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Jianxin Li

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arXiv2024

GraphMoRE: Mitigating Topological Heterogeneity via Mixture of Riemannian Experts

Real-world graphs have inherently complex and diverse topological patterns, known as topological heterogeneity. Most existing works learn graph representation in a single constant curvature space that is insufficient to match the complex geometric shapes, resulting in low-quality embeddings with high distortion. This also constitutes a critical challenge for graph foundation models, which are expected to uniformly handle a wide variety of diverse graph data. Recent studies have indicated that product manifold gains the possibility to address topological heterogeneity. However, the product manifold is still homogeneous, which is inadequate and inflexible for representing the mixed heterogeneous topology. In this paper, we propose a novel Graph Mixture of Riemannian Experts (GraphMoRE) framework to effectively tackle topological heterogeneity by personalized fine-grained topology geometry pattern preservation. Specifically, to minimize the embedding distortion, we propose a topology-aware gating mechanism to select the optimal embedding space for each node. By fusing the outputs of diverse Riemannian experts with learned gating weights, we construct personalized mixed curvature spaces for nodes, effectively embedding the graph into a heterogeneous manifold with varying curvatures at different points. Furthermore, to fairly measure pairwise distances between different embedding spaces, we present a concise and effective alignment strategy. Extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance with lower distortion, highlighting its potential for modeling complex graphs with topological heterogeneity, and providing a novel architectural perspective for graph foundation models.

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arXiv2024

Lightweight Contenders: Navigating Semi-Supervised Text Mining through Peer Collaboration and Self Transcendence

The semi-supervised learning (SSL) strategy in lightweight models requires reducing annotated samples and facilitating cost-effective inference. However, the constraint on model parameters, imposed by the scarcity of training labels, limits the SSL performance. In this paper, we introduce PS-NET, a novel framework tailored for semi-supervised text mining with lightweight models. PS-NET incorporates online distillation to train lightweight student models by imitating the Teacher model. It also integrates an ensemble of student peers that collaboratively instruct each other. Additionally, PS-NET implements a constant adversarial perturbation schema to further self-augmentation by progressive generalizing. Our PS-NET, equipped with a 2-layer distilled BERT, exhibits notable performance enhancements over SOTA lightweight SSL frameworks of FLiText and DisCo in SSL text classification with extremely rare labelled data.

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arXiv2024

GC-Bench: An Open and Unified Benchmark for Graph Condensation

Graph condensation (GC) has recently garnered considerable attention due to its ability to reduce large-scale graph datasets while preserving their essential properties. The core concept of GC is to create a smaller, more manageable graph that retains the characteristics of the original graph. Despite the proliferation of graph condensation methods developed in recent years, there is no comprehensive evaluation and in-depth analysis, which creates a great obstacle to understanding the progress in this field. To fill this gap, we develop a comprehensive Graph Condensation Benchmark (GC-Bench) to analyze the performance of graph condensation in different scenarios systematically. Specifically, GC-Bench systematically investigates the characteristics of graph condensation in terms of the following dimensions: effectiveness, transferability, and complexity. We comprehensively evaluate 12 state-of-the-art graph condensation algorithms in node-level and graph-level tasks and analyze their performance in 12 diverse graph datasets. Further, we have developed an easy-to-use library for training and evaluating different GC methods to facilitate reproducible research. The GC-Bench library is available at https://github.com/RingBDStack/GC-Bench.

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arXiv2024

Sparser Training for On-Device Recommendation Systems

Recommender systems often rely on large embedding tables that map users and items to dense vectors of uniform size, leading to substantial memory consumption and inefficiencies. This is particularly problematic in memory-constrained environments like mobile and Web of Things (WoT) applications, where scalability and real-time performance are critical. Various research efforts have sought to address these issues. Although embedding pruning methods utilizing Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) stand out due to their low training and inference costs, consistent sparsity, and end-to-end differentiability, they face key challenges. Firstly, they typically initializes the mask matrix, which is used to prune redundant parameters, with random uniform sparse initialization. This strategy often results in suboptimal performance as it creates unstructured and inefficient connections. Secondly, they tend to favor the users/items sampled in the single batch immediately before weight exploration when they reactivate pruned parameters with large gradient magnitudes, which does not necessarily improve the overall performance. Thirdly, while they use sparse weights during forward passes, they still need to compute dense gradients during backward passes. In this paper, we propose SparseRec, an lightweight embedding method based on DST, to address these issues. Specifically, SparseRec initializes the mask matrix using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. It accumulates gradients to identify the inactive parameters that can better improve the model performance after activation. Furthermore, it avoids dense gradients during backpropagation by sampling a subset of important vectors. Gradients are calculated only for parameters in this subset, thus maintaining sparsity during training in both forward and backward passes.

