Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology ›› 2023, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 209-216.DOI: 10.3778/j.issn.1673-9418.2104085

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Link Prediction Combining Motif Graph Neural Network and Auto-encoder

LU Furong, YUAN Zhi'an, QIAN Yuhua   

  1. 1. Institute of Big Data Science and Industry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing (Shanxi University), Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030006, China
    3. School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • Online:2023-01-01 Published:2023-01-01

融合模体图神经网络和自编码器的链路预测

鲁富荣,原之安,钱宇华   

  1. 1. 山西大学 大数据科学与产业研究院,太原 030006
    2. 山西大学 计算智能与中文信息处理教育部重点实验室,太原 030006
    3. 山西大学 计算机与信息技术学院,太原 030006

Abstract: Link prediction is a basic task of network data mining, and there are many related research results. Due to the in-depth development of graph neural network research, the related models can learn the important features of link prediction more effectively, and thus achieve better results. However, different from the CNN model in deep learning, the most existing graph neural network models only aggregate the first-order neighbor information of nodes, and do not fully consider the topology characteristics between neighbors. On this basis, this paper proposes a link prediction model based on motif graph neural network. The model adopts auto-encoder architecture. In the encoding process, the adjacent matrix of the node is constructed by the motif, and then the motif neighborhood of the node is obtained. According to the neighborhood of each kind of motif, the neighbor information is aggregated, and the representation of the node is obtained by nonlinear transformation. Finally, the representation of the node under each kind of motif is concatenated. However, owing to different importance of different motifs in the network, the attention weights of different motifs are given by using the attention network, and the vector representation of nodes is given by connecting the attention network. In the decoding process, the network is reconstructed by calculating the similarity between nodes. Experimental results on several citation networks show that the proposed method outperforms most benchmark algorithms in two indices, and effectively improves the accuracy of link prediction on networks.

Key words: link prediction, complex networks, motif, graph convolutional networks, graph auto-encoder

摘要: 链路预测是网络数据挖掘的一项基本任务,已有很多相关的研究成果。由于图神经网络研究的深入发展,使得相关的模型可以更加有效学习网络的重要特征,在链路预测等任务中取得了很好的预测效果。然而,不同于深度学习中CNN模型,已有的图神经网络模型中仅聚合了节点的一阶邻居信息,未充分考虑邻居节点之间的拓扑结构特性。在此基础上,提出了基于模体的图神经网络链路预测模型。该模型采用自编码器结构,在编码过程中,通过模体构建节点的邻接矩阵,进而得到节点的模体邻域,依照每一类模体的邻域聚合邻居信息,通过非线性变换得到节点的表示,最后拼接每一类模体下节点的表示。然而由于不同的模体结构在网络中重要度有所不同,利用注意力网络给出表达不同模体的注意力权重,连接注意力网络给出节点的向量表示。在解码过程中,通过计算节点间的相似性重构网络。在几个引文合作者网络上的实验结果表明,该方法在两个指标上优于大多数基准算法,有效地提高了网络链路预测的准确度。

关键词: 链路预测, 复杂网络, 模体, 图卷积网络, 图自编码器