File size: 101,768 Bytes
235ce3d
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
443
444
445
446
447
448
449
450
451
452
453
454
455
456
457
458
459
460
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
476
477
478
479
480
481
482
483
484
485
486
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
494
495
496
497
498
499
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
513
514
515
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
561
562
563
564
565
566
567
568
569
570
571
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
579
580
581
582
583
584
585
586
587
588
589
590
591
592
593
594
595
596
597
598
599
600
601
602
603
604
605
606
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637
638
639
640
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
650
651
652
653
654
655
656
657
658
659
660
661
662
663
664
665
666
667
668
669
670
671
672
673
674
675
676
677
678
679
680
681
682
683
684
685
686
687
688
689
690
691
692
693
694
695
696
697
698
699
700
701
702
703
704
705
706
707
708
709
710
711
712
713
714
715
716
717
718
719
720
721
722
723
724
725
726
727
728
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
736
737
738
739
740
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750
751
752
753
754
755
756
757
758
759
760
761
762
763
764
765
766
767
768
769
770
771
772
773
774
775
776
777
778
779
780
781
782
783
784
785
786
787
788
789
790
791
792
793
794
795
796
797
798
799
800
801
802
803
804
805
806
807
808
809
810
811
812
813
814
815
816
817
818
819
820
821
822
823
824
825
826
827
828
829
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
838
839
840
841
842
843
844
845
846
847
848
849
850
851
852
853
854
855
856
857
858
859
860
861
862
863
864
865
866
867
868
869
870
871
872
873
874
875
876
877
878
879
880
881
882
883
884
885
886
887
888
889
890
891
892
893
894
895
896
897
898
899
900
901
902
903
904
905
906
907
908
909
910
911
912
913
914
915
916
917
918
919
920
921
922
923
924
925
926
927
928
929
930
931
932
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
940
941
942
943
944
945
946
947
948
949
950
951
952
953
954
955
956
957
958
959
960
961
962
963
964
965
966
967
968
969
970
971
972
973
974
975
976
977
978
979
980
981
982
983
984
985
986
987
988
989
990
991
992
993
994
995
996
997
998
999
1000
1001
1002
1003
1004
1005
1006
1007
1008
1009
1010
1011
1012
1013
1014
1015
1016
1017
1018
1019
1020
1021
1022
1023
1024
1025
1026
1027
1028
1029
1030
1031
1032
1033
1034
1035
1036
1037
1038
1039
1040
1041
1042
1043
1044
1045
1046
1047
1048
1049
1050
1051
1052
1053
1054
1055
1056
1057
1058
1059
1060
1061
1062
1063
1064
1065
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070
1071
1072
1073
1074
1075
1076
1077
1078
1079
1080
1081
1082
1083
1084
1085
1086
1087
1088
1089
1090
1091
1092
1093
1094
1095
1096
1097
1098
1099
1100
1101
1102
1103
1104
1105
1106
1107
1108
1109
1110
1111
1112
1113
1114
1115
1116
1117
1118
1119
1120
1121
1122
1123
1124
1125
1126
1127
1128
1129
1130
1131
1132
1133
1134
1135
1136
1137
1138
1139
1140
1141
1142
1143
1144
1145
1146
1147
1148
1149
1150
1151
1152
1153
1154
1155
1156
1157
1158
1159
1160
1161
1162
1163
1164
1165
1166
1167
1168
1169
1170
1171
1172
1173
1174
1175
1176
1177
1178
1179
1180
1181
1182
1183
1184
1185
1186
1187
1188
1189
1190
1191
1192
1193
1194
1195
1196
1197
1198
1199
1200
1201
1202
1203
1204
1205
1206
1207
1208
1209
1210
1211
1212
1213
1214
1215
1216
1217
1218
1219
1220
1221
1222
1223
1224
1225
1226
1227
1228
1229
1230
1231
1232
1233
1234
1235
1236
1237
1238
1239
1240
1241
1242
1243
1244
1245
1246
1247
1248
1249
1250
1251
1252
1253
1254
1255
1256
1257
1258
1259
1260
1261
1262
1263
1264
1265
1266
1267
1268
1269
1270
1271
1272
1273
1274
1275
1276
1277
1278
1279
1280
1281
1282
1283
1284
1285
1286
1287
1288
1289
1290
1291
1292
1293
1294
1295
1296
1297
1298
1299
1300
1301
1302
1303
1304
1305
1306
1307
1308
1309
1310
1311
1312
1313
1314
1315
1316
1317
1318
1319
1320
1321
1322
1323
1324
1325
1326
1327
1328
1329
1330
1331
1332
1333
1334
1335
1336
1337
1338
1339
1340
1341
1342
1343
1344
1345
1346
1347
1348
1349
1350
1351
1352
1353
1354
1355
1356
1357
1358
1359
1360
1361
1362
1363
1364
1365
1366
1367
1368
1369
1370
1371
1372
1373
1374
1375
1376
1377
1378
1379
1380
1381
1382
1383
1384
1385
1386
1387
1388
1389
1390
1391
1392
1393
1394
1395
1396
1397
1398
1399
1400
1401
1402
1403
1404
1405
1406
1407
1408
1409
1410
1411
1412
1413
1414
1415
1416
1417
1418
1419
1420
1421
1422
1423
1424
1425
1426
1427
1428
1429
1430
1431
1432
1433
1434
1435
1436
1437
1438
1439
1440
1441
1442
1443
1444
1445
1446
1447
1448
1449
1450
1451
1452
1453
1454
1455
1456
1457
1458
1459
1460
1461
1462
1463
1464
1465
1466
1467
1468
1469
1470
1471
1472
1473
1474
1475
1476
1477
1478
