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Variational Inference for Training Graph Neural Networks in Low-Data Regime through Joint Structure-Label Estimation

Danning Lao *, Xinyu Yang *, Qitian Wu, Junchi Yan

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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What Is Graph?

Graph is an important representation of natural structures.

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Graph Neural Network

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Challenge: graph structure that can be used in aggregation is often incomplete

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Challenge: node labels that can be used as�supervision can be very limited

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GCN and GAT’s performance degrades notably with incomplete structure and limited labels

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Can we design a weakly-supervised graph neural network jointly estimating graph structure and node label?

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Formulate our problem setting

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Variational inference for weakly-supervised graph learning

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Two-branch architecture for label-structure joint inference

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Results on Cora

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Results on Citeseer

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Results on Pubmed

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Results under extreme low-data regime

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Case study on Infectious Disease Spreading

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Ablation study on model architecture

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Node classification visualization

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Link prediction visualization

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