Title
Learning Hyperedge Replacement Grammars for Graph Generation.
Abstract
The discovery and analysis of network patterns is central to the scientific enterprise. In the present work we developed and evaluated a new approach that learns the building blocks of graphs that can be used to understand and generate new realistic graphs. Our key insight is that a graph's clique tree encodes robust and precise information. We show that a Hyperedge Replacement Grammar (HRG) can extracted from the clique tree, and we develop a fixed-size graph generation algorithm that can be used to produce new graphs of a specified size. In experiments on large real-world graphs, we show that graphs generated from the HRG approach exhibit a diverse range of properties that are similar to those found in the original networks. In addition to graph properties like degree or eigenvector centrality, what a graph "looks like" ultimately depends on small details in local graph substructures that are difficult to define at a global level. We show that the HRG model can also preserve these local substructures when generating new graphs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2810877
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Grammar,Robustness,Aggregates,Task analysis,Diseases,Chemicals
Journal
abs/1802.08068
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0162-8828
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salvador Aguiñaga173.12
David Chiang22843144.76
Tim Weninger357646.14