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Poster
Watch Your Step: Learning Node Embeddings via Graph Attention
Sami Abu-El-Haija · Bryan Perozzi · Rami Al-Rfou · Alexander Alemi

Thu Dec 06 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Room 517 AB #119
in Thu Poster Session B »

Graph embedding methods represent nodes in a continuous vector space, preserving different types of relational information from the graph. There are many hyper-parameters to these methods (e.g. the length of a random walk) which have to be manually tuned for every graph. In this paper, we replace previously fixed hyper-parameters with trainable ones that we automatically learn via backpropagation. In particular, we propose a novel attention model on the power series of the transition matrix, which guides the random walk to optimize an upstream objective. Unlike previous approaches to attention models, the method that we propose utilizes attention parameters exclusively on the data itself (e.g. on the random walk), and are not used by the model for inference. We experiment on link prediction tasks, as we aim to produce embeddings that best-preserve the graph structure, generalizing to unseen information. We improve state-of-the-art results on a comprehensive suite of real-world graph datasets including social, collaboration, and biological networks, where we observe that our graph attention model can reduce the error by up to 20\%-40\%. We show that our automatically-learned attention parameters can vary significantly per graph, and correspond to the optimal choice of hyper-parameter if we manually tune existing methods.

Keywords: Representation Learning · Network Analysis

Author Information

Sami Abu-El-Haija (Information Sciences Institute @ USC)
Bryan Perozzi (Google AI)
Rami Al-Rfou (Google Research)

Rami Al-Rfou received his PhD at Stony Brook University. He conducted his research on the application of deep learning in multilingual natural language processing with emphasis on languages with scarce resources. Currently, he focuses on modeling contextual cues for dialogue modeling. For more information check personal website (http://alrfou.com).

Alexander Alemi (Google)

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