1479
1480
1481
1482
1483
1484
1485
1486
1487
1488
1489
1490
1491
1492
1493
1494
1495
1496
1497
1498
1499
1500
1501
1502
1503
1504
1505
1506
1507
1508
1509
1510
1511
1512
1513
1514
1515
1516
1517
1518
1519
1520
1521
1522
1523
1524
1525
1526
1527
1528
1529
1530
1531
1532
1533
1534
1535
1536
1537
1538
1539
1540
1541
1542
1543
1544
1545
1546
1547
1548
1549
1550
1551
1552
1553
1554
1555
1556
1557
1558
1559
1560
1561
1562
1563
1564
1565
1566
1567
1568
1569
1570
1571
1572
1573
1574
1575
1576
1577
1578
1579
1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
1585
1586
1587
1588
1589
1590
1591
1592
1593
1594
1595
1596
1597
1598
1599
1600
1601
1602
1603
1604
1605
1606
1607
1608
1609
1610
1611
1612
1613
1614
1615
1616
1617
1618
1619
1620
1621
1622
1623
1624
1625
1626
1627
1628
1629
1630
1631
1632
1633
1634
1635
1636
1637
1638
1639
1640
1641
1642
1643
1644
1645
1646
1647
1648
1649
1650
1651
1652
1653
1654
1655
1656
1657
1658
1659
1660
1661
1662
1663
1664
1665
1666
1667
1668
1669
1670
1671
1672
1673
1674
1675
1676
1677
1678
1679
1680
1681
1682
1683
1684
1685
1686
1687
1688
1689
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696
1697
1698
1699
1700
1701
1702
1703
1704
1705
1706
1707
1708
1709
1710
1711
1712
1713
1714
1715
1716
1717
1718
1719
1720
1721
1722
1723
1724
1725
1726
1727
1728
1729
1730
1731
1732
1733
1734
1735
1736
1737
1738
1739
1740
1741
1742
1743
1744
1745
1746
1747
1748
1749
1750
1751
1752
1753
1754
1755
1756
1757
1758
1759
1760
1761
1762
1763
1764
1765
1766
1767
1768
1769
1770
1771
1772
1773
1774
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789
1790
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
[
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "LOCAL AUGMENTATION FOR GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            99,
            826,
            145
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Anonymous authors Paper under double-blind review ",
        "bbox": [
            183,
            170,
            398,
            198
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "ABSTRACT ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            454,
            234,
            544,
            251
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Data augmentation has been widely used in image data and linguistic data but remains under-explored for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Existing methods focus on augmenting the graph data from a global perspective and largely fall into two genres: structural manipulation and adversarial training with feature noise injection. However, recent graph data augmentation methods ignore the importance of local information for the GNNs’ message passing mechanism. In this work, we introduce the local augmentation, which enhances the locality of node representations by their subgraph structures. Specifically, we model the data augmentation as a feature generation process. Given a node’s features, our local augmentation approach learns the conditional distribution of its neighbors’ features and generates more neighbors’ features to boost the performance of downstream tasks. Based on the local augmentation, we further design a novel framework: LA-GNN, which can apply to any GNN models in a plug-and-play manner. Extensive experiments and analyses show that local augmentation consistently yields performance improvement for various GNN architectures across a diverse set of benchmarks. ",
        "bbox": [
            233,
            265,
            766,
            486
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "1 INTRODUCTION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            511,
            336,
            526
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and their variants (Abu-El-Haija et al., 2019; Kipf & Welling, 2017; Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for many tasks on graphs such as ´ recommendation system (Ying et al., 2018) and traffic prediction (Guo et al., 2019). However, most of the GNN models, such as GCN (Kipf & Welling, 2017) and GAT (Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018), learn ´ the node representations by aggregating information over only the 2-hop neighborhood. Such shallow architectures limit their ability to extract information from higher-layer neighborhoods (Wang & Derr, 2021). But deep GNNs are prone to over-smoothing (Li et al., 2018), which suggests the node representations tend to converge to a certain vector and thus become indistinguishable. One solution to address this problem is to preserve the locality of node representations when increasing the number of layers. For example, JKNet (Xu et al., 