Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning with Cluster-aware Self-training and Refining
Abstract
1 Introduction
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2 Related Work
2.1 Unsupervised Representation Learning on Visual Data
2.2 Unsupervised Representation Learning on Graphs
2.3 Graph Clustering with Graph Neural Networks
3 The Proposed Method: CLEAR
3.1 Problem Formulation and Notations
Notation | Description |
---|---|
\(\mathcal {G}\) | input graph |
\(\mathcal {V}\) | set of vertices |
\(\mathcal {E}\) | set of edges |
\(v_i\) | node with index i |
\(\mathbf {A}\) | adjacency matrix of graph \(\mathcal {G}\) |
\(\widetilde{\mathbf {A}}\) | adjacency matrix with self-loops added |
\(\widetilde{\mathbf {D}}\) | degree matrix of \(\widetilde{\mathbf {A}}\) |
\(\mathbf {X}\) | feature matrix |
\(\mathbf {x}_i\) | feature of node \(v_i\) |
\(\mathbf {H}\) | output embedding matrix |
\(\mathbf {h}_i\) | embedding of node \(v_i\) |
\(\mathbf {W}^{(t)}\) | trainable weight matrix in the tth layer GCN |
\(\mathbf {H}^{(t)}\) | output embedding of the tth layer |
\(y_i\) | cluster label of \(v_i\) |
\(\mathbf {C}\) | cluster-assignment matrix |
\(\mathbf {c}_i\) | cluster assignment of \(v_i\) |
\(\mathbf {\mu }_{y_i}\) | embedding of the centroid that belongs to \(y_i\) |
\(\phi _p(\cdot)\) | graph purity function |
\(\tau _a\) | threshold for adding edge in topology refining |
\(\tau _r\) | threshold for removing edge in topology refining |
3.2 Graph Representation Learning by Cluster-aware Self-training
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3.3 Topology Refining
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3.4 Model Training
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3.5 Discussions
3.5.1 Time Complexity Analysis.
3.5.2 Comparison with Graph Structure Learning.
3.5.3 Connection with the Information Maximization Principle.
4 Experiments
4.1 Experimental Setup
Dataset | #Nodes | #Edges | #Features | #Classes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cora | 2,708 | 5,429 | 1,433 | 7 |
Citeseer | 3,327 | 4,732 | 3,703 | 6 |
Pubmed | 19,717 | 44,338 | 500 | 3 |
CS | 18,333 | 81,894 | 6,805 | 15 |
4.2 Node Clustering (RQ1)
Method | Cora | Citeseer | Pubmed | CS | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Accuracy | NMI | Accuracy | NMI | Accuracy | NMI | Accuracy | NMI | |
kMeans | 34.65 \(\pm\) 0.83 | 25.42 \(\pm\) 0.83 | 38.49 \(\pm\) 0.99 | 30.47 \(\pm\) 0.85 | 33.37 \(\pm\) 1.39 | 57.35 \(\pm\) 0.54 | 56.70 \(\pm\) 2.86 | 50.23 \(\pm\) 2.05 |
SC | 36.26 \(\pm\) 1.15 | 25.64 \(\pm\) 1.38 | 46.23 \(\pm\) 1.27 | 33.70 \(\pm\) 0.76 | 59.91 \(\pm\) 1.46 | 58.61 \(\pm\) 0.92 | 52.69 \(\pm\) 2.45 | 54.57 \(\pm\) 2.30 |
