Disambiguated Node Classification with Graph Neural Networks

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Tianxiang, Zhang, Xiang, Wang, Suhang
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author Zhao, Tianxiang
Zhang, Xiang
Wang, Suhang
author_facet Zhao, Tianxiang
Zhang, Xiang
Wang, Suhang
contents Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in learning from graph-structured data across various domains. Despite their great successful, one critical challenge is often overlooked by existing works, i.e., the learning of message propagation that can generalize effectively to underrepresented graph regions. These minority regions often exhibit irregular homophily/heterophily patterns and diverse neighborhood class distributions, resulting in ambiguity. In this work, we investigate the ambiguity problem within GNNs, its impact on representation learning, and the development of richer supervision signals to fight against this problem. We conduct a fine-grained evaluation of GNN, analyzing the existence of ambiguity in different graph regions and its relation with node positions. To disambiguate node embeddings, we propose a novel method, {\method}, which exploits additional optimization guidance to enhance representation learning, particularly for nodes in ambiguous regions. {\method} identifies ambiguous nodes based on temporal inconsistency of predictions and introduces a disambiguation regularization by employing contrastive learning in a topology-aware manner. {\method} promotes discriminativity of node representations and can alleviating semantic mixing caused by message propagation, effectively addressing the ambiguity problem. Empirical results validate the efficiency of {\method} and highlight its potential to improve GNN performance in underrepresented graph regions.
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spellingShingle Disambiguated Node Classification with Graph Neural Networks
Zhao, Tianxiang
Zhang, Xiang
Wang, Suhang
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in learning from graph-structured data across various domains. Despite their great successful, one critical challenge is often overlooked by existing works, i.e., the learning of message propagation that can generalize effectively to underrepresented graph regions. These minority regions often exhibit irregular homophily/heterophily patterns and diverse neighborhood class distributions, resulting in ambiguity. In this work, we investigate the ambiguity problem within GNNs, its impact on representation learning, and the development of richer supervision signals to fight against this problem. We conduct a fine-grained evaluation of GNN, analyzing the existence of ambiguity in different graph regions and its relation with node positions. To disambiguate node embeddings, we propose a novel method, {\method}, which exploits additional optimization guidance to enhance representation learning, particularly for nodes in ambiguous regions. {\method} identifies ambiguous nodes based on temporal inconsistency of predictions and introduces a disambiguation regularization by employing contrastive learning in a topology-aware manner. {\method} promotes discriminativity of node representations and can alleviating semantic mixing caused by message propagation, effectively addressing the ambiguity problem. Empirical results validate the efficiency of {\method} and highlight its potential to improve GNN performance in underrepresented graph regions.
title Disambiguated Node Classification with Graph Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08824