Graph data augmentation improves GNN performance in node classification.
problem Improving generalizability of graph neural networks (GNNs) in semi-supervised node classification.
method Introduces GAug framework for graph data augmentation using neural edge predictors.
result GAug framework improves GNN-based node classification performance across various architectures and datasets.
Augments graph node features to improve GNN performance.
problem Improving graph neural networks' performance on large-scale datasets.
method Iteratively augments node features with gradient-based adversarial perturbations.
result Boosts model performance in node classification, link prediction, and graph classification tasks.
Augments GNNs with diversification to preserve node identity.
problem Current GNNs filter node information, potentially losing node identity.
method Integrates diversification operators with aggregation to enrich node representations.
result Significant performance boost on 9 node classification tasks.
iGCL preserves graph semantics in latent space augmentations.
problem Manual tuning of augmentation ratios and unexpected graph changes.
method iGCL uses a Variational Graph Auto-Encoder to learn augmentations in the latent space, optimizing an upper bound for contrastive loss.
result iGCL achieves state-of-the-art performance on graph-level and node-level tasks.
ARGEW improves node embeddings for weighted homophilous graphs by emphasizing strong edge weights.
problem Lack of accurate node embeddings for weighted homophilous graphs.
method ARGEW (Augmentation of Random walks by Graph Edge Weights) augments random walks by emphasizing nodes with larger edge weights.
result ARGEW produces embeddings where node pairs with strong edge weights have closer embeddings.
We prove a criterion of convergence in the augmented Teichmueller space that can be phrased in terms of convergence of the hyperbolic metrics or of quasiconformal convergence away from the nodes.
SONODEs and ANODEs improve learning of second order dynamics.
problem Learning dynamics governed by second order laws.
method Extended adjoint sensitivity method and theoretical analysis of ANODEs.
result SONODEs and ANODEs can learn higher order dynamics efficiently.
PiNGDA learns beneficial noise for graph augmentation stability.
problem Challenges in generating effective and stable graph augmentations.
method PiNGDA uses positive-incentive noise to scientifically analyze and generate beneficial graph augmentations.
result PiNGDA improves GCL performance by learning beneficial noise on graph topology and attributes.
SAIL improves graph node representation learning by distilling knowledge between graphs.
problem Improving graph node representation learning with GNNs in unsupervised scenarios.
method SAIL framework with intra- and inter-graph knowledge distillation.
result SAIL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on various benchmark datasets.
This study compares GNNs and GA-MLPs, finding GA-MLPs can distinguish graphs but not count walks.
problem Comparing expressive power and graph isomorphism testing capabilities of GNNs and GA-MLPs.
method GA-MLPs augment node features with multi-hop operators and apply MLPs node-wise; GNNs are compared as a baseline.
result GA-MLPs can distinguish almost all non-isomorphic graphs but cannot count attributed walks, unlike GNNs.
This work shows dimension regularization can replace skip-gram negative sampling for graph embeddings, improving efficiency and performance.
problem Efficiently enforcing dissimilarity among node embeddings in graph learning.
method Dimension regularization as an alternative to skip-gram negative sampling.
result Dimension regularization is a more efficient approach to enforcing dissimilarity in graph embeddings.
A novel fully asynchronous scheme for distributed reinforcement learning over networks.
problem Policy evaluation in distributed reinforcement learning over networks.
method Design of a stochastic average gradient (SAG) based distributed algorithm and push-pull augmented graph approach.
result The proposed algorithm converges at a linear rate of \(\mathcal{O}(c^k)\) with \(c\in(0,1)\) and \(k\) increasing by one per node update.
We introduce the concept of Hypoelliptic Diffusion Maps (HDM), a framework generalizing Diffusion Maps in the context of manifold learning and dimensionality reduction. Standard non-linear dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., LLE, ISOMAP, Laplacian Eigenmaps, Diffusion Maps) focus on mining massive data sets using w…
Graph Random Neural Network improves semi-supervised learning on graphs.
problem Over-smoothing, non-robustness, and weak-generalization in GNNs with few labeled nodes.
method Random propagation strategy and consistency regularization.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art GNN baselines on semi-supervised node classification.
