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Learning fair graph representations for downstream applications is becoming increasingly important, but existing work has mostly focused on improving fairness at the global level by either modifying the graph structure or objective function…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-26 April Chen , Ryan Rossi , Nedim Lipka , Jane Hoffswell , Gromit Chan , Shunan Guo , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Representing networks in a low dimensional latent space is a crucial task with many interesting applications in graph learning problems, such as link prediction and node classification. A widely applied network representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Abdulkadir Çelikkanat , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Representation learning on graphs has been gaining attention due to its wide applicability in predicting missing links, and classifying and recommending nodes. Most embedding methods aim to preserve certain properties of the original graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Palash Goyal , Di Huang , Sujit Rokka Chhetri , Arquimedes Canedo , Jaya Shree , Evan Patterson

Node embedding is a powerful approach for representing the structural role of each node in a graph. $\textit{Node2vec}$ is a widely used method for node embedding that works by exploring the local neighborhoods via biased random walks on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Renming Liu , Matthew Hirn , Arjun Krishnan

Representation learning on graphs, also called graph embedding, has demonstrated its significant impact on a series of machine learning applications such as classification, prediction and recommendation. However, existing work has largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yifan Hou , Hongzhi Chen , Changji Li , James Cheng , Ming-Chang Yang

In recent years, graph representation learning has gained significant popularity, which aims to generate node embeddings that capture features of graphs. One of the methods to achieve this is employing a technique called random walks that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Deniz Gurevin , Mohsin Shan , Tong Geng , Weiwen Jiang , Caiwen Ding , Omer Khan

Estimating node similarity is a fundamental task in network analysis and graph-based machine learning, with applications in clustering, community detection, classification, and recommendation. We propose TopKGraphs, a method based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Bastian Pfeifer , Michael G. Schimek

Machine learning on graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with applications ranging from drug design to friendship recommendation in social networks. The primary challenge in this domain is finding a way to represent, or encode, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 William L. Hamilton , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

In this work we propose Lasagne, a methodology to learn locality and structure aware graph node embeddings in an unsupervised way. In particular, we show that the performance of existing random-walk based approaches depends strongly on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Evgeniy Faerman , Felix Borutta , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

In the modern age of social media and networks, graph representations of real-world phenomena have become an incredibly useful source to mine insights. Often, we are interested in understanding how entities in a graph are interconnected.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Aneesh Komanduri , Justin Zhan

Accurately analyzing graph properties of social networks is a challenging task because of access limitations to the graph data. To address this challenge, several algorithms to obtain unbiased estimates of properties from few samples via a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo

Random walks are at the heart of many existing deep learning algorithms for graph data. However, such algorithms have many limitations that arise from the use of random walks, e.g., the features resulting from these methods are unable to…

It is not until recently that graph neural networks (GNNs) are adopted to perform graph representation learning, among which, those based on the aggregation of features within the neighborhood of a node achieved great success. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yilun Jin , Guojie Song , Chuan Shi

Many tasks in graph machine learning, such as link prediction and node classification, are typically solved by using representation learning, in which each node or edge in the network is encoded via an embedding. Though there exists a lot…

Sampling methods (e.g., node-wise, layer-wise, or subgraph) has become an indispensable strategy to speed up training large-scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, existing sampling methods are mostly based on the graph structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weilin Cong , Rana Forsati , Mahmut Kandemir , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Graph Representation Learning (GRL) has become a key paradigm in network analysis, with a plethora of interdisciplinary applications. As the scale of networks increases, most of the widely used learning-based graph representation models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Abdulkadir Çelikkanat , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Apostolos N. Papadopoulos

Message-passing architectures struggle to sufficiently model long-range dependencies in node and graph prediction tasks. We propose a novel approach exploiting hierarchical graph structures and adaptive random walks to address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Joël Mathys , Federico Errica

We study the biased random walk process in random uncorrelated networks with arbitrary degree distributions. In our model, the bias is defined by the preferential transition probability, which, in recent years, has been commonly used to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Node embeddings map graph vertices into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving structural information. They are central to tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and signal reconstruction. A key goal is to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Valentin de Bassompierre , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Laurent Jacques

We propose a Bayesian approach, called the posterior spectral embedding, for estimating the latent positions in random dot product graphs, and prove its optimality. Unlike the classical spectral-based adjacency/Laplacian spectral embedding,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Fangzheng Xie , Yanxun Xu