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Link Prediction with Persistent Homology: An Interactive View

Machine Learning 2021-06-15 v2

Abstract

Link prediction is an important learning task for graph-structured data. In this paper, we propose a novel topological approach to characterize interactions between two nodes. Our topological feature, based on the extended persistent homology, encodes rich structural information regarding the multi-hop paths connecting nodes. Based on this feature, we propose a graph neural network method that outperforms state-of-the-arts on different benchmarks. As another contribution, we propose a novel algorithm to more efficiently compute the extended persistence diagrams for graphs. This algorithm can be generally applied to accelerate many other topological methods for graph learning tasks.

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@article{arxiv.2102.10255,
  title  = {Link Prediction with Persistent Homology: An Interactive View},
  author = {Zuoyu Yan and Tengfei Ma and Liangcai Gao and Zhi Tang and Chao Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10255},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted in ICML2021

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