Graph-structured data is prevalent in various domains like social networks, biological systems, and recommender systems.
Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) aim to extend the success of foundation models in natural language processing and vision to graphs, which present unique challenges and opportunities due to their non-Euclidean structures.
The survey provides a comprehensive overview of GFMs, categorizing them based on generalization scope and highlighting key components such as backbone architectures, pretraining strategies, and adaptation mechanisms.
GFMs are seen as foundational infrastructure for reasoning over structured data, addressing challenges such as structural alignment, heterogeneity, scalability, and evaluation.