CADE learns dual node representations for better generalization.
problem Transductive graph embeddings cannot generalize to unseen nodes or across different graphs.
method CADE combines real-time neighborhoods with neighbor-attentioned representation, preserving known node memory.
result CADE outperforms state-of-the-art methods in generalization and context-awareness.
GraphCL learns node representations by maximizing similarity between perturbed node features.
problem Learning node representations in graph data without labeled data.
method Contrastive learning of node embeddings using graph neural networks and a loss function.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art in unsupervised node classification benchmarks.
Proposes ML-GCN for multi-label network node representation learning.
problem Complex multi-label networks with correlated labels.
method Two Siamese GCNs model node-label and label-label interactions, integrated under a unified objective function.
result Effective node representation learning with preserved label interactions.
SIGNNAP learns stable and identifiable node representations in GNNs against graph perturbations.
problem Fragility of GNN models to graph perturbations leading to unreliable node representations.
method SIGNNAP proposes a novel model that learns stable and identifiable node representations in an unsupervised manner, formalizing stability and identifiability through a contrastive objective and preserving smoothness with existing GNN backbones.
result SIGNNAP demonstrates effectiveness in learning stable and identifiable node representations in GNNs against graph perturbations on six benchmarks.
HDGI learns node representations for heterogeneous graphs.
problem Challenges in learning node representations for heterogeneous graphs.
method HDGI uses meta-path structure, graph convolution, and semantic-level attention to maximize local-global mutual information.
result HDGI outperforms state-of-the-art methods on graph-related tasks.
Graph representation learning, aiming to learn low-dimensional representations which capture the geometric dependencies between nodes in the original graph, has gained increasing popularity in a variety of graph analysis tasks, including node classification and link prediction. Existing representation learning methods …
Graph InfoClust learns node representations by capturing cluster-level information, improving graph mining tasks.
problem Leveraging cluster-level node information for unsupervised graph representation learning.
method Graph InfoClust (GIC) uses a differentiable K-means method to compute clusters and jointly optimizes mutual information between nodes of the same cluster.
result GIC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various downstream tasks with a 0.9% to 6.1% gain.
GTNs learn new graph structures and improve node representation learning.
problem Learning node representations on misspecified or heterogeneous graphs.
method Graph Transformer Networks (GTNs) that generate new graph structures and learn effective node representations.
result GTNs achieve state-of-the-art performance in node classification tasks without predefined meta-paths.
node2coords learns interpretable graph node representations robust to graph perturbations.
problem Need representations that capture graph structure and are robust to perturbations.
method Proposes a graph representation learning algorithm using Wasserstein barycenters.
result Learned representations are interpretable and stable to graph perturbations.
Proposes a graph pooling method leveraging node proximity for hierarchical graph representation learning.
problem Efficiently exploiting the geometry of graph data for hierarchical representation learning.
method Combines node proximity with kernel representation of topology and node features for adaptive node signal similarities evaluation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on graph classification benchmark datasets.
Graph representation learning aims at transforming graph data into meaningful low-dimensional vectors to facilitate the employment of machine learning and data mining algorithms designed for general data. Most current graph representation learning approaches are transductive, which means that they require all the nodes…
GSAN learns adaptive node representations using geometric scattering and attention.
problem Oversmoothing in node representation learning.
method Attention-based architecture integrating geometric scattering and GCN channels.
result GSAN outperforms previous networks in semi-supervised node classification.
Learning distributed node representations in networks has been attracting increasing attention recently due to its effectiveness in a variety of applications. Existing approaches usually study networks with a single type of proximity between nodes, which defines a single view of a network. However, in reality there usu…
This paper learns graph node representations using global context prediction.
problem Efficiently learning useful node representations from unlabeled graph data.
method Randomly selects node pairs, trains a neural net to predict contextual positions.
result Our approach outperforms many unsupervised methods and sometimes supervised ones.
DiSeNE generates interpretable node embeddings without supervision.
problem Lack of interpretability in unsupervised node embeddings.
method Disentangled representation learning with novel objective functions and metrics.
result DiSeNE produces interpretable node embeddings aligned with graph structure.
