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DeepNC: Deep Generative Network Completion

Tran, Cong
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Shin, Won-Yong
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Spitz, Andreas  
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April 1, 2022
Ieee Transactions On Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence

Most network data are collected from partially observable networks with both missing nodes and missing edges, for example, due to limited resources and privacy settings specified by users on social media. Thus, it stands to reason that inferring the missing parts of the networks by performing network completion should precede downstream applications. However, despite this need, the recovery of missing nodes and edges in such incomplete networks is an insufficiently explored problem due to the modeling difficulty, which is much more challenging than link prediction that only infers missing edges. In this paper, we present DeepNC, a novel method for inferring the missing parts of a network based on a deep generative model of graphs. Specifically, our method first learns a likelihood over edges via an autoregressive generative model, and then identifies the graph that maximizes the learned likelihood conditioned on the observable graph topology. Moreover, we propose a computationally efficient DeepNC algorithm that consecutively finds individual nodes that maximize the probability in each node generation step, as well as an enhanced version using the expectation-maximization algorithm. The runtime complexities of both algorithms are shown to be almost linear in the number of nodes in the network. We empirically demonstrate the superiority of DeepNC over state-of-the-art network completion approaches.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3032286
Web of Science ID

WOS:000764815300015

Author(s)
Tran, Cong
Shin, Won-Yong
Spitz, Andreas  
Gertz, Michael
Date Issued

2022-04-01

Publisher

IEEE COMPUTER SOC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence
Volume

44

Issue

4

Start page

1837

End page

1852

Subjects

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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autoregressive generative model

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deep generative model of graphs

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inference

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network completion

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partially observable network

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graphs

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distance

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