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Embedding Node Structural Role Identity into Hyperbolic Space

Social and Information Networks 2020-11-04 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Recently, there has been an interest in embedding networks in hyperbolic space, since hyperbolic space has been shown to work well in capturing graph/network structure as it can naturally reflect some properties of complex networks. However, the work on network embedding in hyperbolic space has been focused on microscopic node embedding. In this work, we are the first to present a framework to embed the structural roles of nodes into hyperbolic space. Our framework extends struct2vec, a well-known structural role preserving embedding method, by moving it to a hyperboloid model. We evaluated our method on four real-world and one synthetic network. Our results show that hyperbolic space is more effective than euclidean space in learning latent representations for the structural role of nodes.

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@article{arxiv.2011.01512,
  title  = {Embedding Node Structural Role Identity into Hyperbolic Space},
  author = {Lili Wang and Ying Lu and Chenghan Huang and Soroush Vosoughi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01512},
  year   = {2020}
}

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In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '20), October 19-23, 2020, Virtual Event, Ireland

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