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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Bohan, Chang, Yurui, Jin, Wei, Lin, Lu
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Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17506
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author Wang, Bohan
Chang, Yurui
Jin, Wei
Lin, Lu
author_facet Wang, Bohan
Chang, Yurui
Jin, Wei
Lin, Lu
contents Distribution shifts between training and testing datasets significantly impair the model performance on graph learning. A commonly-taken causal view in graph invariant learning suggests that stable predictive features of graphs are causally associated with labels, whereas varying environmental features lead to distribution shifts. In particular, covariate shifts caused by unseen environments in test graphs underscore the critical need for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. Existing graph augmentation methods designed to address the covariate shift often disentangle the stable and environmental features in the input space, and selectively perturb or mixup the environmental features. However, such perturbation-based methods heavily rely on an accurate separation of stable and environmental features, and their exploration ability is confined to existing environmental features in the training distribution. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a novel distributional augmentation approach enabled by a tailored score-based conditional graph generation strategies to explore and synthesize unseen environments while preserving the validity and stable features of overall graph patterns. Our comprehensive empirical evaluations demonstrate the enhanced effectiveness of our method in improving graph OOD generalization.
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spellingShingle Score-based Conditional Out-of-Distribution Augmentation for Graph Covariate Shift
Wang, Bohan
Chang, Yurui
Jin, Wei
Lin, Lu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distribution shifts between training and testing datasets significantly impair the model performance on graph learning. A commonly-taken causal view in graph invariant learning suggests that stable predictive features of graphs are causally associated with labels, whereas varying environmental features lead to distribution shifts. In particular, covariate shifts caused by unseen environments in test graphs underscore the critical need for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. Existing graph augmentation methods designed to address the covariate shift often disentangle the stable and environmental features in the input space, and selectively perturb or mixup the environmental features. However, such perturbation-based methods heavily rely on an accurate separation of stable and environmental features, and their exploration ability is confined to existing environmental features in the training distribution. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a novel distributional augmentation approach enabled by a tailored score-based conditional graph generation strategies to explore and synthesize unseen environments while preserving the validity and stable features of overall graph patterns. Our comprehensive empirical evaluations demonstrate the enhanced effectiveness of our method in improving graph OOD generalization.
title Score-based Conditional Out-of-Distribution Augmentation for Graph Covariate Shift
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17506