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Graph self-supervised learning seeks to learn effective graph representations without relying on labeled data. Among various approaches, graph autoencoders (GAEs) have gained significant attention for their efficiency and scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Liu , Deyu Bo , Wenxuan Cao , Yuan Fang , Yawen Li , Chuan Shi

Graph representation learning is a fundamental research issue and benefits a wide range of applications on graph-structured data. Conventional artificial neural network-based methods such as graph neural networks (GNNs) and variational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hanxuan Yang , Ruike Zhang , Qingchao Kong , Wenji Mao

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is a widely used generative model for learning latent representations. Burda et al. in their seminal paper showed that learning capacity of VAE is limited by over-pruning. It is a phenomenon where a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Martin Kleinsteuber

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu

Representing graph data in a low-dimensional space for subsequent tasks is the purpose of attributed graph embedding. Most existing neural network approaches learn latent representations by minimizing reconstruction errors. Rare work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Bozhen Hu , Zelin Zang , Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

We propose a combination of a variational autoencoder and a transformer based model which fully utilises graph convolutional and graph pooling layers to operate directly on graphs. The transformer model implements a novel node encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Joshua Mitton , Hans M. Senn , Klaas Wynne , Roderick Murray-Smith

Learning from complex real-life networks is a lively research area, with recent advances in learning information-rich, low-dimensional network node representations. However, state-of-the-art methods are not necessarily interpretable and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sebastian Mežnar , Nada Lavrač , Blaž Škrlj

Autoencoders are effective deep learning models that can function as generative models and learn latent representations for downstream tasks. The use of graph autoencoders - with both encoder and decoder implemented as message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Magnus Cunow , Gerrit Großmann

We present two instances, L-GAE and L-VGAE, of the variational graph auto-encoding family (VGAE) based on separating feature propagation operations from graph convolution layers typically found in graph learning methods to a single linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Paul Scherer , Helena Andres-Terre , Pietro Lio , Mateja Jamnik

We present a novel end-to-end framework that generates highly compact (typically 6-15 dimensions), discrete (int4 type), and interpretable node representations, termed node identifiers (node IDs), to tackle inference challenges on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yuankai Luo , Hongkang Li , Qijiong Liu , Lei Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

Over the last few years, graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) emerged as powerful node embedding methods, with promising performances on challenging tasks such as link prediction and node clustering. Graph AE, VAE and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Guillaume Salha , Romain Hennequin , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Node representation learning for signed directed networks has received considerable attention in many real-world applications such as link sign prediction, node classification and node recommendation. The challenge lies in how to adequately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Maosen Li , Ya zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Learning graph embeddings is a crucial task in graph mining tasks. An effective graph embedding model can learn low-dimensional representations from graph-structured data for data publishing benefiting various downstream applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Qi Hu , Yangqiu Song

We develop a framework for incorporating structured graphical models in the \emph{encoders} of variational autoencoders (VAEs) that allows us to induce interpretable representations through approximate variational inference. This allows us…

While node semantics have been extensively explored in social networks, little research attention has been paid to profile edge semantics, i.e., social relations. Ideal edge semantics should not only show that two users are connected, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Yang , Jieyu Zhang , Haonan Wang , Sha Li , Myungwan Kim , Matt Walker , Yiou Xiao , Jiawei Han

Multimodal recommender systems amalgamate multimodal information (e.g., textual descriptions, images) into a collaborative filtering framework to provide more accurate recommendations. While the incorporation of multimodal information could…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Xin Zhou , Chunyan Miao

Representation learning for graphs enables the application of standard machine learning algorithms and data analysis tools to graph data. Replacing discrete unordered objects such as graph nodes by real-valued vectors is at the heart of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Konstantin Kutzkov

Community detection is a fundamental and important issue in network science, but there are only a few community detection algorithms based on graph neural networks, among which unsupervised algorithms are almost blank. By fusing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chenyang Qiu , Zhaoci Huang , Wenzhe Xu , Huijia Li

Graphs are ubiquitous due to their flexibility in representing social and technological systems as networks of interacting elements. Graph representation learning methods, such as node embeddings, are powerful approaches to map nodes into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Simone Piaggesi , Megha Khosla , André Panisson , Avishek Anand

With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGAD seeks to identify entire graphs that deviate from normal behavioral patterns. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Qingfeng Chen , Haojin Zeng , Jingyi Jie , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng