Publications

Author names in navy indicate me. ★ denotes equal contribution. Full list also available on my Google Scholar.

2026
TopoFormer: Topology Meets Attention for Graph Learning
MD J. Uddin★, A. Tola★, C. G. Akcora, B. Coskunuzer.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
ICLR OpenReview / PDF Code
Identification of Molecular Compounds Targeting Bacterial Propionate Metabolism with Topological Machine Learning
A. Tola, S. Aziz, D. Zhabilov, D. Winkler, M. Candas, B. Coskunuzer.
Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Volume 144, 109287, 2026.
bioRxiv
2025
SCNode: Spatial and Contextual Coordinates for Graph Representation Learning
MD J. Uddin, A. Tola, C. G. Akcora, B. Coskunuzer.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.
OpenReview / PDF
TopER: Topological Embeddings in Graph Representation Learning
A. Tola, F. M. Taiwo, C. G. Akcora, B. Coskunuzer.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
NeurIPS OpenReview Project page Code
PROXI: Challenging the GNNs for Link Prediction
A. Tola, J. A. Myrich, B. Coskunuzer.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.
OpenReview / PDF
2023
A Numerical Analysis of Poincaré Chaos
M. Akhmet, M. O. Fen, A. Tola.
Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity, 12(1), 183–195, 2023.
2022
Strange Non-Chaotic Attractors with Unpredictable Trajectories
M. Akhmet, M. O. Fen, A. Tola.
Journal of Vibration Testing and System Dynamics, 6(3), 317–327, 2022.
arXiv
2020
Unpredictable Strings
M. Akhmet, A. Tola.
Kazakh Mathematical Journal, 20(3), 16–22, 2020.
arXiv
Submitted / In Preparation
DuoLink: A Dual Perspective on Link Prediction via Line Graphs
A. Tola, S. Kumar, B. Coskunuzer.
Manuscript in preparation, 2026.