Embedded markup of Web pages has seen widespread adoption throughout the past years driven by standards such as RDFa and Microdata and initiatives such as schema.org, where recent studies show an adoption by 39% of all Web pages already in 2016. While this constitutes an important information source for tasks such as W…
GraphACL learns graph representations without augmentation or homophily assumptions.
problem Learning graph representations on heterophilic graphs (nodes with different labels and features).
method Asymmetric Contrastive Learning for Graphs (GraphACL) considers an asymmetric view of neighboring nodes.
result GraphACL significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both homophilic and heterophilic graphs.
Enhances GNNs by improving input data quality from topology and labels.
problem Poor quality of graph data limits GNN performance.
method Improves graph data quality using model outputs for better semi-supervised node classification.
result SEG consistently improves GNN performance across various datasets.
The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model for community structure in networks. Typically, only the adjacency matrix is used to perform SBM parameter inference. In this paper, we consider circumstances in which nodes have an associated vector of continuous attributes that are also used to learn the node-…
Graph Neural Networks struggle with generalization, especially OOD data; GRATIN solves this with Gaussian Mixture Model-based augmentation.
problem Graph Neural Networks struggle with generalization, particularly to unseen or out-of-distribution data.
method Theoretical framework using Rademacher complexity to compute a regret bound on generalization error. GRATIN algorithm leveraging Gaussian Mixture Models for efficient data augmentation.
result GRATIN outperforms existing augmentation techniques in terms of generalization and offers improved time complexity.
Graph structured data provide two-fold information: graph structures and node attributes. Numerous graph-based algorithms rely on both information to achieve success in supervised tasks, such as node classification and link prediction. However, node attributes could be missing or incomplete, which significantly deterio…
ELCO enhances graph generation by adding new nodes and edges.
problem Improving graph-based semi-supervised learning performance.
method ELCO simulates graph signal generation to add new nodes and edges.
result ELCO significantly boosts model performance on various datasets.
Recently, data augmentation in the semi-supervised regime, where unlabeled data vastly outnumbers labeled data, has received a considerable attention. In this paper, we describe an efficient technique for this task, exploiting a recent framework we proposed for missing data imputation called graph imputation neural net…
We propose a probabilistic framework for modelling and exploring the latent structure of relational data. Given feature information for the nodes in a network, the scalable deep generative relational model (SDREM) builds a deep network architecture that can approximate potential nonlinear mappings between nodes' featur…
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…
Graph contrastive learning reveals unique inductive biases.
problem Understanding and optimizing graph contrastive learning methods.
method Systematic study of various GCL methods and their properties.
result GCL methods can work without positive or negative samples, and data augmentations have less impact.
New framework for dense weighted networks with community-specific patterns.
problem Dense networks with varying edge weights across communities.
method Proposes a new model with functions mapping node characteristics to edge weights, requiring few parameters.
result Developed a bootstrap methodology for generating new networks.
BGNN improves GNN by modeling interactions between neighbor nodes.
problem Existing GNN models fail to capture interactions between neighbor nodes, leading to suboptimal performance.
method Proposes a new graph convolution operator that augments the weighted sum with pairwise interactions of neighbor nodes.
result Empirical results show BGNN models outperform traditional GNN models in node classification accuracy.
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.
Learning continuous representations of nodes is attracting growing interest in both academia and industry recently, due to their simplicity and effectiveness in a variety of applications. Most of existing node embedding algorithms and systems are capable of processing networks with hundreds of thousands or a few millio…
HyperBERT enhances BERT for node classification on text-attributed hypergraphs.
problem Challenges in capturing hypergraph structure and text attributes in node classification.
method Mixing hypergraph-aware layers with BERT for improved node classification.
result HyperBERT achieves state-of-the-art results on text-attributed hypergraph benchmarks.
We propose an AdaPtive Noise Augmentation (PANDA) technique to regularize the estimation and construction of undirected graphical models. PANDA iteratively optimizes the objective function given the noise augmented data until convergence to achieve regularization on model parameters. The augmented noises can be designe…
Proposes a method to forecast spatial-temporal data with limited training data.
problem Forecasting with nodes having no temporal training data.
method Temporal data augmentation and spatial graph topology learning.
result Improves forecasting performance on nodes without training data.
