underpins much of the research on performance and robustness, yet available topology data are typically scarce, necessitating the generation of synthetic graphs with desired properties for testing or release. Prior diffusion-based approaches either embed conditions into the diffusion model, requiring retraining for each attribute and hindering real-time applicability, or use classifier-based guidance post-training, which does not account for topology scale and practical constraints. In this paper, we show from a discrete perspective that gradients from a pre-trained graph-level classifier can be incorporated into the discrete reverse diffusion posterior to steer generation toward specified structural properties. Based on this insight, we propose Classifier-guided Conditional Topology Generation with Persistent Homology (CoPHo), which builds a persistent homology filtration over intermediate graphs and interprets features as guidance signals that steer generation toward the desired properties at each denoising step. Experiments on four generic/network datasets demonstrate that CoPHo outperforms existing methods at matching target metrics, and we further validate its transferability on the QM9 molecular dataset. |
| title | CoPHo: Classifier-guided Conditional Topology Generation with Persistent Homology |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19736 |