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arXiv2024

HyCubE: Efficient Knowledge Hypergraph 3D Circular Convolutional Embedding

Knowledge hypergraph embedding models are usually computationally expensive due to the inherent complex semantic information. However, existing works mainly focus on improving the effectiveness of knowledge hypergraph embedding, making the model architecture more complex and redundant. It is desirable and challenging for knowledge hypergraph embedding to reach a trade-off between model effectiveness and efficiency. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end efficient knowledge hypergraph embedding model, HyCubE, which designs a novel 3D circular convolutional neural network and the alternate mask stack strategy to enhance the interaction and extraction of feature information comprehensively. Furthermore, our proposed model achieves a better trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency by adaptively adjusting the 3D circular convolutional layer structure to handle n-ary knowledge tuples of different arities with fewer parameters. In addition, we use a knowledge hypergraph 1-N multilinear scoring way to accelerate the model training efficiency further. Finally, extensive experimental results on all datasets demonstrate that our proposed model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, with an average improvement of 8.22% and a maximum improvement of 33.82% across all metrics. Meanwhile, HyCubE is 6.12x faster, GPU memory usage is 52.67% lower, and the number of parameters is reduced by 85.21% compared with the average metric of the latest state-of-the-art baselines.

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arXiv2024

Beyond Human Preferences: Exploring Reinforcement Learning Trajectory Evaluation and Improvement through LLMs

Reinforcement learning (RL) faces challenges in evaluating policy trajectories within intricate game tasks due to the difficulty in designing comprehensive and precise reward functions. This inherent difficulty curtails the broader application of RL within game environments characterized by diverse constraints. Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) presents a pioneering framework that capitalizes on human preferences as pivotal reward signals, thereby circumventing the need for meticulous reward engineering. However, obtaining preference data from human experts is costly and inefficient, especially under conditions marked by complex constraints. To tackle this challenge, we propose a LLM-enabled automatic preference generation framework named LLM4PG , which harnesses the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to abstract trajectories, rank preferences, and reconstruct reward functions to optimize conditioned policies. Experiments on tasks with complex language constraints demonstrated the effectiveness of our LLM-enabled reward functions, accelerating RL convergence and overcoming stagnation caused by slow or absent progress under original reward structures. This approach mitigates the reliance on specialized human knowledge and demonstrates the potential of LLMs to enhance RL's effectiveness in complex environments in the wild.

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arXiv2024

Comparative Analysis Vision of Worldwide AI Courses

This research investigates the curriculum structures of undergraduate Artificial Intelligence (AI) education across universities worldwide. By examining the curricula of leading universities, the research seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of AI education on a global scale, facilitating the alignment of educational practices with the evolving needs of the AI landscape. This research delves into the diverse course structures of leading universities, exploring contemporary trends and priorities to reveal the nuanced approaches in AI education. It also investigates the core AI topics and learning contents frequently taught, comparing them with the CS2023 curriculum guidance to identify convergence and divergence. Additionally, it examines how universities across different countries approach AI education, analyzing educational objectives, priorities, potential careers, and methodologies to understand the global landscape and implications of AI pedagogy.