2018) densely connects (Huang et al., 2017) each hidden layer to the final layer. GCNII (Chen et al., 2020) employs an initial residual to construct a skip connection from the input layer. Besides, Zeng et al. (2021) pointed out that the key for GNN is to smooth the local neighborhood into informative representation, no matter how deep it is. And they decouple the depth and scope of GNNs to help capture local graph structure. Prior works have emphasized the importance of local information, but one property of the graph is that the number of nodes in the local neighborhood is far fewer than higher-order neighbors. And this property limits the expressive power of GNNs due to the limited neighbors in the local structure. A very intuitive idea is to use data augmentation to increase the number of nodes in the local substructure. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            540,
            825,
            791
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "However, existing graph data augmentation methods ignore the importance of local information and only perturb at the topology-level and feature-level from a global perspective, which can be divided into two categories: topology-level augmentation (Rong et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020b; Zhao et al., 2021) and feature-level augmentation (Deng et al., 2019; Feng et al., 2019; Kong et al., 2020). Topology-level augmentation perturbs the adjacency matrix, yielding different graph structures. On the other hand, existing feature-level augmentation mainly exploits perturbation of node attributes guided by adversarial training (Deng et al., 2019; Feng et al., 2019; Kong et al., 2020). These augmentation techniques have two drawbacks. 1) Some of they employ full-batch training for augmentation, which is computationally expensive, and introduce some additional side effects such as over-smoothing. 2) The type of feature-level augmentation is coarse-grained, which focuses on global augmentation and overlooks the local information of the neighborhood. Moreover, to our best knowledge, none of the existing approaches combines both the feature representations and the graph topology, especially the local subgraph structures, for graph-level data augmentation. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            799,
            825,
            924
        ],
        "page_idx": 0
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            103,
            825,
            160
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this work, we propose a framework: Local Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks (LA-GNNs), to further enhance the locality of node representations based on both the topology-level and featurelevel information in the substructure. The term \"local augmentation\" refers to the generation of neighborhood features via a generative model conditioned on local structures and node features. Specifically, our proposed framework learns the conditional distribution of the connected neighbors’ representations given the representation of the central node, bearing some similarities with the Skipgram (Mikolov et al., 2013) and Deepwalk Perozzi et al. (2014), with the difference that our method does not base on word or graph embedding. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            166,
            826,
            279
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "The motivation behind this work concludes three-fold. 1) Existing feature-level augmentation works primarily pay attention to global augmentation without considering the informative neighborhood. 2) The distributions of the representations of the neighbors are closely connected to the central node, making ample room for feature augmentation. 3) Preserving the locality of node representations is key to avoiding over-smoothing $\\mathrm { { X u } }$ et al., 2018; Klicpera et al., 2019; Chen et al., 2020). And there are several benefits in applying local augmentation for the GNN training. First, local augmentation is essentially a data augmentation technique that can improve the generalization of the GNN models and prevent over-fitting. Second, we can recover some missing contextual information of the local neighborhood in an attributed graph via the generative model (Jia & Benson, 2020). Third, our proposed framework is flexible and can be applied to various popular backbone networks such as GCN (Kipf & Welling, 2017), GAT (Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018), GCNII (Chen et al., 2020), and ´ GRAND (Feng et al., 2020) to enhance their performance. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our proposed framework could improve the performance of GNN variants on 7 benchmark datasets. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            285,
