A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 7, covering The perfect-GNN thought experiment, Three levels of standard-GNN failure, Identity-aware encoding while documenting unavailable classroom material.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 8, covering Self-attention and message passing, The scope of graph attention, Positional and structural encodings while documenting unavailable classroom material.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 9, covering Heterogeneous graph schemas, Relation-specific messages, R-GCN while documenting unavailable classroom material.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 10, covering Knowledge graphs and completion, Triple scoring, TransE and relation patterns while documenting unavailable classroom material.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 11, covering Graph formulation of recommendation, The matrix-factorization baseline, Message passing in NGCF while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 12, covering Limits of the tabular pipeline, Mapping relational databases to graphs, Temporal entity graphs while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 13, covering The multi-relational bottleneck, RelGNN composite message passing, Relation-specific aggregation while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 14, covering The goal of relational foundation models, Zero-shot relational transfer, PRODIGY's prompt graph while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 15, covering Limits of transductive KG embeddings, Entity-inductive link prediction, The relation graph while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 16, covering Complementary gaps in LLMs and GNNs, Text-attributed graphs, The LLM as predictor or encoder while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 17, covering From graph QA to agents, Multimodal retrieval in STaRK, Tool use and traversal while documenting the public-material boundary.
A Fall 2025 slide-grounded reconstruction of Lecture 18, covering The graph-generation problem and representation, Evaluating generation quality, GraphRNN's autoregressive factorization while documenting the public-material boundary.
The Fall 2025 conclusion studies roughly 315K GNN designs across 32 tasks: run a small set of anchor models, derive task similarity from rankings, and transfer the best designs from similar tasks.
Steel packages Chromium sessions, CDP, proxies, stealth, and debugging behind an Apache-2.0 browser API. Its public repository has about 7,400 stars and it entered the Stripe Projects developer preview in 2026. Self-hosting fits development and data-control needs; Cloud addresses concurrency, managed proxies, CAPTCHA, recordings, and SLAs.
Together AI puts serverless APIs for open-weight models, dedicated GPU endpoints, batch inference, and fine-tuning on one platform, letting teams validate per token before moving to reserved deployment when traffic or customization justifies it.
Vapi connects phone and web audio, STT, LLMs, TTS, tool calls, and call observability in a managed voice runtime. Providers are swappable, but Vapi's realtime orchestration is not portable. In May 2026, the company reported one million developers and announced a $50 million Series B.
Vercel Sandbox isolates untrusted code in Firecracker microVMs and integrates with Fluid compute, Active CPU pricing, and Vercel OIDC. It fits agents already running on Vercel, but network defaults, memory billing, and persistence still require deliberate design.
Vertex AI is more than the Gemini API: it puts access to 200+ models, training, evaluation, deployment, and governance under one Google Cloud control plane. Since April 2026, its products and roadmap have moved into Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, while the Vertex AI API, documentation paths, and many resource names remain in active use.
Extraction tools cannot be compared by HTTP 200s. The same 20 URLs must be scored for body text, headings, tables, code, links, metadata, noise, latency, and cost. This article publishes the corpus, adapter contract, and gates, but no winner without a same-version raw run across all four paths.
Zep does not merely vectorize chat history. It turns episodes into entities and facts with validity time, allowing new information to invalidate an old relationship without erasing history. Graphiti is the open-source framework; Zep adds managed scale and governance.