Wasserstein Adversarially Regularized Graph Autoencoder

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1. What is Wasserstein distance?

2. What is the optimization goal of Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE)?

3. What is the 1-Wasserstein distance?

4. How does the Graph Autoencoder use GCN for node feature encoding?

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Wasserstein distance, also known as Earth-Mover distance, is a popular metric in machine learning research for measuring the distance between distributions. It is suitable for estimating distributions with disjoint supports, unlike other commonly used metrics such as KL divergence and Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence. Wasserstein distance has gained popularity in various applications, including Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGAN) and Wasserstein Autoencoder (WAE). In Wasserstein Adversarially Regularized Graph Autoencoder (WARGA), Wasserstein distance is used to directly regularize the encoded latent distribution to a target distribution, providing a more natural explanation for regularization compared to adversarial methods that use artificially designed discriminators.

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The optimization goal of Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE) is to maximize the variational lower bound L. This is achieved by minimizing the cross entropy loss and the KL divergence between the encoded latent distribution q(z|A,X) and the prior distribution p(z). By doing so, VGAE aims to reconstruct the adjacency matrix A with high accuracy while ensuring that the encoded latent embeddings z follow the specified prior distribution. This optimization process allows VGAE to perform link prediction tasks effectively by capturing the underlying structure and features of the graph.

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The 1-Wasserstein distance is a measure between two distributions P r and P g, defined as the expected value of the distance between random variables r and g. It is intractable in its original form, but can be reformulated using Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality. This reformulation involves a continuous function f that satisfies 1-Lipschitz continuity. In Wasserstein GAN, the Wasserstein distance is solved using a specific equation with a parameterized function f, which is constrained to be 1-Lipschitz continuous. In practice, the parameters of f are clipped into a fixed range to facilitate optimization during iterations.

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The Graph Autoencoder utilizes a 2-layer GCN as generator G w (A, X) to encode the original node features X R N xc with the topological structure A into a low-dimensional representation. The new 'weighted' adjacency matrix A is obtained by adding the degree matrix Dii to the adjacency matrix A, where Dii is the degree of each node in A. ReLU activation function is used in the neural networks with weights W 1 R cxd and W 2 R dxe. The output matrix Z contains latent embeddings z i for each node v i V as row-vectors. The latent representation follows a standard Gaussian distribution N (0, I), denoted by P r. The distribution of the embedding generated by G w is denoted by P g (z|A, X). The objective is to minimize the cross entropy loss over the parameters w in G by reconstructing the adjacency matrix using an inner-product decoder. The sigmoid function s(t) = 1/(1 + exp(-t)) is used to restrain the output into the range (0,1).

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The Wasserstein regularizer is a technique used to minimize the 1-Wasserstein distance between the encoded distribution P g(z|A, X) and the target distribution P r. It is introduced to force the encoded distribution into the target distribution, which is represented by N(0, I). The regularizer is formulated using a fully connected neural network parameterized by ph, with weights and biases in the hidden layers. The generator G w aims to minimize this distance, leading to an adversarial-like framework with a minimax objective. The final loss function for training combines the Wasserstein regularizer with the objective of reconstruction for the generator G w.

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In link prediction, the proposed model is compared to GAE, VGAE, ARGA, and ARVGA using AUC score and AP score. The encoder of the proposed model is built identical to other baselines with 32 neurons in the first hidden layer and 16 neurons in the second embedding layer. The Wasserstein regularizer is constructed similar to the discriminator in ARGA with 2 hidden layers (16-neuron and 64-neuron). For Cora and Citeseer, the proposed model is trained for 200 epochs via Adam optimizer with a learning rate of 0.001. For PubMed, which is larger with around 20k nodes and 44k links, the model is trained for 1500 epochs with a learning rate of 0.005. This fair comparison allows researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model in link prediction tasks.

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WARGA outperforms all four baselines on Cora and Citeseer, with an average increase in AUC and AP scores by 0.5%. On PubMed dataset, WARGA achieves competitive results, with AUC and AP scores only 0.3% and 0.1% lower than ARGA respectively. This demonstrates the effectiveness of incorporating a Wasserstein regularizer in link prediction models.

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The hyper-parameter analysis explores WARGA's performance with various encoding layers. The investigated combinations include first encoding layers with 32, 64, and 128 neurons, and second embedding layers with 16, 32, 64, and 128 neurons. The results, shown in Figure 2, indicate that adding neurons to the second embedding layer with a 32-neuron first encoding layer significantly improves performance. However, this benefit diminishes as the number of neurons in the first encoding layer increases. Conversely, when given a 16-neuron first encoding layer, the performance differences between encoding layers are more significant, but these gaps tend to shrink as the embedding neurons increase from 16 to 128.

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Node clustering using K-means algorithm based on the embedding learned from link prediction task performs well on Cora and Citeseer datasets. The proposed method outperforms all baselines by a margin of around 3% to 5% in every metric. For Cora and Citeseer datasets, the method achieves better results compared to the baselines in terms of accuracy and ARI metrics. However, for the PubMed dataset, VGAE shows the best results under Acc and ARI metrics, while WARGA achieves the best NMI score. Overall, the proposed method demonstrates significant improvements in node clustering performance.

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1. What is Wasserstein distance?

2. What is the optimization goal of Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE)?

3. What is the 1-Wasserstein distance?

4. How does the Graph Autoencoder use GCN for node feature encoding?

5. What is the Wasserstein regularizer?

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