Isomorphic-Consistent Variational Graph Auto-Encoders for Multi-Level Graph Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05519v1
• Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 10:16:53 GMT
• Title: Isomorphic-Consistent Variational Graph Auto-Encoders for Multi-Level Graph Representation Learning
• Authors: Hanxuan Yang, Qingchao Kong and Wenji Mao
• Abstract summary: We propose the Isomorphic-Consistent VGAE (IsoC-VGAE) for task-agnostic graph representation learning. We first devise a decoding scheme to provide a theoretical guarantee of keeping the isomorphic consistency. We then propose the Inverse Graph Neural Network (Inv-GNN) decoder as its intuitive realization.
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• Abstract: Graph representation learning is a fundamental research theme and can be generalized to benefit multiple downstream tasks from the node and link levels to the higher graph level. In practice, it is desirable to develop task-agnostic general graph representation learning methods that are typically trained in an unsupervised manner. Related research reveals that the power of graph representation learning methods depends on whether they can differentiate distinct graph structures as different embeddings and map isomorphic graphs to consistent embeddings (i.e., the isomorphic consistency of graph models). However, for task-agnostic general graph representation learning, existing unsupervised graph models, represented by the variational graph auto-encoders (VGAEs), can only keep the isomorphic consistency within the subgraphs of 1-hop neighborhoods and thus usually manifest inferior performance on the more difficult higher-level tasks. To overcome the limitations of existing unsupervised methods, in this paper, we propose the Isomorphic-Consistent VGAE (IsoC-VGAE) for multi-level task-agnostic graph representation learning. We first devise a decoding scheme to provide a theoretical guarantee of keeping the isomorphic consistency under the settings of unsupervised learning. We then propose the Inverse Graph Neural Network (Inv-GNN) decoder as its intuitive realization, which trains the model via reconstructing the GNN node embeddings with multi-hop neighborhood information, so as to maintain the high-order isomorphic consistency within the VGAE framework. We conduct extensive experiments on the representative graph learning tasks at different levels, including node classification, link prediction and graph classification, and the results verify that our proposed model generally outperforms both the state-of-the-art unsupervised methods and representative supervised methods.

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