From a sequence of similarity networks, with edges representing certain similarity measures between nodes, we are interested in detecting a change-point which changes the statistical property of the networks. After the change, a subset of anomalous nodes which compares dissimilarly with the normal nodes. We study a sim…
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The problem of unsupervised learning node embeddings in graphs is one of the important directions in modern network science. In this work we propose a novel framework, which is aimed to find embeddings by \textit{discriminating distributions of similarities (DDoS)} between nodes in the graph. The general idea is implem…
Enhances graph neural networks by considering feature similarities in node aggregation.
problem Ignoring node feature similarities in traditional graph aggregation schemes.
method Interprets node aggregation as kernel weighting, proposing a framework that considers feature similarities.
result Proposed framework outperforms traditional GCNs in real-world applications.
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.
Network Embeddings (NEs) map the nodes of a given network into -dimensional Euclidean space . Ideally, this mapping is such that `similar' nodes are mapped onto nearby points, such that the NE can be used for purposes such as link prediction (if `similar' means being `more likely to be connected') or c…
Nodes residing in different parts of a graph can have similar structural roles within their local network topology. The identification of such roles provides key insight into the organization of networks and can be used for a variety of machine learning tasks. However, learning structural representations of nodes is a …
The paper examines how well node similarities are preserved by random projections in graph embeddings.
problem The preservation of node similarities under random projections in graph embeddings.
method Investigation of dot product and cosine similarity preservation by random projections over graph matrix rows.
result Random projections produce unreliable embeddings for dot product, especially for high-degree nodes.
Proposes MGMN for end-to-end graph similarity learning.
problem Lack of cross-level interactions in graph similarity learning.
method Multi-level graph matching network (MGMN) combining node-graph matching and siamese graph neural networks.
result MGMN outperforms state-of-the-art models on graph-graph classification and regression tasks.
This work derives closed-form expressions computing the expectation of co-presence and of number of co-occurrences of nodes on paths sampled from a network according to general path weights (a bag of paths). The underlying idea is that two nodes are considered as similar when they often appear together on (preferably s…
PSimGNN partitions graphs into subgraphs for efficient graph similarity computation.
problem Efficiently compute graph similarity scores for large graphs.
method Graph partitioning followed by subgraph-level and node-level comparisons using a graph neural network.
result PSimGNN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in graph similarity computation tasks.
Node embedding is the task of extracting informative and descriptive features over the nodes of a graph. The importance of node embeddings for graph analytics, as well as learning tasks such as node classification, link prediction and community detection, has led to increased interest on the problem leading to a number…
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…
Graph similarity search is among the most important graph-based applications, e.g. finding the chemical compounds that are most similar to a query compound. Graph similarity computation, such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) and Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS), is the core operation of graph similarity search and many other …
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…
Predicting missing links via correlation between nodesphysics.soc-ph
As a fundamental problem in many different fields, link prediction aims to estimate the likelihood of an existing link between two nodes based on the observed information. Since this problem is related to many applications ranging from uncovering missing data to predicting the evolution of networks, link prediction has…
The Social Internet of Things (SIoT), integration of the Internet of Things and Social Networks paradigms, has been introduced to build a network of smart nodes that are capable of establishing social links. In order to deal with misbehaving service provider nodes, service requestor nodes must evaluate their trustworth…
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.
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.
New algorithm detects community labels in networks using unlabeled data.
problem Detect community labels in networks with partially labeled data.
method Proposes an algorithm using structural similarity metrics.
result Theoretical guarantees for misclassification error.
The autoencoder is an artificial neural network model that learns hidden representations of unlabeled data. With a linear transfer function it is similar to the principal component analysis (PCA). While both methods use weight vectors for linear transformations, the autoencoder does not come with any indication similar…
GraphReach improves GNN performance by incorporating node positions.
problem Existing GNNs fail to capture node positions, leading to inaccurate predictions.
method GraphReach uses reachability estimations from anchor nodes to capture global node positions.
result GraphReach achieves up to 40% relative improvement in accuracy compared to state-of-the-art GNNs.
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.
International trade has been increasingly organized in the form of global value chains (GVCs) where different stages of production are located in different countries. This recent phenomenon has substantial consequences for both trade policy design at the national or regional level and business decision making at the fi…
Bi-directional Curriculum Learning improves graph anomaly detection by considering both homogeneity and heterogeneity.
problem Existing graph anomaly detection methods often ignore the different contributions of nodes to training.
method Introduces Bi-directional Curriculum Learning (BCL) to optimize GAD methods by considering both homogeneity and heterogeneity of nodes.
result Extensive experiments show that BCL significantly improves the performance of GAD anomaly detection models.
The spatial convolution layer which is widely used in the Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) aggregates the feature vector of each node with the feature vectors of its neighboring nodes. The GNN is not aware of the locations of the nodes in the global structure of the graph and when the local structures corresponding to diff…
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.…
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.
