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Position-aware Graph Neural Networks
Jiaxuan You · Rex (Zhitao) Ying · Jure Leskovec

Wed Jun 12 06:30 PM -- 09:00 PM (PDT) @ Pacific Ballroom #171
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Learning node embeddings that capture a node's position within the broader graph structure is crucial for many prediction tasks on graphs. However, existing Graph Neural Network (GNN) architectures have limited power in capturing the position/location of a given node with respect to all other nodes of the graph. Here we propose Position-aware Graph Neural Networks (P-GNNs), a new class of GNNs for computing position-aware node embeddings. P-GNN first samples sets of anchor nodes, computes the distance of a given target node to each anchor-set, and then learns a non-linear distance-weighted aggregation scheme over the anchor-sets. This way P-GNNs can capture positions/locations of nodes with respect to the anchor nodes. P-GNNs have several advantages: they are inductive, scalable, and can incorporate node feature information. We apply P-GNNs to multiple prediction tasks including link prediction and community detection. We show that P-GNNs consistently outperform state of the art GNNs, with up to 66% improvement in terms of the ROC AUC score.

Keywords: Networks and Relational Learning · Representation Learning

Author Information

Jiaxuan You (Stanford University)
Zhitao Ying (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

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