TY - JOUR
T1 - Curvature regularization to prevent distortion in graph embedding
AU - Pei, Hongbin
AU - Wei, Bingzhe
AU - Chang, Kevin Chen Chuan
AU - Zhang, Chunxu
AU - Yang, Bo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Recent research on graph embedding has achieved success in various applications. Most graph embedding methods preserve the proximity in a graph into a manifold in an embedding space. We argue an important but neglected problem about this proximity-preserving strategy: Graph topology patterns, while preserved well into an embedding manifold by preserving proximity, may distort in the ambient embedding Euclidean space, and hence to detect them becomes difficult for machine learning models. To address the problem, we propose curvature regularization, to enforce flatness for embedding manifolds, thereby preventing the distortion. We present a novel angle-based sectional curvature, termed ABS curvature, and accordingly three kinds of curvature regularization to induce flat embedding manifolds during graph embedding. We integrate curvature regularization into five popular proximity-preserving embedding methods, and empirical results in two applications show significant improvements on a wide range of open graph datasets.
AB - Recent research on graph embedding has achieved success in various applications. Most graph embedding methods preserve the proximity in a graph into a manifold in an embedding space. We argue an important but neglected problem about this proximity-preserving strategy: Graph topology patterns, while preserved well into an embedding manifold by preserving proximity, may distort in the ambient embedding Euclidean space, and hence to detect them becomes difficult for machine learning models. To address the problem, we propose curvature regularization, to enforce flatness for embedding manifolds, thereby preventing the distortion. We present a novel angle-based sectional curvature, termed ABS curvature, and accordingly three kinds of curvature regularization to induce flat embedding manifolds during graph embedding. We integrate curvature regularization into five popular proximity-preserving embedding methods, and empirical results in two applications show significant improvements on a wide range of open graph datasets.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85108450101
SN - 1049-5258
VL - 2020-December
JO - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
JF - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
T2 - 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2020
Y2 - 6 December 2020 through 12 December 2020
ER -