Title
Collective Link Prediction Oriented Network Embedding with Hierarchical Graph Attention
Abstract
To enjoy more social network services, users nowadays are usually involved in multiple online sites at the same time. Aligned social networks provide more information to alleviate the problem of data insufficiency. In this paper, we target on the collective link prediction problem and aim to predict both the intra-network social links as well as the inter-network anchor links across multiple aligned social networks. It is not an easy task, and the major challenges involve the network characteristic difference problem and different directivity properties of the social and anchor links to be predicted. To address the problem, we propose an application oriented network embedding framework, Hierarchical Graph Attention based Network Embedding (HGANE), for collective link prediction over directed aligned networks. Very different from the conventional general network embedding models, HGANE effectively incorporates the collective link prediction task objectives into consideration. It learns the representations of nodes by aggregating information from both the intra-network neighbors (connected by social links) and inter-network partners (connected by anchor links). What's more, we introduce a hierarchical graph attention mechanism for the intra-network neighbors and inter-network partners respectively, which resolves the network characteristic differences and the link directivity challenges effectively. Extensive experiments have been conducted on real-world aligned networks datasets to demonstrate that our model outperformed the state-of-the-art baseline methods in addressing the collective link prediction problem by a large margin.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3357384.3357990
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
attention, collective link prediction, embedding, multiple aligned networks
Graph,Data mining,Computer science,Network embedding
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6976-3
3
0.38
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yizhu Jiao172.15
Yun Xiong213626.42
Jiawei Zhang380672.17
Yangyong Zhu424331.66