@article{learningbackbonessparsifyinggraphsthroug, title = {Learning Backbones: Sparsifying Graphs through Zero Forcing for Effective Graph-Based Learning}, author = {Obaid Ullah Ahmad and Anwar Said and Mudassir Shabbir and Xenofon Koutsoukos and Waseem Abbas}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2502.17713}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17713v1}, }