Structure enhanced prototypical alignment for unsupervised cross-domain node classification.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in graph node classification task. However, their performance heavily relies on the availability of high-quality labeled data, which can be time-consuming and labor-intensive to acquire for graph-structured data. Therefore, the task of transferring knowledge from a label-rich graph (source domain) to a completely unlabeled graph (target domain) becomes crucial. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised graph domain adaptation framework called Structure Enhanced Prototypical Alignment (SEPA), which aims to learn domain-invariant representations on non-IID (non-independent and identically distributed) data. Specifically, SEPA captures class-wise semantics by constructing a prototype-based graph and introduces an explicit domain discrepancy metric to align the source and target domains. The proposed SEPA framework is optimized in an end-to-end manner, which could be incorporated into various GNN architectures. Experimental results on several real-world datasets demonstrate that our proposed framework outperforms recent state-of-the-art baselines with different gains.

Authors

  • Meihan Liu
    College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Service Robot, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China. Electronic address: lmh_zju@zju.edu.cn.
  • Zhen Zhang
    School of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao, Shandong, China.
  • Ning Ma
    Key Laboratory of Preparation and Applications of Environmental Friendly Materials (Jilin Normal University), Ministry of Education, Changchun 130103, PR China.
  • Ming Gu
    School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • Haishuai Wang
  • Sheng Zhou
    Department of The First Clinical Medical College of Gansu, University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
  • Jiajun Bu