Title
Topology and Content Co-Alignment Graph Convolutional Learning
Abstract
In traditional graph neural networks (GNNs), graph convolutional learning is carried out through topology-driven recursive node content aggregation for network representation learning. In reality, network topology and node content each provide unique and important information, and they are not always consistent because of noise, irrelevance, or missing links between nodes. A pure topology-driven feature aggregation approach between unaligned neighborhoods may deteriorate learning from nodes with poor structure-content consistency, due to the propagation of incorrect messages over the whole network. Alternatively, in this brief, we advocate a co-alignment graph convolutional learning (CoGL) paradigm, by aligning topology and content networks to maximize consistency. Our theme is to enforce the learning from the topology network to be consistent with the content network while simultaneously optimizing the content network to comply with the topology for optimized representation learning. Given a network, CoGL first reconstructs a content network from node features then co-aligns the content network and the original network through a unified optimization goal with: 1) minimized content loss; 2) minimized classification loss; and 3) minimized adversarial loss. Experiments on six benchmarks demonstrate that CoGL achieves comparable and even better performance compared with existing state-of-the-art GNN models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3084125
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Graph convolutional learning,graph mining,network embedding,network representation learning,neural networks
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
2162-237X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Shi1198.50
Yufei Tang220322.83
Xingquan Zhu33086181.95