Vertex-transitive strongly regular graphs in the switching class of doubly transitive two-graphs
arXiv:2608.30330
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper supplies highly symmetric sparse graphs obtained from switching classes of regular two-graphs, with exact strongly regular parameters controlling every pairwise common-neighbor count. This uniformity is transferable to sparse neural connectivity: unlike an arbitrary k-regular mask, the resulting interaction graph is vertex-transitive and has only two possible two-hop overlap patterns, which can improve information mixing without hubs. The most direct experiment is to replace dense self-attention or MLP token mixing by a fixed strongly regular graph mask while preserving residual and local feature projections, and compare against random regular and expander masks at equal edge count.
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2026
Use the adjacency matrix of a vertex-transitive strongly regular graph as a fixed sparse attention or token-mixing mask. Every vertex has the same degree, and every pair of vertices has exactly one of two common-neighbor counts, giving predictable two-hop coverage and avoiding the degree and connectivity irregularities of random sparsification.
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