SGAT: Simplicial Graph Attention Network

SGAT: Simplicial Graph Attention Network

See Hian Lee, Feng Ji, Wee Peng Tay

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 3192-3200. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/443

Heterogeneous graphs have multiple node and edge types and are semantically richer than homogeneous graphs. To learn such complex semantics, many graph neural network approaches for heterogeneous graphs use metapaths to capture multi-hop interactions between nodes. Typically, features from non-target nodes are not incorporated into the learning procedure. However, there can be nonlinear, high-order interactions involving multiple nodes or edges. In this paper, we present Simplicial Graph Attention Network (SGAT), a simplicial complex approach to represent such high-order interactions by placing features from non-target nodes on the simplices. We then use attention mechanisms and upper adjacencies to generate representations. We empirically demonstrate the efficacy of our approach with node classification tasks on heterogeneous graph datasets and further show SGAT's ability in extracting structural information by employing random node features. Numerical experiments indicate that SGAT performs better than other current state-of-the-art heterogeneous graph learning methods.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Sequence and Graph Learning
Data Mining: Mining Graphs
Data Mining: Mining Heterogenous Data
Machine Learning: Classification
Machine Learning: Representation learning