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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 17, 2026
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This is a theoretical paper proposing a unified mathematical framework—a common layer equation with seven components—to represent diverse graph neural network architectures. The work includes algebraic reductions of canonical layers and derives theoretical insights about operator support and global mixing under specific hypotheses, but presents no empirical validation, experimental results, or outcome comparisons.
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A common layer equation with seven components (update domain, channel set, propagation bank, per-channel message maps, channel-fusion operator, ego/residual map, update map) unifies representations across architectures. Framework covers more than 200 architectures in a common design space. Theoretical result: under endpoint-local messages and node-local updates, operator support bounds one-layer dependencies.
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A theoretical framework paper that proposes a unifying mathematical formulation for graph neural networks, raises mechanistic insights about operator support and mixing, but does not present empirical validation or clinical/practical outcome data.
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Graph neural networks are commonly described through family-specific equations whose notation obscures shared computations and structural differences. We introduce a common layer equation that represents covered architectures through seven components: an update domain, channel set, propagation bank, per-channel message maps, channel-fusion operator, ego/residual map, and update map. The central factorization separates where information moves, encoded by the propagation bank, from what moves, encoded by the message maps. Function-valued fillings extend the same equation across local message passing, attention, spectral filtering, global communication, relation-specific channels, higher-order domains, and geometric messages. We make this unification explicit and checkable through worked reductions of canonical layers and component assignments spanning seven nonexclusive architectural families. A fixed slot discipline assigns operations by computational role and defines the framework's coverage boundary. The decomposition also yields component-level theoretical insights: under endpoint-local messages and node-local updates, operator support bounds one-layer dependencies, and one-layer global mixing requires a full effective operator row under the stated hypotheses. The resulting framework organizes more than 200 architectures in a common design space, enables component-wise comparison and generation of structurally consistent architectures, and connects propagation choices to oversmoothing, oversquashing, heterophily, and expressivity. It further exposes the empirical inverse problem of mapping measurable graph and task properties to validated component choices.
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