Recent interest in graph embedding methods has focused on learning a single representation for each node in the graph. But can nodes really be best described by a single vector representation? In this work, we propose a method for learning multiple representations of the nodes in a graph (e.g., the users of a social ne…
InstantEmbedding efficiently generates node representations with less computation and memory.
problem Efficiently generating local node representations for large graphs.
method Local PageRank computations in sublinear time.
result Significantly faster and less memory-intensive than traditional methods.
Inspired by the immense success of deep learning, graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used to learn powerful node representations and have demonstrated promising performance on different graph learning tasks. However, most real-world graphs often come with high-dimensional and sparse node features, rendering the le…
This paper focuses on two fundamental tasks of graph analysis: community detection and node representation learning, which capture the global and local structures of graphs, respectively. In the current literature, these two tasks are usually independently studied while they are actually highly correlated. We propose a…
Structural identity is a concept of symmetry in which network nodes are identified according to the network structure and their relationship to other nodes. Structural identity has been studied in theory and practice over the past decades, but only recently has it been addressed with representational learning technique…
Unsupervised method learns hierarchical graph representations without labels.
problem Lack of hierarchical graph representations and need for labeled data in GNNs.
method Maximizes mutual information between local and global graph representations.
result Comparable performance to supervised methods on graph classification benchmarks.
CatGCN improves GCNs by modeling feature interactions for categorical node features.
problem Suboptimal initial node representations in GCNs due to lack of feature interaction modeling.
method Integrates explicit interaction modeling (local and global) into initial node representation learning for categorical node features.
result CatGCN enhances initial node representations through feature interaction modeling, leading to improved model performance.
GOAT learns multiple node representations from graph structure alone.
problem Context-free graph representation learning limits model performance.
method Inspired by gossip and mutual attention, GOAT learns multiple node representations.
result GOAT outperforms 12 SOTA baselines on link prediction and clustering tasks.
Proposes a novel graph representation learning framework using contrastive methods.
problem Graph representation learning for graph-structured data.
method Leverages a contrastive objective at the node level, generating two graph views by corruption and learning node representations by maximizing agreement.
result Consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on transductive and inductive learning tasks.
SLiCE learns contextual node embeddings for link prediction in heterogeneous networks.
problem Link prediction requires specific contextual information not captured by static node embeddings.
method Self-supervised pre-training with localized attention mechanisms.
result SLiCE significantly outperforms existing methods on link prediction tasks.
Persona2vec learns multiple node roles in graphs.
problem Graphs often have nodes with multiple overlapping roles.
method Persona2vec learns multiple node representations based on structural contexts.
result Persona2vec outperforms state-of-the-art models in link prediction.
Auto-encoders have emerged as a successful framework for unsupervised learning. However, conventional auto-encoders are incapable of utilizing explicit relations in structured data. To take advantage of relations in graph-structured data, several graph auto-encoders have recently been proposed, but they neglect to reco…
EHNA learns node embeddings from historical network neighborhoods.
problem Capturing temporal information in evolving networks.
method Temporal random walk and deep learning model with attention mechanism.
result EHNA outperforms existing methods in network reconstruction and link prediction tasks.
We examine two fundamental tasks associated with graph representation learning: link prediction and semi-supervised node classification. We present a novel autoencoder architecture capable of learning a joint representation of both local graph structure and available node features for the multi-task learning of link pr…
Proposes FSM-IRL to learn invariant network representations considering feature and structural shifts.
problem Spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics lead to OOD generalization issues in geographic networks.
method Introduces FSM-IRL model that accounts for feature and structural distribution shifts using causal attention and reweighting.
result Demonstrates strong learning capabilities on geographic and social network datasets in OOD scenarios.
This work provides the first unifying theoretical framework for node (positional) embeddings and structural graph representations, bridging methods like matrix factorization and graph neural networks. Using invariant theory, we show that the relationship between structural representations and node embeddings is analogo…
SGE learns symbolic node representations from relational data.
problem Mining insights from complex, real-world systems.
method SGE uses frequent pattern mining on a node's neighborhood to learn symbolic node representations.
result SGE outperforms shallow node embedding methods on a venue classification task.
