{ "dataset": "PathMNIST (9-class colon pathology, 64x64)", "num_train": 800, "num_val": 200, "num_test": 200, "epochs": 25, "hidden_dim": 64, "k_nn": 6, "patch_size": 8, "patch_stride": 6, "nodes_per_graph": 100, "feature_dim": 38, "main_results": { "TopoHyper": { "test_acc": 0.820, "test_f1_macro": 0.7116, "val_acc": 0.830, "params": 94858 }, "GCN": { "test_acc": 0.815, "test_f1_macro": 0.7096, "val_acc": 0.830, "params": 17161 }, "Simplicial": { "test_acc": 0.815, "test_f1_macro": 0.7096, "val_acc": 0.810, "params": 17417 }, "HGNN": { "test_acc": 0.810, "test_f1_macro": 0.6848, "val_acc": 0.795, "params": 17161 }, "SimpleHybrid": { "test_acc": 0.785, "test_f1_macro": 0.6731, "val_acc": 0.785, "params": 14537 }, "GAT": { "test_acc": 0.770, "test_f1_macro": 0.6765, "val_acc": 0.780, "params": 17801 } }, "ablation_results": { "Full (Bridge + Attention)": { "test_acc": 0.820, "val_acc": 0.830 }, "No Attention (Bridge only)": { "test_acc": 0.830, "val_acc": 0.835 }, "Neither (Average fusion)": { "test_acc": 0.805, "val_acc": 0.810 }, "No Bridge (Attention only)": { "test_acc": 0.785, "val_acc": 0.790 } }, "key_findings": [ "TopoHyper achieves best test accuracy (82.0%) among all models", "Bridge matrix is the most critical component - removing it drops accuracy by 3.5%", "Cross-structure attention provides modest gains (+1.5%) when bridge is present", "Simple concatenation hybrid (SimpleHybrid) underperforms standalone baselines - naive fusion hurts", "GAT is the weakest baseline, suggesting attention alone is insufficient for this task", "The bridge-only variant (83.0%) actually outperforms the full model - simpler may be better" ] }