Summary of Learning Network Representations with Disentangled Graph Auto-encoder, by Di Fan et al.
Learning Network Representations with Disentangled Graph Auto-Encoder
by Di Fan, Chuanhou Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces Disentangled Graph Auto-Encoder (DGA) and Disentangled Variational Graph Auto-Encoder (DVGA), novel architectures for learning disentangled representations from graph-structured data. The existing graph auto-encoders are holistic, neglecting the entanglement of latent factors, which reduces their effectiveness in graph analysis tasks and makes it challenging to explain the learned representations. To address this issue, the authors design a disentangled graph convolutional network with multi-channel message-passing layers as the encoder, allowing each channel to aggregate information about each latent factor. The disentangled variational graph auto-encoder’s expressive capability is enhanced by applying a component-wise flow to each channel, and a factor-wise decoder is constructed to take into account the characteristics of disentangled representations. Empirical experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method compared to several state-of-the-art baselines. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how computers can learn from graphs that are messy and complicated because many things are connected in different ways. Right now, computer algorithms don’t do a great job of separating out what’s important about these connections. This makes it hard for them to figure out what’s going on when they look at the graph. The authors propose new ways for computers to learn from graphs by making sure that each part of the graph is related to only one underlying idea or concept. They test their ideas on fake and real data and show that they work better than existing methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Convolutional network * Decoder * Encoder
