Neural Temporal Walks: Motif-Aware Representation Learning on Continuous-Time Dynamic Graphs

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Jin, M
Li, YF
Pan, S
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Koyejo, S

Mohamed, S

Agarwal, A

Belgrave, D

Cho, K

Oh, A

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2022
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Continuous-time dynamic graphs naturally abstract many real-world systems, such as social and transactional networks. While the research on continuous-time dynamic graph representation learning has made significant advances recently, neither graph topological properties nor temporal dependencies have been well-considered and explicitly modeled in capturing dynamic patterns. In this paper, we introduce a new approach, Neural Temporal Walks (NeurTWs), for representation learning on continuous-time dynamic graphs. By considering not only time constraints but also structural and tree traversal properties, our method conducts spatiotemporal-biased random walks to retrieve a set of representative motifs, enabling temporal nodes to be characterized effectively. With a component based on neural ordinary differential equations, the extracted motifs allow for irregularly-sampled temporal nodes to be embedded explicitly over multiple different interaction time intervals, enabling the effective capture of the underlying spatiotemporal dynamics. To enrich supervision signals, we further design a harder contrastive pretext task for model optimization. Our method demonstrates overwhelming superiority under both transductive and inductive settings on six real-world datasets.

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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

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35

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Neural networks

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Jin, M; Li, YF; Pan, S, Neural Temporal Walks: Motif-Aware Representation Learning on Continuous-Time Dynamic Graphs, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022, 35