Network Denoising Revisited: A Ricci-Flow-Inspired Graph Diffusion Method

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arXiv:2608.16923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Networks provide a fundamental representation of relationships among entities. However, real-world networks are often corrupted by noise caused by measurement errors and inherent stochasticity, hindering the discovery of meaningful structure. Most denoising methods rely on similarity-driven diffusion and ignore the non-Euclidean geometry of graphs, where local variations induce heterogeneous information transport. This motivates a geometric revisit of network denoising. In this work, we propose Ricci-Diffusion, a curvature-guided graph diffusion method inspired by Ricci flow. Specifically, Ricci-Diffusion exhibits a Ricci-flow-like evolution, in which relative edge-level curvature modulates local transport in the diffusion kernel and guides edge-weight updates toward a more regular graph geometry. We further provide a theoretical analysis showing that curvature can distinguish graph structures that common similarity-driven diffusion kernels fail to separate, and that curvature induces first-order corrections in one-step diffusion updates. The resulting diffusion process explicitly characterizes transport heterogeneity across local geometries and admits theoretical convergence to a stable denoised network. Results on real-world and synthetic graphs show that curvature-guided updates and curvature homogenization improve structure recovery and downstream performance.

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