Message Tuning Outshines Graph Prompt Tuning: A Prismatic Space Perspective 文章

ArXiv CS.AI2026-06-03NEWSen作者: Yancheng Chen, Dun Ma, Shuai Zhang, Yang Liu, Xixun Lin, Xiangyu Zhao, Wenguo Yang, Wei Chen, Chuan Zhou

摘要

arXiv:2606.03290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Foundation Models (GFMs), built upon the Pre-training and Adaptation paradigm, have emerged as a research hotspot in graph learning. For GNN-based GFMs, graph prompt tuning has become the prevailing adaptation method for downstream tasks. Although recent methods explain why graph prompt tuning works, how to rigorously measure its adaptation capacity remains an open problem. Addressing this problem is critical for understanding the capability limits of graph prompt tuning and for developing more powerful adaptation methods. In this paper, we propose Prismatic Space Theory (PS-Theory), a novel mathematical framework to quantify the capacity of adaptation methods, while focusing on establishing the upper bound for the adaptation capacity of graph prompt tuning.