Predict Confidently, Predict Right: Abstention in Dynamic Graph Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08397v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:27:58 GMT
• Title: Predict Confidently, Predict Right: Abstention in Dynamic Graph Learning
• Authors: Jayadratha Gayen, Himanshu Pal, Naresh Manwani, Charu Sharma,
• Abstract summary: We propose a reject option strategy within the framework of temporal graph neural networks (GNNs) for continuous-time dynamic graphs.<n>This allows the model to strategically abstain from making predictions when the uncertainty is high and confidence is low.<n>We show the effectiveness of our approach in improving the reliability and area under the curve (AUC)/ average precision (AP) scores for predictions in dynamic graph scenarios.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Many real-world systems can be modeled as dynamic graphs, where nodes and edges evolve over time, requiring specialized models to capture their evolving dynamics in risk-sensitive applications effectively. Temporal graph neural networks (GNNs) are one such category of specialized models. For the first time, our approach integrates a reject option strategy within the framework of GNNs for continuous-time dynamic graphs. This allows the model to strategically abstain from making predictions when the uncertainty is high and confidence is low, thus minimizing the risk of critical misclassification and enhancing the results and reliability. We propose a coverage-based abstention prediction model to implement the reject option that maximizes prediction within a specified coverage. It improves the prediction score for link prediction and node classification tasks. Temporal GNNs deal with extremely skewed datasets for the next state prediction or node classification task. In the case of class imbalance, our method can be further tuned to provide a higher weightage to the minority class. Exhaustive experiments are presented on four datasets for dynamic link prediction and two datasets for dynamic node classification tasks. This demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in improving the reliability and area under the curve (AUC)/ average precision (AP) scores for predictions in dynamic graph scenarios. The results highlight our model's ability to efficiently handle the trade-offs between prediction confidence and coverage, making it a dependable solution for applications requiring high precision in dynamic and uncertain environments.

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