CCMamba: Topologically-Informed Selective State-Space Networks on Combinatorial Complexes for Higher-Order Graph Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Jiawen, Shao, Qi, Zhou, Mingtong, Chen, Duxin, Yu, Wenwu
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author Chen, Jiawen
Shao, Qi
Zhou, Mingtong
Chen, Duxin
Yu, Wenwu
author_facet Chen, Jiawen
Shao, Qi
Zhou, Mingtong
Chen, Duxin
Yu, Wenwu
contents Topological deep learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling higher-order relational structures beyond pairwise interactions that standard graph neural networks fail to capture. While combinatorial complexes (CCs) offer a unified topological foundation for the higher-order graph learning, existing topological deep learning methods rely heavily on local message passing and attention mechanisms. These suffer from quadratic complexity and local neighborhood constraints, limiting their scalability and capacity for rank-aware, long-range dependency modeling. To overcome these challenges, we propose Combinatorial Complex Mamba (CCMamba), the first unified Mamba-based neural framework for learning on combinatorial complexes. CCMamba reformulates higher-order message passing as a selective state-space modeling problem by linearizing multi-rank incidence relations into structured, rank-aware sequences. This architecture enables adaptive, directional, and long-range information propagation in linear time bypassing the scalability bottlenecks of self-attention. Theoretically, we further establish that the expressive power of CCMamba is upper-bounded by the 1-dimensional combinatorial complex Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-CCWL) test. Extensive experiments across graph, hypergraph, and simplicial benchmarks demonstrate that CCMamba consistently outperforms existing methods while exhibiting superior scalability and remarkable robustness against over-smoothing in deep architectures.
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spellingShingle CCMamba: Topologically-Informed Selective State-Space Networks on Combinatorial Complexes for Higher-Order Graph Learning
Chen, Jiawen
Shao, Qi
Zhou, Mingtong
Chen, Duxin
Yu, Wenwu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Topological deep learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling higher-order relational structures beyond pairwise interactions that standard graph neural networks fail to capture. While combinatorial complexes (CCs) offer a unified topological foundation for the higher-order graph learning, existing topological deep learning methods rely heavily on local message passing and attention mechanisms. These suffer from quadratic complexity and local neighborhood constraints, limiting their scalability and capacity for rank-aware, long-range dependency modeling. To overcome these challenges, we propose Combinatorial Complex Mamba (CCMamba), the first unified Mamba-based neural framework for learning on combinatorial complexes. CCMamba reformulates higher-order message passing as a selective state-space modeling problem by linearizing multi-rank incidence relations into structured, rank-aware sequences. This architecture enables adaptive, directional, and long-range information propagation in linear time bypassing the scalability bottlenecks of self-attention. Theoretically, we further establish that the expressive power of CCMamba is upper-bounded by the 1-dimensional combinatorial complex Weisfeiler-Lehman (1-CCWL) test. Extensive experiments across graph, hypergraph, and simplicial benchmarks demonstrate that CCMamba consistently outperforms existing methods while exhibiting superior scalability and remarkable robustness against over-smoothing in deep architectures.
title CCMamba: Topologically-Informed Selective State-Space Networks on Combinatorial Complexes for Higher-Order Graph Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20518