Beyond Weisfeiler–Lehman with local ego-network encodings

Identifying similar network structures is key to capturing graph isomorphisms and learning representations that exploit structural information encoded in graph data. This work shows that ego networks can produce a structural encoding scheme for arbitrary graphs with greater expressivity than the Wei...

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Autores: Alvarez-Gonzalez, Nurudin, Kaltenbrunner, Andreas, Gómez, Vicenç
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositório:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/71827
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71827
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/make5040063
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Graph neural networks
Graph representation learning
Weisfeiler–Lehman
Graph isomorphism
GNN expressivity
Ego networks
Descrição
Resumo:Identifying similar network structures is key to capturing graph isomorphisms and learning representations that exploit structural information encoded in graph data. This work shows that ego networks can produce a structural encoding scheme for arbitrary graphs with greater expressivity than the Weisfeiler–Lehman (1-WL) test. We introduce IGEL, a preprocessing step to produce features that augment node representations by encoding ego networks into sparse vectors that enrich message passing (MP) graph neural networks (GNNs) beyond 1-WL expressivity. We formally describe the relation between IGEL and 1-WL, and characterize its expressive power and limitations. Experiments show that IGEL matches the empirical expressivity of state-of-the-art methods on isomorphism detection while improving performance on nine GNN architectures and six graph machine learning tasks.