Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

Solving graph compression via optimal transport

Vikas Garg · Tommi Jaakkola

East Exhibition Hall B + C #54

Keywords: [ Optimization ] [ Convex Optimization ]


Abstract:

We propose a new approach to graph compression by appeal to optimal transport. The transport problem is seeded with prior information about node importance, attributes, and edges in the graph. The transport formulation can be setup for either directed or undirected graphs, and its dual characterization is cast in terms of distributions over the nodes. The compression pertains to the support of node distributions and makes the problem challenging to solve directly. To this end, we introduce Boolean relaxations and specify conditions under which these relaxations are exact. The relaxations admit algorithms with provably fast convergence. Moreover, we provide an exact O(d log d) algorithm for the subproblem of projecting a d-dimensional vector to transformed simplex constraints. Our method outperforms state-of-the-art compression methods on graph classification.

Live content is unavailable. Log in and register to view live content