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arXiv2024

Precise influence evaluation in complex networks

Evaluating node influence is fundamental for identifying key nodes in complex networks. Existing methods typically rely on generic indicators to rank node influence across diverse networks, thereby ignoring the individualized features of each network itself. Actually, node influence stems not only from general features but the multi-scale individualized information encompassing specific network structure and task. Here we design an active learning architecture to predict node influence quantitively and precisely, which samples representative nodes based on graph entropy correlation matrix integrating multi-scale individualized information. This brings two intuitive advantages: (1) discovering potential high-influence but weak-connected nodes that are usually ignored in existing methods, (2) improving the influence maximization strategy by deducing influence interference. Significantly, our architecture demonstrates exceptional transfer learning capabilities across multiple types of networks, which can identify those key nodes with large disputation across different existing methods. Additionally, our approach, combined with a simple greedy algorithm, exhibits dominant performance in solving the influence maximization problem. This architecture holds great potential for applications in graph mining and prediction tasks.

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arXiv2024

Hyperbolic Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation

Diffusion models have made significant contributions to computer vision, sparking a growing interest in the community recently regarding the application of them to graph generation. Existing discrete graph diffusion models exhibit heightened computational complexity and diminished training efficiency. A preferable and natural way is to directly diffuse the graph within the latent space. However, due to the non-Euclidean structure of graphs is not isotropic in the latent space, the existing latent diffusion models effectively make it difficult to capture and preserve the topological information of graphs. To address the above challenges, we propose a novel geometrically latent diffusion framework HypDiff. Specifically, we first establish a geometrically latent space with interpretability measures based on hyperbolic geometry, to define anisotropic latent diffusion processes for graphs. Then, we propose a geometrically latent diffusion process that is constrained by both radial and angular geometric properties, thereby ensuring the preservation of the original topological properties in the generative graphs. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superior effectiveness of HypDiff for graph generation with various topologies.

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arXiv2024

Variational Multi-Modal Hypergraph Attention Network for Multi-Modal Relation Extraction

Multi-modal relation extraction (MMRE) is a challenging task that aims to identify relations between entities in text leveraging image information. Existing methods are limited by their neglect of the multiple entity pairs in one sentence sharing very similar contextual information (ie, the same text and image), resulting in increased difficulty in the MMRE task. To address this limitation, we propose the Variational Multi-Modal Hypergraph Attention Network (VM-HAN) for multi-modal relation extraction. Specifically, we first construct a multi-modal hypergraph for each sentence with the corresponding image, to establish different high-order intra-/inter-modal correlations for different entity pairs in each sentence. We further design the Variational Hypergraph Attention Networks (V-HAN) to obtain representational diversity among different entity pairs using Gaussian distribution and learn a better hypergraph structure via variational attention. VM-HAN achieves state-of-the-art performance on the multi-modal relation extraction task, outperforming existing methods in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

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arXiv2024

Effective Individual Fairest Community Search over Heterogeneous Information Networks

Community search over heterogeneous information networks has been applied to wide domains, such as activity organization and team formation. From these scenarios, the members of a group with the same treatment often have different levels of activity and workloads, which causes unfairness in the treatment between active members and inactive members (called individual unfairness). However, existing works do not pay attention to individual fairness and do not sufficiently consider the rich semantics of HINs (e.g., high-order structure), which disables complex queries. To fill the gap, we formally define the issue of individual fairest community search over HINs (denoted as IFCS), which aims to find a set of vertices from the HIN that own the same type, close relationships, and small difference of activity level and has been demonstrated to be NP-hard. To do this, we first develop an exploration-based filter that reduces the search space of the community effectively. Further, to avoid repeating computation and prune unfair communities in advance, we propose a message-based scheme and a lower bound-based scheme. At last, we conduct extensive experiments on four real-world datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed algorithms, which achieve at least X3 times faster than the baseline solution.

