arxivcs.LG2026-07-21
One Model, Many Graphs: Learning over Attributed Graphs across Heterogeneous Modalities with Vision-Language Models
Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun, Jiajin Liu, Qiaoyu Tan
Vision-language models (VLMs) provide a unified representation space for textual and visual information, yet their potential as general-purpose backbones for graph-structured data remains largely unexplored. In practice, attributed graphs exhibit substantial modality heterogeneit…