DeepWalk | 46.74 \(\pm\) 1.38 | 38.06 \(\pm\) 0.62 | 36.15 \(\pm\) 0.99 | 26.70 \(\pm\) 0.71 | 61.86 \(\pm\) 1.26 | 47.06 \(\pm\) 0.71 | 55.78 \(\pm\) 0.25 | 39.17 \(\pm\) 0.22 |
DNGR | 49.24 \(\pm\) 1.18 | 37.29 \(\pm\) 1.36 | 32.59 \(\pm\) 1.15 | 44.19 \(\pm\) 1.07 | 45.35 \(\pm\) 1.15 | 17.90 \(\pm\) 0.89 | 42.12 \(\pm\) 0.23 | 55.21 \(\pm\) 0.18 |
GAE | 53.25 \(\pm\) 0.87 | 41.97 \(\pm\) 1.26 | 41.26 \(\pm\) 0.95 | 29.13 \(\pm\) 0.87 | 64.08 \(\pm\) 1.36 | 49.26 \(\pm\) 1.09 | 54.57 \(\pm\) 2.01 | 58.73 \(\pm\) 2.48 |
VGAE | 55.95 \(\pm\) 0.74 | 41.50 \(\pm\) 0.76 | 44.38 \(\pm\) 1.00 | 31.88 \(\pm\) 0.94 | 65.48 \(\pm\) 0.64 | 50.95 \(\pm\) 1.25 | 57.94 \(\pm\) 1.78 | 60.10 \(\pm\) 2.12 |
MGAE | 63.43 \(\pm\) 1.35 | 38.01 \(\pm\) 1.33 | 63.56 \(\pm\) 1.03 | 39.49 \(\pm\) 0.64 | 43.88 \(\pm\) 0.88 | 41.98 \(\pm\) 0.79 | 61.91 \(\pm\) 2.03 | 62.54 \(\pm\) 1.01 |
ARGE | 64.00 \(\pm\) 1.01 | 61.90 \(\pm\) 1.49 | 57.30 \(\pm\) 1.34 | 54.60 \(\pm\) 0.65 | 59.12 \(\pm\) 0.68 | 58.41 \(\pm\) 0.99 | 62.12 \(\pm\) 2.10 | 63.11 \(\pm\) 0.98 |
ARVGE | 63.80 \(\pm\) 1.05 | 62.70 \(\pm\) 0.63 | 54.40 \(\pm\) 1.20 | 52.90 \(\pm\) 0.58 | 58.22 \(\pm\) 0.82 | 23.04 \(\pm\) 1.07 | 61.18 \(\pm\) 1.99 | 62.75 \(\pm\) 1.25 |
DANE | 70.27 \(\pm\) 1.25 | 68.93 \(\pm\) 0.76 | 47.97 \(\pm\) 1.44 | 45.28 \(\pm\) 1.43 | 69.42 \(\pm\) 1.00 | 65.10 \(\pm\) 0.81 | 62.13 \(\pm\) 2.03 | 63.72 \(\pm\) 1.02 |
AGC | 68.92 \(\pm\) 0.87 | 65.61 \(\pm\) 1.04 | 67.00 \(\pm\) 0.23 | 62.48 \(\pm\) 0.52 | 69.78 \(\pm\) 1.45 | 68.72 \(\pm\) 1.36 | 63.23 \(\pm\) 1.67 | 62.16 \(\pm\) 1.58 |
AGE | 74.74 \(\pm\) 1.22 | 72.34 \(\pm\) 0.83 | 58.58 \(\pm\) 0.57 | 55.91 \(\pm\) 0.23 | 49.63 \(\pm\) 0.81 | 34.58 \(\pm\) 0.35 | 60.57 \(\pm\) 1.12 | 54.23 \(\pm\) 1.05 |
DGI | 65.28 \(\pm\) 0.73 | 58.90 \(\pm\) 1.22 | 60.37 \(\pm\) 1.31 | 55.63 \(\pm\) 0.78 | 51.22 \(\pm\) 1.29 | 46.73 \(\pm\) 0.76 | 63.00 \(\pm\) 1.78 | 58.55 \(\pm\) 1.21 |
GMI | 67.10 \(\pm\) 0.91 | 65.75 \(\pm\) 2.01 | 59.82 \(\pm\) 0.11 | 56.47 \(\pm\) 0.82 | OOM | OOM | OOM | OOM |
CLEAR | 77.37 \(\pm\) 2.52 | 75.24 \(\pm\) 2.88 | 67.30 \(\pm\) 0.55 | 62.20 \(\pm\) 0.58 | 71.03 \(\pm\) 0.13 | 70.72 \(\pm\) 0.13 | 69.01 \(\pm\) 1.32 | 63.82 \(\pm\) 1.02 |
4.3 Node Classification (RQ1)
Method | Cora | Citeseer | Pubmed | CS | ||||
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Mi-F1 | Ma-F1 | Mi-F1 | Ma-F1 | Mi-F1 | Ma-F1 | Mi-F1 | Ma-F1 | |
DeepWalk | 75.68 \(\pm\) 0.20 | 74.98 \(\pm\) 0.73 | 50.52 \(\pm\) 0.72 | 46.45 \(\pm\) 0.69 | 80.47 \(\pm\) 0.39 | 78.73 \(\pm\) 0.61 | 74.12 \(\pm\) 0.01 | 70.42 \(\pm\) 0.04 |
