Optimizing Long-tailed Link Prediction in Graph Neural Networks through Structure Representation Enhancement

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Yakun, Wang, Daixin, Liu, Hongrui, Hu, Binbin, Yan, Yingcui, Zhang, Qiyang, Zhang, Zhiqiang
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author Wang, Yakun
Wang, Daixin
Liu, Hongrui
Hu, Binbin
Yan, Yingcui
Zhang, Qiyang
Zhang, Zhiqiang
author_facet Wang, Yakun
Wang, Daixin
Liu, Hongrui
Hu, Binbin
Yan, Yingcui
Zhang, Qiyang
Zhang, Zhiqiang
contents Link prediction, as a fundamental task for graph neural networks (GNNs), has boasted significant progress in varied domains. Its success is typically influenced by the expressive power of node representation, but recent developments reveal the inferior performance of low-degree nodes owing to their sparse neighbor connections, known as the degree-based long-tailed problem. Will the degree-based long-tailed distribution similarly constrain the efficacy of GNNs on link prediction? Unexpectedly, our study reveals that only a mild correlation exists between node degree and predictive accuracy, and more importantly, the number of common neighbors between node pairs exhibits a strong correlation with accuracy. Considering node pairs with less common neighbors, i.e., tail node pairs, make up a substantial fraction of the dataset but achieve worse performance, we propose that link prediction also faces the long-tailed problem. Therefore, link prediction of GNNs is greatly hindered by the tail node pairs. After knowing the weakness of link prediction, a natural question is how can we eliminate the negative effects of the skewed long-tailed distribution on common neighbors so as to improve the performance of link prediction? Towards this end, we introduce our long-tailed framework (LTLP), which is designed to enhance the performance of tail node pairs on link prediction by increasing common neighbors. Two key modules in LTLP respectively supplement high-quality edges for tail node pairs and enforce representational alignment between head and tail node pairs within the same category, thereby improving the performance of tail node pairs.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Long-tailed Link Prediction in Graph Neural Networks through Structure Representation Enhancement
Wang, Yakun
Wang, Daixin
Liu, Hongrui
Hu, Binbin
Yan, Yingcui
Zhang, Qiyang
Zhang, Zhiqiang
Machine Learning
Link prediction, as a fundamental task for graph neural networks (GNNs), has boasted significant progress in varied domains. Its success is typically influenced by the expressive power of node representation, but recent developments reveal the inferior performance of low-degree nodes owing to their sparse neighbor connections, known as the degree-based long-tailed problem. Will the degree-based long-tailed distribution similarly constrain the efficacy of GNNs on link prediction? Unexpectedly, our study reveals that only a mild correlation exists between node degree and predictive accuracy, and more importantly, the number of common neighbors between node pairs exhibits a strong correlation with accuracy. Considering node pairs with less common neighbors, i.e., tail node pairs, make up a substantial fraction of the dataset but achieve worse performance, we propose that link prediction also faces the long-tailed problem. Therefore, link prediction of GNNs is greatly hindered by the tail node pairs. After knowing the weakness of link prediction, a natural question is how can we eliminate the negative effects of the skewed long-tailed distribution on common neighbors so as to improve the performance of link prediction? Towards this end, we introduce our long-tailed framework (LTLP), which is designed to enhance the performance of tail node pairs on link prediction by increasing common neighbors. Two key modules in LTLP respectively supplement high-quality edges for tail node pairs and enforce representational alignment between head and tail node pairs within the same category, thereby improving the performance of tail node pairs.
title Optimizing Long-tailed Link Prediction in Graph Neural Networks through Structure Representation Enhancement
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20499