This paper improves spectral embedding for multipartite networks, revealing latent subspaces and providing consistent node representations.
problem Improving spectral embedding for multipartite networks to better represent node types.
method Developed a follow-on step to spectral embedding that recovers node representations in their intrinsic rather than ambient dimension, proving consistency under a specific model.
result Node representations in multipartite networks lie near type-specific subspaces, and the proposed method recovers these representations consistently.
SyNGLER generates synthetic networks efficiently while preserving key structural properties.
problem Efficiently generating realistic synthetic networks with preserved structural properties.
method SyNGLER uses latent space network models to learn and reconstruct node embeddings, then generates synthetic networks.
result SyNGLER produces synthetic networks that better preserve key network characteristics than existing approaches.
GCNs learn by embedding similar nodes within a class and leveraging consistent neighborhood structures.
problem Understanding how GCNs perform semi-supervised node classification on both homophilous and heterophilous graphs.
method Investigated the latent node embeddings and neighborhood structures of GCNs.
result GCNs learn by embedding similar nodes within a class and leveraging consistent neighborhood structures.
AUASE embeds dynamic networks with stability guarantees for node comparison.
problem Stability in dynamic network embeddings for comparing nodes across time.
method Attributed unfolded adjacency spectral embedding (AUASE) for stable unsupervised learning.
result AUASE provides significant improvements in link prediction and node classification.
Learning representations of nodes in a low dimensional space is a crucial task with many interesting applications in network analysis, including link prediction and node classification. Two popular approaches for this problem include matrix factorization and random walk-based models. In this paper, we aim to bring toge…
The paper predicts responses on out-of-sample nodes using latent positions on unknown curves.
problem Predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes with latent positions on unknown curves.
method Manifold learning and graph embedding technique using latent positions.
result Convergence guarantees for predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes.
We present network embedding algorithms that capture information about a node from the local distribution over node attributes around it, as observed over random walks following an approach similar to Skip-gram. Observations from neighborhoods of different sizes are either pooled (AE) or encoded distinctly in a multi-s…
Regularization preserves topological data structure in autoencoders.
problem Ensuring topological data structure preservation in autoencoders.
method Regularization using Legendre nodes to preserve manifold embedding.
result Regularized autoencoders ensure one-to-one embedding of data manifolds.
New method embeds dynamic networks with stability for node behavior.
problem Embed time-evolving node representations with stability.
method Unfolded adjacency spectral embedding for dynamic networks.
result Method satisfies cross-sectional and longitudinal stability.
Latent Euclidean embedding models a given network by representing each node in a Euclidean space, where the probability of two nodes sharing an edge is a function of the distances between the nodes. This implies that for two nodes to share an edge with high probability, they must be relatively close in all dimensions. …
Extends random dot product graph model to handle multiple graphs.
problem Modeling and analyzing multiple graphs with shared nodes.
method Jointly embed adjacency matrices into a latent space.
result Node representations converge to latent positions with Gaussian error.
AnomalyDAE detects anomalies in networks by learning cross-modality interactions.
problem Detecting anomalies in attributed networks where structure and attributes interact.
method Dual autoencoder framework with attention mechanism for joint learning of structure and attribute embeddings.
result AnomalyDAE effectively detects anomalies by reconstructing node attributes and structures.
Recent research on network embedding in hyperbolic space have proven successful in several applications. However, nodes in real world networks tend to interact through several distinct channels. Simple aggregation or ignorance of this multiplexity will lead to misleading results. On the other hand, there exists redunda…
Paper shows graphs can be embedded in lower dimensions than expected.
problem Choosing the right embedding dimension for graph analysis.
method Utilizes hidden manifold structure to predict lower-dimensional embedding.
result Graphs can be embedded in much lower dimensions than previously thought.
