ATPGNN: Reconstruction of Neighborhood in Graph Neural Networks With Attention-Based Topological Patterns

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been applied in many fields of semi-supervised node classification for non-Euclidean data. However, some GNNs cannot make good use of positive information brought by nodes which are far away from each central node for aggregation operations. These remote nodes with positive information can enhance the representation of the central node. Some GNNs also ignore rich structure information around each central node’s surroundings or entire network. Besides, most of GNNs have a fixed architecture and cannot change their components to adapt to different tasks. In this article, we propose a semi-supervised learning platform ATPGNN with three variable components to overcome the above shortcomings. This novel model can fully adapt to different tasks by changing its components and support inductive learning. The key idea is that we first create a high-order topology graph, which is from similarity of node structure information. Specifically, we reconstruct the relationships between nodes in a potential space obtained by network embedding in graph. Second, we introduce graph representation learning methods to extract representation information of remote nodes on the high-order topology graph. Third, we use some network embedding methods to get graph structure information of each node. Finally, we combine the representation information of remote nodes, graph structure information and feature for each node by attention mechanism, and apply them to learning node representation in graph. Extensive experiments on real attributed networks demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model against traditional GNNs.