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GraphOpt: Learning Optimization Models of Graph Formation
Rakshit Trivedi · Jiachen Yang · Hongyuan Zha

Thu Jul 16 06:00 AM -- 06:45 AM & Thu Jul 16 05:00 PM -- 05:45 PM (PDT) @
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Formation mechanisms are fundamental to the study of complex networks, but learning them from observations is challenging. In real-world domains, one often has access only to the final constructed graph, instead of the full construction process, and observed graphs exhibit complex structural properties. In this work, we propose GraphOpt, an end-to-end framework that jointly learns an implicit model of graph structure formation and discovers an underlying optimization mechanism in the form of a latent objective function. The learned objective can serve as an explanation for the observed graph properties, thereby lending itself to transfer across different graphs within a domain. GraphOpt poses link formation in graphs as a sequential decision-making process and solves it using maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning algorithm. Further, it employs a novel continuous latent action space that aids scalability. Empirically, we demonstrate that GraphOpt discovers a latent objective transferable across graphs with different characteristics. GraphOpt also learns a robust stochastic policy that achieves competitive link prediction performance without being explicitly trained on this task and further enables construction of graphs with properties similar to those of the observed graph.

Keywords: Deep Generative Models · Deep Reinforcement Learning · Networks and Relational Learning · Sequential, Network, and Time-Series Modeling

Author Information

Rakshit Trivedi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jiachen Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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