node2vec | 74.77 \(\pm\) 0.65 | 72.56 \(\pm\) 0.29 | 52.33 \(\pm\) 0.07 | 48.32 \(\pm\) 0.12 | 80.27 \(\pm\) 0.41 | 78.49 \(\pm\) 0.31 | 75.69 \(\pm\) 0.20 | 72.54 \(\pm\) 0.11 |
GraRep | 75.68 \(\pm\) 0.74 | 74.41 \(\pm\) 0.23 | 48.17 \(\pm\) 0.53 | 45.89 \(\pm\) 0.01 | 79.51 \(\pm\) 0.42 | 77.85 \(\pm\) 0.24 | 72.12 \(\pm\) 0.21 | 71.95 \(\pm\) 0.43 |
ANE | 72.03 \(\pm\) 0.24 | 71.50 \(\pm\) 0.72 | 58.77 \(\pm\) 0.15 | 54.51 \(\pm\) 0.47 | 79.77 \(\pm\) 0.44 | 78.75 \(\pm\) 0.10 | 81.21 \(\pm\) 0.76 | 74.55 \(\pm\) 0.71 |
GAE | 76.91 \(\pm\) 0.42 | 75.73 \(\pm\) 0.14 | 60.58 \(\pm\) 0.25 | 55.32 \(\pm\) 0.11 | 82.85 \(\pm\) 0.65 | 83.28 \(\pm\) 0.28 | 82.15 \(\pm\) 1.12 | 75.67 \(\pm\) 0.88 |
VGAE | 78.88 \(\pm\) 0.58 | 77.36 \(\pm\) 0.21 | 61.15 \(\pm\) 0.38 | 56.62 \(\pm\) 0.29 | 82.99 \(\pm\) 0.28 | 82.40 \(\pm\) 0.02 | 83.25 \(\pm\) 1.06 | 78.21 \(\pm\) 0.25 |
DANE | 78.67 \(\pm\) 0.74 | 77.48 \(\pm\) 0.70 | 64.44 \(\pm\) 0.20 | 60.43 \(\pm\) 0.18 | 86.08 \(\pm\) 0.67 | 85.79 \(\pm\) 0.15 | 83.11 \(\pm\) 0.45 | 77.01 \(\pm\) 0.21 |
AGE | 74.79 \(\pm\) 0.73 | 73.09 \(\pm\) 0.73 | 63.47 \(\pm\) 0.50 | 58.85 \(\pm\) 0.02 | 81.69 \(\pm\) 0.74 | 81.32 \(\pm\) 0.44 | 75.68 \(\pm\) 0.89 | 75.12 \(\pm\) 2.01 |
DGI | 82.53 \(\pm\) 0.20 | 81.09 \(\pm\) 0.35 | 68.76 \(\pm\) 0.23 | 63.58 \(\pm\) 0.73 | 85.98 \(\pm\) 0.59 | 85.66 \(\pm\) 0.07 | 84.35 \(\pm\) 1.28 | 67.13 \(\pm\) 2.14 |
GMI | 82.19 \(\pm\) 0.13 | 80.84 \(\pm\) 0.48 | 69.44 \(\pm\) 0.53 | 63.81 \(\pm\) 0.12 | OOM | OOM | OOM | OOM |
CLEAR | 82.56 \(\pm\) 0.32 | 81.16 \(\pm\) 0.64 | 69.56 \(\pm\) 0.72 | 61.59 \(\pm\) 0.24 | 85.76 \(\pm\) 0.52 | 83.49 \(\pm\) 0.02 | 88.84 \(\pm\) 1.01 | 75.92 \(\pm\) 0.98 |
4.4 Ablation Studies (RQ2)
4.4.1 Impact of the Proposed Topology Refining Module.
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4.4.2 Impact of Different Schemes of Topology Refining.
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4.5 Discussions of Hard and Soft Topology Refining Schemes (RQ3)
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4.6 Parameter Sensitivity Analysis (RQ4)
4.6.1 Impact of the Cluster Size K.
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4.6.2 Impact of the Threshold \(\tau _r\) in Topology Refining.
4.6.3 Impact of the Threshold \(\tau _a\) in Topology Refining.
4.6.4 Impact of the Cluster Reassignment Interval U.
4.7 Visualizing Node Embeddings
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5 Conclusion and Future Work
A Details of the Greenkhorn Algorithm
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References
Index Terms
- Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning with Cluster-aware Self-training and Refining
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