Track: Track1; Team name: PushparajD; Model: Generalized PageRank GNN

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Description

Adds GPR-GNN (Generalized PageRank GNN) as a Track 1 graph backbone.

● Chien, Peng, Li, Milenkovic. Adaptive Universal Generalized PageRank Graph Neural Network, ICLR 2021 arXiv:2006.07988
● code: jianhao2016/GPRGNN.

GPR-GNN keeps feature learning and propagation separate. An MLP encodes the node features; a propagation step then takes a weighted sum over K hops of the symmetric-normalised adjacency, with the per-hop weights γ₀…γ_K learned jointly with the rest of the model. Those weights are unconstrained in sign, so the effective filter can land anywhere from low-pass to high-pass. Which is why one architecture copes with both homophilic and heterophilic graphs, the axis GraphUniverse sweeps.

Files in this PR

• topobench/nn/backbones/graph/gprgnn.py : the propagation layer GPRProp (a MessagePassing module) and the GPRGNN model. PPR / NPPR / Random / SGC / WS initialisations are all supported, and the docstrings point back to the paper's equations.
• configs/model/graph/gprgnn.yaml : Hydra config built on GNNWrapper + NoReadOut; one config covers both the node task (community detection) and the graph task (triangle counting).
• test/nn/backbones/graph/test_gprgnn.py : 13 tests, 100% coverage of the backbone. As well as shapes and gradients, they pin down model invariants: K=0 is the identity, SGC init is a single-hop filter, the output is permutation-equivariant, and the γ weights actually receive gradient. As an external reference check, PPR-initialised propagation is asserted to match PyG's official APPNP bit-for-bit (APPNP is exactly the PPR special case of GPR's weights), validating the normalisation, hop recursion, and aggregation against a trusted implementation.
• test/pipeline/test_pipeline.py : registers graph/gprgnn for the CI MUTAG integration test.
• 2026_tdl_challenge/outputs/.../results.json : GraphUniverse grid output

Adaptations Made for TopoBench

• The backbone returns node embeddings, not class scores, the readout is the classifier - so I dropped the reference model's final log_softmax.
• forward(x, edge_index, edge_weight=None, **kwargs) swallows the extra arguments GNNWrapper passes, and the hidden width is kept equal to the encoder width so the wrapper's residual add is well-formed.
• The config points at the fully-qualified class path. The backbone loader executes each file under a generated module name, which trips PyG's MessagePassing signature inspector unless the class resolves to its real module. GPR-GNN is the first message-passing backbone in the repo, so this only shows up now.

Cost. Propagation is K sparse products on the normalised adjacency - O(K·E·d) time, O(N·d) memory. Plus the MLP, with only K+1 extra scalars. At the benchmarked size (width 64, K=10, α=0.1, PPR init) the backbone is ~8.3K parameters.

How results.json was produced

The shipped evaluation notebook can't run as-is. Its guard cell compares a stored hash (f87b2cf…) against the hash of its own remaining cells (3c1d784…), they differ, and it raises ValueError before doing anything. Rather than touch the notebook or utils.py, I called the two functions it wraps, run_challenge_grid and save_challenge_artifacts, which run the same grid and emit the same JSON.

Issue

Submission to the TDL Challenge 2026, Track 1 (GNNs).

Additional context

Tested with the project environment (Python 3.11, torch 2.3.0). ruff (lint + format), numpydoc validation, and the 12 backbone unit tests (100% coverage) all pass locally; the MUTAG pipeline test passes.