Methods that learn representations of nodes in a graph play a critical role in network analysis since they enable many downstream learning tasks. We propose Graph2Gauss - an approach that can efficiently learn versatile node embeddings on large scale (attributed) graphs that show strong performance on tasks such as lin…
Tiered latent representations and latent spaces for molecular graphs provide a simple but effective way to explicitly represent and utilize groups (e.g., functional groups), which consist of the atom (node) tier, the group tier and the molecule (graph) tier. They can be learned using the tiered graph autoencoder archit…
We present a method to estimate block membership of nodes in a random graph generated by a stochastic blockmodel. We use an embedding procedure motivated by the random dot product graph model, a particular example of the latent position model. The embedding associates each node with a vector; these vectors are clustere…
A new method for efficient structural node embeddings using Von Neumann entropy.
problem Efficiently identifying structurally equivalent nodes in complex networks.
method VNEstruct: a simple approach generating low-dimensional structural node embeddings using Von Neumann entropy.
result VNEstruct achieves robustness on structural role identification and state-of-the-art performance on graph classification tasks.
A framework for stable dynamic network embeddings using static methods.
problem Dynamic network embedding in a nascent field.
method Using static network embedding methods on dilated unfolded adjacency matrices.
result Stable embeddings that preserve latent node behavior across time.
Inferencing with network data necessitates the mapping of its nodes into a vector space, where the relationships are preserved. However, with multi-layered networks, where multiple types of relationships exist for the same set of nodes, it is crucial to exploit the information shared between layers, in addition to the …
Network representation learning (NRL) methods aim to map each vertex into a low dimensional space by preserving the local and global structure of a given network, and in recent years they have received a significant attention thanks to their success in several challenging problems. Although various approaches have been…
This paper studies clustering and embedding in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture block models.
problem Clustering and embedding in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture block models.
method Spectral clustering and embedding algorithms for graphs sampled from Gaussian mixture block models.
result Performance analysis of spectral clustering and embedding algorithms for 2-component spherical Gaussian mixtures.
Extract common latent factors from graphs for better representation learning.
problem Graph-level representation learning challenges due to limited labeled data and poor negative sample selection.
method Graph-wise Common Latent Factor Extraction (GCFX) using deepGCFX model.
result Improved graph-level and node-level tasks performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The paper corrects for node degree in spectral clustering using random walk Laplacian.
problem Node degree heterogeneity in spectral clustering.
method Graph spectral embedding using the random walk Laplacian.
result The embedding provides uniformly consistent estimates of degree-corrected latent positions.
The paper shows how to recover true node positions from a graph or similarity matrix.
problem Recovering true distances and positions from a graph or similarity matrix.
method Two steps: matrix factorisation followed by nonlinear dimension reduction.
result Nonlinear dimension reduction can recover latent positions close to a manifold where geodesic distance is encoded.
Representing networks in a low dimensional latent space is a crucial task with many interesting applications in graph learning problems, such as link prediction and node classification. A widely applied network representation learning paradigm is based on the combination of random walks for sampling context nodes and t…
MetaTNE tackles few-shot novel labels in graphs, improving node classification.
problem Node classification on graphs with novel labels and limited training data.
method MetaTNE framework with structural, meta-learning, and optimization modules.
result MetaTNE significantly improves node classification over state-of-the-art methods.
Network embedding methodologies, which learn a distributed vector representation for each vertex in a network, have attracted considerable interest in recent years. Existing works have demonstrated that vertex representation learned through an embedding method provides superior performance in many real-world applicatio…
Method detects anomalies on attributed graphs with few labeled instances.
problem Detecting anomalies on connected instances (attributed graphs) with limited labeled data.
method Embed nodes in latent space using GCNs, training to distinguish normal and anomalous nodes.
result Method outperforms existing methods on real-world attributed graph datasets.
The Fisher information metric is an important foundation of information geometry, wherein it allows us to approximate the local geometry of a probability distribution. Recurrent neural networks such as the Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) networks that have lately been used to yield state-of-the-art performance on speech…
Two new methods improve graph embedding without needing a complete graph structure.
problem Graph autoencoders' performance depends on the adjacency matrix quality.
method BAGE and VBAGE: unsupervised graph embedding via adaptive graph learning.
result The methods expand GAEs' applicability to datasets without graph structure.
A new model clusters networks with community-specific submanifold structures.
problem Clustering networks with community-specific submanifold structures.
method Latent Structure Block Models (LSBM) for Bayesian spectral graph clustering.
result LSBM correctly recovers underlying communities in one-dimensional manifold structures.