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arXiv2024

Dynamic Graph Information Bottleneck

Dynamic Graphs widely exist in the real world, which carry complicated spatial and temporal feature patterns, challenging their representation learning. Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DGNNs) have shown impressive predictive abilities by exploiting the intrinsic dynamics. However, DGNNs exhibit limited robustness, prone to adversarial attacks. This paper presents the novel Dynamic Graph Information Bottleneck (DGIB) framework to learn robust and discriminative representations. Leveraged by the Information Bottleneck (IB) principle, we first propose the expected optimal representations should satisfy the Minimal-Sufficient-Consensual (MSC) Condition. To compress redundant as well as conserve meritorious information into latent representation, DGIB iteratively directs and refines the structural and feature information flow passing through graph snapshots. To meet the MSC Condition, we decompose the overall IB objectives into DGIB$_{MS}$ and DGIB$_C$, in which the DGIB$_{MS}$ channel aims to learn the minimal and sufficient representations, with the DGIB$_{MS}$ channel guarantees the predictive consensus. Extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic dynamic graph datasets demonstrate the superior robustness of DGIB against adversarial attacks compared with state-of-the-art baselines in the link prediction task. To the best of our knowledge, DGIB is the first work to learn robust representations of dynamic graphs grounded in the information-theoretic IB principle.

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arXiv2024

Uncertainty-Aware Relational Graph Neural Network for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion

Few-shot knowledge graph completion (FKGC) aims to query the unseen facts of a relation given its few-shot reference entity pairs. The side effect of noises due to the uncertainty of entities and triples may limit the few-shot learning, but existing FKGC works neglect such uncertainty, which leads them more susceptible to limited reference samples with noises. In this paper, we propose a novel uncertainty-aware few-shot KG completion framework (UFKGC) to model uncertainty for a better understanding of the limited data by learning representations under Gaussian distribution. Uncertainty representation is first designed for estimating the uncertainty scope of the entity pairs after transferring feature representations into a Gaussian distribution. Further, to better integrate the neighbors with uncertainty characteristics for entity features, we design an uncertainty-aware relational graph neural network (UR-GNN) to conduct convolution operations between the Gaussian distributions. Then, multiple random samplings are conducted for reference triples within the Gaussian distribution to generate smooth reference representations during the optimization. The final completion score for each query instance is measured by the designed uncertainty optimization to make our approach more robust to the noises in few-shot scenarios. Experimental results show that our approach achieves excellent performance on two benchmark datasets compared to its competitors.

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arXiv2024

MIKO: Multimodal Intention Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models for Social-Media Commonsense Discovery

Social media has become a ubiquitous tool for connecting with others, staying updated with news, expressing opinions, and finding entertainment. However, understanding the intention behind social media posts remains challenging due to the implicitness of intentions in social media posts, the need for cross-modality understanding of both text and images, and the presence of noisy information such as hashtags, misspelled words, and complicated abbreviations. To address these challenges, we present MIKO, a Multimodal Intention Kowledge DistillatiOn framework that collaboratively leverages a Large Language Model (LLM) and a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) to uncover users' intentions. Specifically, we use an MLLM to interpret the image and an LLM to extract key information from the text and finally instruct the LLM again to generate intentions. By applying MIKO to publicly available social media datasets, we construct an intention knowledge base featuring 1,372K intentions rooted in 137,287 posts. We conduct a two-stage annotation to verify the quality of the generated knowledge and benchmark the performance of widely used LLMs for intention generation. We further apply MIKO to a sarcasm detection dataset and distill a student model to demonstrate the downstream benefits of applying intention knowledge.

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arXiv2024

Hide Your Model: A Parameter Transmission-free Federated Recommender System

With the growing concerns regarding user data privacy, Federated Recommender System (FedRec) has garnered significant attention recently due to its privacy-preserving capabilities. Existing FedRecs generally adhere to a learning protocol in which a central server shares a global recommendation model with clients, and participants achieve collaborative learning by frequently communicating the model's public parameters. Nevertheless, this learning framework has two drawbacks that limit its practical usability: (1) It necessitates a global-sharing recommendation model; however, in real-world scenarios, information related to the recommender model, including its algorithm and parameters, constitutes the platforms' intellectual property. Hence, service providers are unlikely to release such information actively. (2) The communication costs of model parameter transmission are expensive since the model parameters are usually high-dimensional matrices. With the model size increasing, the communication burden will be the bottleneck for such traditional FedRecs. Given the above limitations, this paper introduces a novel parameter transmission-free federated recommendation framework that balances the protection between users' data privacy and platforms' model privacy, namely PTF-FedRec. Specifically, participants in PTF-FedRec collaboratively exchange knowledge by sharing their predictions within a privacy-preserving mechanism. Through this way, the central server can learn a recommender model without disclosing its model parameters or accessing clients' raw data, preserving both the server's model privacy and users' data privacy. Besides, since clients and the central server only need to communicate prediction scores which are just a few real numbers, the overhead is significantly reduced compared to traditional FedRecs. The code is available at\url{https://github.com/hi-weiyuan/PTF-FedRec}.