Rewiring GNNs to optimize community and feature alignment improves their performance.
problem Improving GNNs' performance by addressing over-squashing and generalization issues.
method Three rewiring strategies: ComMa, FeaSt, and ComFy, targeting community structure, node labels, and their alignment.
result Rewiring strategies enhance GNNs' performance by optimizing label-community alignment.
Privacy preserving networks can be modelled as decentralized networks (e.g., sensors, connected objects, smartphones), where communication between nodes of the network is not controlled by an all-knowing, central node. For this type of networks, the main issue is to gather/learn global information on the network (e.g.,…
In complex networks, nodes that share similar structural characteristics often exhibit similar roles (e.g type of users in a social network or the hierarchical position of employees in a company). In order to leverage this relationship, a growing literature proposed latent representations that identify structurally equ…
Proposes RNNE for dynamic network embedding.
problem Handling dynamic networks with changing node and edge counts.
method Recurrent Neural Network Embedding (RNNE) for topologically evolving graphs and temporal graphs.
result RNNE outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in network reconstruction, classification, and link prediction.
Proposes a novel approach using vector cross product to preserve directional edges in directed graphs.
problem Preserving directional edges in directed graphs for tasks like link prediction and node recommendation.
method Integrates the non-commutative property of vector cross product into a Siamese neural network to learn N-dimensional embeddings.
result Low-dimensional embeddings effectively preserve directional properties and outperform state-of-the-art methods.
FREDE efficiently embeds graphs using linear space and guarantees quality.
problem Efficiently embedding graphs with quality guarantees and linear space complexity.
method FREDE combines matrix sketching with a nonlinear transform of PageRank similarities to achieve linear space and quality guarantees.
result FREDE provides column-covariance approximation guarantees that are nearly as good as SVD, even with limited node similarities.
In this paper we provide a principled approach to solve a transductive classification problem involving a similar graph (edges tend to connect nodes with same labels) and a dissimilar graph (edges tend to connect nodes with opposing labels). Most of the existing methods, e.g., Information Regularization (IR), Weighted …
Graph-based LRE estimates likelihood-ratios collaboratively for nodes.
problem Comparing unknown pdfs at graph nodes with graph structure.
method Graph-based Relative Unconstrained Least-squares Importance Fitting (GRULSIF).
result Collaborative estimation improves performance compared to independent methods.
Boilerplate removal refers to the problem of removing noisy content from a webpage such as ads and extracting relevant content that can be used by various services. This can be useful in several features in web browsers such as ad blocking, accessibility tools such as read out loud, translation, summarization etc. In o…
Graph neural networks improve with edge similarity constraints in RNA structure analysis.
problem Lack of edge similarity constraints in graph neural networks.
method Introduced a graph neural network layer that leverages prior information about edge similarities.
result Edge similarity constraints do not enhance performance in graph neural networks.
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.
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.
New method aggregates nodes in sparse graphical models.
problem Estimating edge-sparse graphical models.
method Tree-aggregated graphical lasso (tag-lasso) method.
result Aggregates nodes in a data-driven fashion using a tree.
A method detects changes in heterogeneous data streams over graph nodes.
problem Detecting changes in data streams from nodes of a graph.
method Online non-parametric method using likelihood-ratio estimation.
result The method accurately identifies change-points in real-world applications.
New insights into neural network forgetting reveal a trade-off between node activation and re-use.
problem Challenges in maintaining performance on old tasks while learning new ones.
method Theoretical analysis of synthetic and real data setups, focusing on node activation vs re-use.
result Worst forgetting occurs in an intermediate similarity regime between learned tasks.
Estimates mean of distributed vectors with sparsification and spatial/temporal correlations.
problem Estimating mean of high-dimensional vectors distributed across nodes with low communication cost.
method Modifies decoding method to leverage spatial and temporal correlations in sparsified vectors.
result Estimators consistently outperform more sophisticated sparsification methods.
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.
In colored graphs, node classes are often associated with either their neighbors class or with information not incorporated in the graph associated with each node. We here propose that node classes are also associated with topological features of the nodes. We use this association to improve Graph machine learning in g…
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…
The paper discusses a pooling mechanism to induce subsampling in graph structured data and introduces it as a component of a graph convolutional neural network. The pooling mechanism builds on the Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) of a matrix representing node adjacency and node similarity as adaptively obtained …
Online Centralized Non-parametric Change-point Detection via Graph-based Likelihood-ratio Estimationstat.ML
Paper detects changes in graph-based data streams using likelihood-ratios.
problem Detecting changes in synchronized graph-based data streams.
method Kernel-based likelihood-ratio estimation over graph nodes.
result Effective detection and localization of change-points.