An Efficient Loop and Clique Coarsening Algorithm for Graph Classification

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Main Authors: Qi, Xiaorui, Bai, Qijie, Wen, Yanlong, Zhang, Haiwei, Yuan, Xiaojie
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Published: 2024
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author Qi, Xiaorui
Bai, Qijie
Wen, Yanlong
Zhang, Haiwei
Yuan, Xiaojie
author_facet Qi, Xiaorui
Bai, Qijie
Wen, Yanlong
Zhang, Haiwei
Yuan, Xiaojie
contents Graph Transformers (GTs) have made remarkable achievements in graph-level tasks. However, most existing works regard graph structures as a form of guidance or bias for enhancing node representations, which focuses on node-central perspectives and lacks explicit representations of edges and structures. One natural question arises as to whether we can leverage a hypernode to represent some structures. Through experimental analysis, we explore the feasibility of this assumption. Based on our findings, we propose an efficient Loop and Clique Coarsening algorithm with linear complexity for Graph Classification (LCC4GC) on GT architecture. Specifically, we build three unique views, original, coarsening, and conversion, to learn a thorough structural representation. We compress loops and cliques via hierarchical heuristic graph coarsening and restrict them with well-designed constraints, which builds the coarsening view to learn high-level interactions between structures. We also introduce line graphs for edge embeddings and switch to edge-central perspective to alleviate the impact of coarsening reduction. Experiments on eight real-world datasets demonstrate the improvements of LCC4GC over 31 baselines from various architectures.
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spellingShingle An Efficient Loop and Clique Coarsening Algorithm for Graph Classification
Qi, Xiaorui
Bai, Qijie
Wen, Yanlong
Zhang, Haiwei
Yuan, Xiaojie
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
Graph Transformers (GTs) have made remarkable achievements in graph-level tasks. However, most existing works regard graph structures as a form of guidance or bias for enhancing node representations, which focuses on node-central perspectives and lacks explicit representations of edges and structures. One natural question arises as to whether we can leverage a hypernode to represent some structures. Through experimental analysis, we explore the feasibility of this assumption. Based on our findings, we propose an efficient Loop and Clique Coarsening algorithm with linear complexity for Graph Classification (LCC4GC) on GT architecture. Specifically, we build three unique views, original, coarsening, and conversion, to learn a thorough structural representation. We compress loops and cliques via hierarchical heuristic graph coarsening and restrict them with well-designed constraints, which builds the coarsening view to learn high-level interactions between structures. We also introduce line graphs for edge embeddings and switch to edge-central perspective to alleviate the impact of coarsening reduction. Experiments on eight real-world datasets demonstrate the improvements of LCC4GC over 31 baselines from various architectures.
title An Efficient Loop and Clique Coarsening Algorithm for Graph Classification
topic Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11869