Generalization Bounds for Spectral GNNs via Fourier Domain Analysis

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Autori principali: Martirosyan, Vahan A., Malitesta, Daniele, Talbot, Hugues, Giraldo, Jhony H., Malliaros, Fragkiskos D.
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author Martirosyan, Vahan A.
Malitesta, Daniele
Talbot, Hugues
Giraldo, Jhony H.
Malliaros, Fragkiskos D.
author_facet Martirosyan, Vahan A.
Malitesta, Daniele
Talbot, Hugues
Giraldo, Jhony H.
Malliaros, Fragkiskos D.
contents Spectral graph neural networks learn graph filters, but their behavior with increasing depth and polynomial order is not well understood. We analyze these models in the graph Fourier domain, where each layer becomes an element-wise frequency update, separating the fixed spectrum from trainable parameters and making depth and order explicit. In this setting, we show that Gaussian complexity is invariant under the Graph Fourier Transform, which allows us to derive data-dependent, depth, and order-aware generalization bounds together with stability estimates. In the linear case, our bounds are tighter, and on real graphs, the data-dependent term correlates with the generalization gap across polynomial bases, highlighting practical choices that avoid frequency amplification across layers.
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spellingShingle Generalization Bounds for Spectral GNNs via Fourier Domain Analysis
Martirosyan, Vahan A.
Malitesta, Daniele
Talbot, Hugues
Giraldo, Jhony H.
Malliaros, Fragkiskos D.
Machine Learning
Spectral graph neural networks learn graph filters, but their behavior with increasing depth and polynomial order is not well understood. We analyze these models in the graph Fourier domain, where each layer becomes an element-wise frequency update, separating the fixed spectrum from trainable parameters and making depth and order explicit. In this setting, we show that Gaussian complexity is invariant under the Graph Fourier Transform, which allows us to derive data-dependent, depth, and order-aware generalization bounds together with stability estimates. In the linear case, our bounds are tighter, and on real graphs, the data-dependent term correlates with the generalization gap across polynomial bases, highlighting practical choices that avoid frequency amplification across layers.
title Generalization Bounds for Spectral GNNs via Fourier Domain Analysis
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00918