arXiv:2602.03217cs.LGcs.AI2026-02

图神经网络在脑连接数据上表现差,因现有自监督学习忽略拓扑结构。

Topology Matters: A Cautionary Case Study of Graph SSL on Neuro-Inspired Benchmarks

  • 构建分层自监督框架,同时学习节点、边和图级表征
  • 实验发现传统启发式方法远超自监督模型,准确率高出27%
  • 警示通用图自监督学习需引入拓扑感知目标,尤其关注社区结构

理解局部交互如何形成全局脑组织,需要能跨多尺度表示信息的模型。我们提出一种受多模态神经影像启发的分层自监督学习(SSL)框架,联合学习节点、边和图级嵌入。构建了一个可控合成基准,模仿连接组的拓扑特性。四阶段评估协议揭示:基于不变性的自监督模型与基准拓扑性质根本不匹配,其性能被经典拓扑感知启发式方法彻底超越。消融实验确认目标错位:设计为对拓扑扰动不变的SSL目标,反而学会忽略经典方法依赖的社区结构。结果暴露了将通用图自监督学习应用于连接组类数据的根本缺陷。本文以该框架作为警示性案例,强调神经人工智能研究需开发新的拓扑感知自监督目标,显式奖励结构保留(如模块性或基序)。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding how local interactions give rise to global brain organization requires models that can represent information across multiple scales. We introduce a hierarchical self-supervised learning (SSL) framework that jointly learns node-, edge-, and graph-level embeddings, inspired by multimodal neuroimaging. We construct a controllable synthetic benchmark mimicking the topological properties of connectomes. Our four-stage evaluation protocol reveals a critical failure: the invariance-based SSL model is fundamentally misaligned with the benchmark's topological properties and is catastrophically outperformed by classical, topology-aware heuristics. Ablations confirm an objective mismatch: SSL objectives designed to be invariant to topological perturbations learn to ignore the very community structure that classical methods exploit. Our results expose a fundamental pitfall in applying generic graph SSL to connectome-like data. We present this framework as a cautionary case study, highlighting the need for new, topology-aware SSL objectives for neuro-AI research that explicitly reward the preservation of structure (e.g., modularity or motifs).

图自监督脑连接组拓扑感知神经人工智能

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