MBExplainer provides explanations for models combining graph embeddings and tabular features.
problem Explaining models using a mix of graph embeddings and tabular features.
method Model-agnostic approach using Shapley values and Monte Carlo Tree Search.
result MBExplainer efficiently finds human-readable explanations for model predictions.
We present an algorithm for classification tasks on big data. Experiments conducted as part of this study indicate that the algorithm can be as accurate as ensemble methods such as random forests or gradient boosted trees. Unlike ensemble methods, the models produced by the algorithm can be easily interpreted. The algo…
Study optimal spectral estimator for semi-supervised node classification.
problem Semi-supervised node classification on CSBM with limited labels.
method Spectral estimator inspired by PCA, graph ridge regression, GCN.
result Achieves information-theoretical threshold for exact recovery.
We consider a deep ReLU / Leaky ReLU student network trained from the output of a fixed teacher network of the same depth, with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The student network is \emph{over-realized}: at each layer l, the number nl of student nodes is more than that (ml) of teacher. Under mild conditions…
SMP model preserves proximity and permutation in graph neural networks.
problem Challenges in graph mining, such as community and leader finding.
method Stochastic Message Passing (SMP) model that maintains proximity and permutation-equivariance.
result SMP model effectively preserves node proximities and permutation-equivariance.
Improves GCNNs with node transition probabilities and DropNode regularization.
problem Over-fitting and over-smoothing issues in GCNNs.
method Message passing based on node transition probabilities and DropNode regularization.
result Improved GCNNs with better node representations and reduced over-fitting and over-smoothing.
Bayesian graph contrastive learning improves uncertainty quantification for graph analytics.
problem Uncertainty quantification for node representations in graph contrastive learning.
method Proposes a Bayesian framework to learn stochastic encoders representing nodes as distributions, providing uncertainty estimates.
result Significant improvement in performance on benchmark datasets compared to existing methods.
In this paper, we study the problem of author identification under double-blind review setting, which is to identify potential authors given information of an anonymized paper. Different from existing approaches that rely heavily on feature engineering, we propose to use network embedding approach to address the proble…
A new multi-task learning estimator improves Gaussian graphical regression model fitting.
problem High error rate in fitting Gaussian graphical regression models due to separate node-wise lasso regressions.
method Proposes a multi-task learning estimator with cross-task group sparsity and within-task element-wise sparsity penalties, solved via an efficient augmented Lagrangian algorithm.
result Error rate improvement over separate node-wise lasso estimates, demonstrated through simulations and application to gene co-expression network study.
We present a probabilistic framework for overlapping community discovery and link prediction for relational data, given as a graph. The proposed framework has: (1) a deep architecture which enables us to infer multiple layers of latent features/communities for each node, providing superior link prediction performance o…
TOGL adds topological info to GNNs, improving graph and node classification.
problem Graph neural networks lack substructure awareness, especially cycles.
method Integrates global topological information using persistent homology.
result Improves predictive performance for graph and node classification.
Generative model for creating graphs with new communities.
problem Generating graphs with a new community structure.
method Fit Gaussian mixture model to latent space data and add new clusters based on MDL principle.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness of GCA for generating graphs with new community structures.
Scattering GCN improves graph neural networks by filtering oversmoothing.
problem Oversmoothing in GCNs limits their ability to distinguish graph nodes.
method Augmenting GCNs with geometric scattering transforms and residual convolutions.
result Scattering GCN outperforms GAT in semi-supervised node classification.
CAMEL embeds data into a manifold using curvature-augmented forces.
problem Data visualization and dimensionality reduction.
method Formulates DR as a physics model with curvature-augmented forces.
result CAMEL outperforms existing methods on benchmark datasets.
BGRL learns graph representations without costly negative examples.
problem Efficient representation learning on large graphs without labels.
method Bootstrapped Graph Latents (BGRL) learns by predicting augmentations.
result BGRL achieves state-of-the-art performance with 2-10x memory savings.
New method estimates graphons from multiple networks with high accuracy and low complexity.
problem Estimating graphon function from multiple networks with different node sets and sizes.
method Histogram-based estimator that aligns nodes across all networks.
result High accuracy and low computational complexity achieved.