OpenRTAG: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Text-Attributed Graph Learning under Data Quality Degradation

Abstract

Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) are an important graph data form that combine relational structure with rich node text. However, real-world TAGs are often imperfect, with quality issues arising from text, structure, and labels, and typically manifesting as sparsity, noise, and imbalance. These dimensions define nine representative degradation scenarios that can substantially affect TAG learning. Although prior studies have explored specific mitigation strategies, existing evidence remains fragmented across degradation types, datasets, tasks, and model families, leaving TAG robustness insufficiently understood. To address this gap, we present OpenRTAG, a robustness benchmark for text-attributed graph learning. OpenRTAG organizes TAG quality issues into a unified 3 * 3 taxonomy and supports standardized evaluation across nine TAG datasets and three downstream tasks. It systematically evaluates scenario validity and model sensitivity, compares traditional GNNs, LLM-GNNs, and a representative GFM, investigates the effectiveness, efficiency, and robustness of scenario-matched baselines, and further examines model behavior under composite degradation scenarios. OpenRTAG provides a standardized testbed for understanding robustness in TAG learning under realistic low-quality settings.