Edge Content Enhanced Network Embedding

Network embedding, aiming at learning the low-dimensional representations of nodes in a network, is a key to many network analysis tasks. All the current network embedding methods primarily explore the network topology or node attributes, while no effort has been made to analyze the edge content for network embedding. The edge content, such as the email content between two users in an email network, is often naturally associated with edges. They carry rich information to describe the interaction between nodes, and provide valuable supervision to learn the representations of nodes. In this paper, we propose a novel edge content enhanced network embedding model, which incorporates the edge content to guide the network representation learning process. We provide the efficient updating rules to infer the parameters in the model, along with theoretical analysis on correctness and convergence guarantees. Extensive experiments, in comparison with the state-of-the-arts, show the superior performance of our proposed new approach on different network analysis tasks.