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A Flexible Generative Framework for Graph-based Semi-supervised Learning
Jiaqi Ma · Weijing Tang · Ji Zhu · Qiaozhu Mei

Wed Dec 11 05:00 PM -- 07:00 PM (PST) @ East Exhibition Hall B + C #60
in Algorithms -- Relational Learning »

We consider a family of problems that are concerned about making predictions for the majority of unlabeled, graph-structured data samples based on a small proportion of labeled samples. Relational information among the data samples, often encoded in the graph/network structure, is shown to be helpful for these semi-supervised learning tasks. However, conventional graph-based regularization methods and recent graph neural networks do not fully leverage the interrelations between the features, the graph, and the labels. In this work, we propose a flexible generative framework for graph-based semi-supervised learning, which approaches the joint distribution of the node features, labels, and the graph structure. Borrowing insights from random graph models in network science literature, this joint distribution can be instantiated using various distribution families. For the inference of missing labels, we exploit recent advances of scalable variational inference techniques to approximate the Bayesian posterior. We conduct thorough experiments on benchmark datasets for graph-based semi-supervised learning. Results show that the proposed methods outperform state-of-the-art models under most settings.

Keywords: Semi-Supervised Learning · Generative Models · Algorithms · Deep Learning
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Author Information

Jiaqi Ma (University of Michigan)
Weijing Tang (University of Michigan)
Ji Zhu (University of Michigan)
Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)

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