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Foundations and modelling of dynamic networks using Dynamic Graph Neural Networks: A survey
Dynamic networks are used in a wide range of fields, including social network
analysis, recommender systems, and epidemiology. Representing complex networks
as structures changing over time allow network models to leverage not only
structural but also temporal patterns. However, as dynamic network literature
stems from diverse fields and makes use of inconsistent terminology, it is
challenging to navigate. Meanwhile, graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained a
lot of attention in recent years for their ability to perform well on a range
of network science tasks, such as link prediction and node classification.
Despite the popularity of graph neural networks and the proven benefits of
dynamic network models, there has been little focus on graph neural networks
for dynamic networks. To address the challenges resulting from the fact that
this research crosses diverse fields as well as to survey dynamic graph neural
networks, this work is split into two main parts. First, to address the
ambiguity of the dynamic network terminology we establish a foundation of
dynamic networks with consistent, detailed terminology and notation. Second, we
present a comprehensive survey of dynamic graph neural network models using the
proposed terminologyComment: 28 pages, 9 figures, 8 table
Attributed Network Embedding for Learning in a Dynamic Environment
Network embedding leverages the node proximity manifested to learn a
low-dimensional node vector representation for each node in the network. The
learned embeddings could advance various learning tasks such as node
classification, network clustering, and link prediction. Most, if not all, of
the existing works, are overwhelmingly performed in the context of plain and
static networks. Nonetheless, in reality, network structure often evolves over
time with addition/deletion of links and nodes. Also, a vast majority of
real-world networks are associated with a rich set of node attributes, and
their attribute values are also naturally changing, with the emerging of new
content patterns and the fading of old content patterns. These changing
characteristics motivate us to seek an effective embedding representation to
capture network and attribute evolving patterns, which is of fundamental
importance for learning in a dynamic environment. To our best knowledge, we are
the first to tackle this problem with the following two challenges: (1) the
inherently correlated network and node attributes could be noisy and
incomplete, it necessitates a robust consensus representation to capture their
individual properties and correlations; (2) the embedding learning needs to be
performed in an online fashion to adapt to the changes accordingly. In this
paper, we tackle this problem by proposing a novel dynamic attributed network
embedding framework - DANE. In particular, DANE first provides an offline
method for a consensus embedding and then leverages matrix perturbation theory
to maintain the freshness of the end embedding results in an online manner. We
perform extensive experiments on both synthetic and real attributed networks to
corroborate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed framework.Comment: 10 page
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