Tight lower bound for the spectral radius of connected graphs with given matching number
arXiv:2607.11061
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides an extremal construction for connected graphs with fixed order and matching number that minimizes adjacency spectral radius. Its transferable asset is a topology-design rule: subdivide a tree backbone and attach leaves so that the local quantities 2d_T1(x_i)+f_i are equalized, controlling the graph's spectral amplification. The Schur-complement argument also shows how auxiliary subdivision and leaf nodes induce an effective operator on the backbone. This suggests a sparse GNN architecture with analytically calibrated propagation gain and an optional backbone-only implementation that removes auxiliary states.
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2026
Construct a sparse message-passing graph from a tree backbone by subdividing every backbone edge and attaching leaves so that 2d_T1(x_i)+f_i is constant across backbone vertices. Use this graph as a fixed communication skeleton, with propagation weights calibrated by the predicted spectral radius. The same construction can be compressed into an effective backbone operator by eliminating subdivision and leaf nodes.
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