Summary of Learning Divergence Fields For Shift-robust Graph Representations, by Qitian Wu et al.
Learning Divergence Fields for Shift-Robust Graph Representations
by Qitian Wu, Fan Nie, Chenxiao Yang, Junchi Yan
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a geometric diffusion model with learnable divergence fields to address the challenging problem of generalizing learning models to interdependent data. The authors generalize the diffusion equation by incorporating stochastic diffusivity at each time step, which captures multi-faceted information flows among interconnected data points. They also derive a new learning objective through causal inference, guiding the model to learn patterns of interdependence insensitive across domains. Three instantiations are introduced as generalized versions of GCN, GAT, and Transformers, demonstrating promising efficacy for out-of-distribution generalization on diverse real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making machine learning models work better when the data they’re trained on has connections between individual pieces of information. This makes it harder to train models that can predict well on new, unseen data. The authors suggest a new way to model these connections using “divergence fields” and show how this approach can make their models more robust to changes in the data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Gcn » Generalization » Inference » Machine learning
