Summary of Utg: Towards a Unified View Of Snapshot and Event Based Models For Temporal Graphs, by Shenyang Huang et al.
UTG: Towards a Unified View of Snapshot and Event Based Models for Temporal Graphs
by Shenyang Huang, Farimah Poursafaei, Reihaneh Rabbany, Guillaume Rabusseau, Emanuele Rossi
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
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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 Unified Temporal Graph (UTG), a framework that unifies machine learning methods for both temporal graph snapshots and edge events. This allows models developed for one representation to be applied effectively to datasets of the other type. The authors also propose a novel UTG training procedure to improve the performance of snapshot-based models in the streaming setting. The paper evaluates both snapshot and event-based models across various types of temporal graphs on the link prediction task. The main findings are that snapshot-based models can perform competitively with event-based models when combined with UTG training, while also being faster during inference. Additionally, the authors suggest incorporating joint neighborhood structural features into snapshot-based models to improve their performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how machine learning can be used for dynamic graphs that change over time. Graphs are like maps of connections between things, and they can grow or shrink as new information comes in. The researchers created a way to make different types of graph analyses work together seamlessly. This lets them compare different methods for understanding these changing graphs. They found that some methods work well on both types of data, while others are better suited for one type over the other. Overall, the paper shows how combining different approaches can lead to better results and more efficient processing. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Machine learning