Graph convolutional network (GCN) is an emerging neural network approach. It learns new representation of a node by aggregating feature vectors of all neighbors in the aggregation process without considering whether the neighbors or features are useful or not. Recent methods have improved solutions by sampling a fixed …
CAGNN learns graph embeddings without labels by clustering and refining graph topology.
problem Learning graph embeddings without labeled data.
method Cluster-aware graph neural network (CAGNN) with self-supervised learning and topology refinement.
result CAGNN achieves significant improvements in node clustering accuracy.
Recently a variety of methods have been developed to encode graphs into low-dimensional vectors that can be easily exploited by machine learning algorithms. The majority of these methods start by embedding the graph nodes into a low-dimensional vector space, followed by using some scheme to aggregate the node embedding…
New sampling methods improve node embedding efficiency.
problem Efficiency and scalability in node embedding methods.
method Sampling approaches to node embedding, modeling eigenvectors and feature vectors.
result Improved computational efficiency and scalability.
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…
Learning representation for graph classification turns a variable-size graph into a fixed-size vector (or matrix). Such a representation works nicely with algebraic manipulations. Here we introduce a simple method to augment an attributed graph with a virtual node that is bidirectionally connected to all existing nodes…
GRADE models evolving graph dynamics by learning node and community representations.
problem Lack of tools to study temporal community dynamics in evolving graphs.
method GRADE is a probabilistic model that learns evolving node and community representations via a random walk prior and variational inference.
result GRADE outperforms baselines in dynamic link prediction and dynamic community detection.
Modeling generative process of growing graphs has wide applications in social networks and recommendation systems, where cold start problem leads to new nodes isolated from existing graph. Despite the emerging literature in learning graph representation and graph generation, most of them can not handle isolated new nod…
We present Deep Graph Infomax (DGI), a general approach for learning node representations within graph-structured data in an unsupervised manner. DGI relies on maximizing mutual information between patch representations and corresponding high-level summaries of graphs---both derived using established graph convolutiona…
Landmark-based node embeddings approximate shortest path distances in random graphs.
problem Capturing global graph distances in node representations.
method Landmark-based node embeddings using shortest path distances from a subset of reference nodes (landmarks).
result Random graphs require lower dimensions in landmark-based embeddings compared to worst-case graphs.
Graph kernels are kernel methods measuring graph similarity and serve as a standard tool for graph classification. However, the use of kernel methods for node classification, which is a related problem to graph representation learning, is still ill-posed and the state-of-the-art methods are heavily based on heuristics.…
GAP learns node representations by attending to different parts of its neighborhood.
problem Context-free learning of node representations in graph representation learning.
method Graph Neighborhood Attentive Pooling (GAP) using attentive pooling networks.
result GAP outperforms 10 state-of-the-art methods on link prediction and clustering tasks.
HyperSAGE learns node representations in hypergraphs without losing information.
problem Learning node representations in hypergraphs is complex due to higher-order relations.
method Two-level neural message passing strategy for accurate information propagation.
result HyperSAGE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.
A new method improves graph node embeddings by considering both nearby and distant node similarities.
problem Improving graph node embeddings by considering both nearby and distant node similarities.
method Distance-aware Negative Sampling (DNS) which maximizes cohesion at nearby node-pairs and separation at distant node-pairs.
result DNS outperforms baseline methods in downstream node classification tasks on various datasets and GRL algorithms.
SEG-BERT improves graph instance learning by adapting GRAPH-BERT.
problem Graph instance representation learning challenges due to diverse sizes and node order.
method Adapted GRAPH-BERT with a segmented architecture to handle graph node orderlessness and diverse sizes.
result SEG-BERT outperforms comparison methods on six out of seven benchmark datasets.
DIFNET tackles the suspended animation problem in deep graph neural networks.
problem Deep graph neural networks suffer from the suspended animation problem.
method DIFNET uses neural gates and graph residual learning for node hidden state modeling, and includes an attention mechanism for node neighborhood information diffusion.
result DIFNET effectively addresses the suspended animation problem and improves learning performance.