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VisAdj: Learning Adjacency Matrices from Node-Link Images

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 50 references
Computer Science

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VisAdj is a new framework for topology-aware adjacency prediction that introduces an attention-sparse neighbor sampler to adaptively select a high-recall set of candidate node pairs and performs joint edge inference using a line-graph transformer that treats candidate edges as tokens and explicitly models dependencies among incident edges.

Abstract

Learning adjacency matrices from node-link images is a fundamental problem for recovering structured graph information from visual observations. Existing methods typically rely on fixed KNN-based heuristics for candidate edge selection and fail to capture dependencies among edges. To overcome these limitations, we propose VisAdj, a new framework for topology-aware adjacency prediction. VisAdj introduces an attention-sparse neighbor sampler to adaptively select a high-recall set of candidate node pairs and performs joint edge inference using a line-graph transformer that treats candidate edges as tokens and explicitly models dependencies among incident edges. Extensive experiments on synthetic graphs, road networks, and vessel images demonstrate that VisAdj consistently outperforms existing baselines by clear margins.

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