Network embedding algorithms are able to learn latent feature representations of nodes, transforming networks into lower dimensional vector representations. Typical key applications, which have effectively been addressed using network embeddings, include link prediction, multilabel classification and community detectio…
We propose a new STAcked and Reconstructed Graph Convolutional Networks (STAR-GCN) architecture to learn node representations for boosting the performance in recommender systems, especially in the cold start scenario. STAR-GCN employs a stack of GCN encoder-decoders combined with intermediate supervision to improve the…
Develops MENT for interpreting and detecting changes in network trajectories.
problem Distortion of network geometry and invalidation of temporal comparisons in dynamic network analysis.
method Develops Multiscale Euclidean Network Trajectories (MENT) framework based on second-moment geometry.
result Validates and interprets network trajectories through isotropic normalization and orthogonal transformations.
Node embeddings have become an ubiquitous technique for representing graph data in a low dimensional space. Graph autoencoders, as one of the widely adapted deep models, have been proposed to learn graph embeddings in an unsupervised way by minimizing the reconstruction error for the graph data. However, its reconstruc…
Network embedding represents nodes in a continuous vector space and preserves structure information from the Network. Existing methods usually adopt a "one-size-fits-all" approach when concerning multi-scale structure information, such as first- and second-order proximity of nodes, ignoring the fact that different scal…
New spectral clustering method for graphs with uneven node degrees.
problem Challenges in community detection for graphs with heterogeneous degree distributions.
method Spectral clustering on spherical coordinates with degree correction.
result Improved performance in representing computer networks.
L2G2G improves graph autoencoder accuracy without sacrificing scalability.
problem Scalability issues in graph autoencoders for large networks.
method Dynamic synchronization of latent node representations in each epoch.
result L2G2G achieves higher accuracy than standard Local2Global approach on large and dense networks.
Graph embedding is an effective method to represent graph data in a low dimensional space for graph analytics. Most existing embedding algorithms typically focus on preserving the topological structure or minimizing the reconstruction errors of graph data, but they have mostly ignored the data distribution of the laten…
Attention improves edge prediction in e-commerce graphs.
problem Predicting edges in graphs from node attributes in e-commerce.
method Used attention mechanism in simple feedforward networks, derived analytically tractable model AttEST.
result Attention network outperforms LSTM architectures by over 20% on F-1 score.
We unify subsampling methods for network embeddings and prove their asymptotic distribution.
problem Understanding and improving the performance of network embeddings learned via subsampling.
method Unified framework for node2vec-like methods, proving asymptotic distribution under exchangeable graph assumption.
result Asymptotic distribution of learned embedding vectors decouples and provides rates of convergence.
Spectral embedding is a procedure which can be used to obtain vector representations of the nodes of a graph. This paper proposes a generalisation of the latent position network model known as the random dot product graph, to allow interpretation of those vector representations as latent position estimates. The general…
Enhances graph modeling with hyperbolic geometry and variational inference.
problem Challenges in modeling relational data with complex dependencies.
method Semi-implicit hierarchical variational Bayes with Poincaré embedding and mutual information regularization.
result Improves graph representation quality and flexibility in edge prediction and node classification.
Network embedding has proved extremely useful in a variety of network analysis tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and network visualization. Almost all the existing network embedding methods learn to map the node IDs to their corresponding node embeddings. This design principle, however, hinders the ex…
Paper proves impossibility of three desirable properties in node embedding.
problem Understanding limitations of node embedding methods.
method Axiomatic approach to node embedding, proving impossibility of three properties.
result No node embedding method can satisfy all three desirable properties simultaneously.
Study finds significant instability in node embeddings due to randomness.
problem Stability of node embeddings under random variations.
method Evaluated five node embedding algorithms (HOPE, LINE, node2vec, SDNE, GraphSAGE) on synthetic and empirical graphs.
result Significant instability in embedding spaces and downstream task accuracy.
Learning latent representations of nodes in graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with widespread applications such as link prediction, node classification, and graph visualization. Previous methods on graph representation learning mainly focus on static graphs, however, many real-world graphs are dynamic and evol…