Enhancing graph representation learning via type-aware decoupling and node influence allocation

Abstract

The traditional graph representation methods can fit the information of graph with low-dimensional vectors, but they cannot interpret their composition, resulting in insufficient security. Graph decoupling, as a method of graph representation, can analyze the latent factors composing the graph representation vectors. However, in current graph decoupling methods, the number of factors is a hyperparameter, and enforce uniform decoupling vector dimensions which leads to information loss or redundancy. To address these issues, we propose a type-aware graph decoupling based on influence called Variational Graph Decoupling Auto-Encoder (VGDAE). It uses node labels as interpretable and objectively existing natural semantics for decoupling and allocates embedding space based on node influence, addressing the issues of manually setting the number of factors in traditional graph decoupling and the mismatch between node information size and embedding space. On the Cora, Citeseer, and fb-CMU datasets, VGDAE shows the impact of different node classes as decoupling targets on classification tasks. Furthermore, we perform visualization of the representations, VGDAE exhibits performance improvements of 2% in classification tasks and 12% in clustering tasks when compared with baseline models.