AAAI 2021technical45 citations

Hierarchical Graph Capsule Network

Jinyu Yang, Peilin Zhao, Yu Rong, Chaochao Yan, Chunyuan Li, Hehuan Ma, Junzhou Huang

Abstract

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) draw their strength from explicitly modeling the topological information of structured data. However, existing GNNs suffer from limited capability in capturing the hierarchical graph representation which plays an important role in graph classification. In this paper, we innovatively propose hierarchical graph capsule network (HGCN) that can jointly learn node embeddings and extract graph hierarchies. Specifically, disentangled graph capsules are established by identifying heterogeneous factors underlying each node, such that their instantiation parameters represent different properties of the same entity. To learn the hierarchical representation, HGCN characterizes the part-whole relationship between lower-level capsules (part) and higher-level capsules (whole) by explicitly considering the structure information among the parts. Experimental studies demonstrate the effectiveness of HGCN and the contribution of each component. Code: https://github.com/uta-smile/HGCN

BibTeX
@inproceedings{aaai2021_hierarchicalgrap,
  title = {Hierarchical Graph Capsule Network},
  author = {Jinyu Yang and Peilin Zhao and Yu Rong and Chaochao Yan and Chunyuan Li and Hehuan Ma and Junzhou Huang},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2021},
  year = {2021}
}