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arXiv2024

PhoGAD: Graph-based Anomaly Behavior Detection with Persistent Homology Optimization

A multitude of toxic online behaviors, ranging from network attacks to anonymous traffic and spam, have severely disrupted the smooth operation of networks. Due to the inherent sender-receiver nature of network behaviors, graph-based frameworks are commonly used for detecting anomalous behaviors. However, in real-world scenarios, the boundary between normal and anomalous behaviors tends to be ambiguous. The local heterophily of graphs interferes with the detection, and existing methods based on nodes or edges introduce unwanted noise into representation results, thereby impacting the effectiveness of detection. To address these issues, we propose PhoGAD, a graph-based anomaly detection framework. PhoGAD leverages persistent homology optimization to clarify behavioral boundaries. Building upon this, the weights of adjacent edges are designed to mitigate the effects of local heterophily. Subsequently, to tackle the noise problem, we conduct a formal analysis and propose a disentangled representation-based explicit embedding method, ultimately achieving anomaly behavior detection. Experiments on intrusion, traffic, and spam datasets verify that PhoGAD has surpassed the performance of state-of-the-art (SOTA) frameworks in detection efficacy. Notably, PhoGAD demonstrates robust detection even with diminished anomaly proportions, highlighting its applicability to real-world scenarios. The analysis of persistent homology demonstrates its effectiveness in capturing the topological structure formed by normal edge features. Additionally, ablation experiments validate the effectiveness of the innovative mechanisms integrated within PhoGAD.

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arXiv2023

Environment-Aware Dynamic Graph Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Dynamic graph neural networks (DGNNs) are increasingly pervasive in exploiting spatio-temporal patterns on dynamic graphs. However, existing works fail to generalize under distribution shifts, which are common in real-world scenarios. As the generation of dynamic graphs is heavily influenced by latent environments, investigating their impacts on the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is critical. However, it remains unexplored with the following two major challenges: (1) How to properly model and infer the complex environments on dynamic graphs with distribution shifts? (2) How to discover invariant patterns given inferred spatio-temporal environments? To solve these challenges, we propose a novel Environment-Aware dynamic Graph LEarning (EAGLE) framework for OOD generalization by modeling complex coupled environments and exploiting spatio-temporal invariant patterns. Specifically, we first design the environment-aware EA-DGNN to model environments by multi-channel environments disentangling. Then, we propose an environment instantiation mechanism for environment diversification with inferred distributions. Finally, we discriminate spatio-temporal invariant patterns for out-of-distribution prediction by the invariant pattern recognition mechanism and perform fine-grained causal interventions node-wisely with a mixture of instantiated environment samples. Experiments on real-world and synthetic dynamic graph datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method against state-of-the-art baselines under distribution shifts. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study OOD generalization on dynamic graphs from the environment learning perspective.

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arXiv2023

CNTLS: A Benchmark Dataset for Abstractive or Extractive Chinese Timeline Summarization

Timeline summarization (TLS) involves creating summaries of long-running events using dated summaries from numerous news articles. However, limited data availability has significantly slowed down the development of timeline summarization. In this paper, we introduce the CNTLS dataset, a versatile resource for Chinese timeline summarization. CNTLS encompasses 77 real-life topics, each with 2524 documents and summarizes nearly 60\% days duration compression on average all topics. We meticulously analyze the corpus using well-known metrics, focusing on the style of the summaries and the complexity of the summarization task. Specifically, we evaluate the performance of various extractive and generative summarization systems on the CNTLS corpus to provide benchmarks and support further research. To the best of our knowledge, CNTLS is the first Chinese timeline summarization dataset. The dataset and source code are released\footnote{Code and data available at: \emph{\url{https://github.com/OpenSUM/CNTLS}}.}.

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