Fast Graph Attention Networks Using Effective Resistance Based Graph Sparsification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08796v3
• Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 15:26:10 GMT
• Title: Fast Graph Attention Networks Using Effective Resistance Based Graph Sparsification
• Authors: Rakshith S Srinivasa, Cao Xiao, Lucas Glass, Justin Romberg, Jimeng Sun
• Abstract summary: FastGAT is a method to make attention based GNNs lightweight by using spectral sparsification to generate an optimal pruning of the input graph. We experimentally evaluate FastGAT on several large real world graph datasets for node classification tasks.
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• Abstract: The attention mechanism has demonstrated superior performance for inference over nodes in graph neural networks (GNNs), however, they result in a high computational burden during both training and inference. We propose FastGAT, a method to make attention based GNNs lightweight by using spectral sparsification to generate an optimal pruning of the input graph. This results in a per-epoch time that is almost linear in the number of graph nodes as opposed to quadratic. We theoretically prove that spectral sparsification preserves the features computed by the GAT model, thereby justifying our algorithm. We experimentally evaluate FastGAT on several large real world graph datasets for node classification tasks under both inductive and transductive settings. FastGAT can dramatically reduce (up to \textbf{10x}) the computational time and memory requirements, allowing the usage of attention based GNNs on large graphs.

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