A Sharp Curvature Threshold for GLMY Path Homology
arXiv:2608.23187
2026
Geometry
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What the math gives to ML
The paper gives a sharp structural certificate: if every edge of a finite simple graph has Lin–Lu–Yau curvature strictly above 1/2, then first GLMY path homology vanishes, while the 5-cycle shows that the threshold is optimal. This connects a local metric quantity, computable from neighborhood transport, to the disappearance of global cycle-space structure. A practical transfer is curvature-aware graph rewiring or regularization: discourage low-curvature edges when redundant or conflicting message-passing routes are harmful, while testing whether task-relevant cycles should be protected from suppression.
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2026
Add a curvature-aware structural regularizer to a graph neural network or learned graph-rewiring module. The regularizer raises low-curvature edges toward the sharp 1/2 threshold, which is predicted to suppress first-dimensional cycle-space structure and reduce redundant or conflicting message-passing routes without explicitly computing graph homology.
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