            825,
            479
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "2 BACKGROUND ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            498,
            326,
            515
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Notations. Let $G = ( V , E )$ represent the graph, where $V$ is the set of vertices $\\{ v _ { 1 } , \\cdots , v _ { N } \\}$ with $| V | = N$ and $E$ is the set of edges. The adjacency matrix is defined as $\\mathbf { A } \\in \\{ 0 , 1 \\} ^ { N \\times N }$ , and nod $\\mathbf { A } _ { i j } = 1$ f and only if denote the d $( v _ { i } , v _ { j } ) \\in E$ . Let ee ma $\\mathcal { N } _ { i } \\overset { \\cdot } { = } \\{ v _ { j } \\vert  \\mathbf { A } _ { i j } = 1 \\}$ the neighborhood of. The feature matrix $v _ { i }$ $\\mathbf { D }$ $\\begin{array} { r } { \\dot { \\bf D } _ { i i } = \\dot { \\sum } _ { j = 1 } ^ { n } { \\bf A } _ { i j } } \\end{array}$ is denoted as $\\mathbf { X } \\in \\mathbb { R } ^ { N \\times F }$ where each node $v$ is associated with a $F$ -dimensional feature vector $\\mathbf { X } _ { v }$ . $\\mathbf { Y } \\in \\{ 0 , 1 \\} ^ { N \\times C }$ denote the one-hot label matrix, where $\\mathbf { Y } _ { i } \\in \\{ 0 , 1 \\} ^ { C }$ is a one-hot vector and $\\begin{array} { r } { \\sum _ { j = 1 } ^ { C } \\mathbf { Y } _ { i j } = 1 } \\end{array}$ for any $v _ { i } \\in V$ . ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            527,
            825,
            633
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "GNN. Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a type of neural network that directly operates on the graph structure, such as GCN and GAT (Kipf & Welling, 2017; Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018), that capture the ´ dependence of graphs via message passing between the nodes of a graph as ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            648,
            825,
            691
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/a0a846dead3255d0f75f83845cabc54956e351f1d16184644971b29cc873b6b0.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( \\ell ) } = f ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { H } ^ { ( \\ell - 1 ) } ) ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            421,
            693,
            573,
            712
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where $f$ denotes the specific GNN layer for different models, $\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( \\ell ) }$ are the hidden vectors of the $\\ell$ -th layer and $\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( 0 ) } = \\mathbf { X }$ . For example, $\\dot { f ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { H } ) } = \\sigma ( \\hat { \\mathbf { A } } \\mathbf { H } \\mathbf { W } )$ for GCN, where $\\hat { \\mathbf { A } } = \\tilde { \\mathbf { D } } ^ { - \\frac { 1 } { 2 } } \\tilde { \\mathbf { A } } \\tilde { \\mathbf { D } } ^ { - \\frac { 1 } { 2 } } ,$ $\\tilde { \\bf D }$ is the degree matrix of $\\tilde { \\mathbf { A } }$ , i.e., $\\begin{array} { r } { \\tilde { \\bf D } _ { i i } = \\sum _ { j } \\tilde { \\bf A } _ { i j } } \\end{array}$ , and $\\tilde { \\mathbf { A } } = \\mathbf { A } + \\mathbf { I }$ . ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            714,
            825,
            765
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Topology-level Augmentation. Topology-level augmentation usually perturbs $\\mathbf { A }$ to generate different graph structures, which can be formulated as $\\mathbf { A } ^ { \\prime } = \\mathcal { F } ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } )$ , where $\\mathcal F ( \\cdot )$ is a structure perturbation function. For example, DropEdge (Rong et al., 2020) considers $\\mathcal { F } ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } ) = \\mathbf { A } - \\mathbf { A _ { s } }$ which is independent of $\\mathbf { X }$ , where $\\mathbf { A _ { s } }$ is a sparse matrix consists of a subset of the original edges $E$ . GAUG-O (Zhao et al., 2021) leverages their proposed neural edge predictors to produce a different structure $\\mathbf { A } ^ { \\prime }$ where $\\begin{array} { r } { \\mathbf { A } _ { i j } ^ { \\prime } = \\left\\lfloor \\frac { 1 } { 1 + e ^ { - \\left( \\log \\mathbf { P } _ { i j } + G \\right) / \\tau } } + \\frac { 1 } { 2 } \\right\\rfloor } \\end{array}$ , $\\mathbf { P } _ { i j } = \\alpha \\mathbf { M } _ { i j } + ( 1 - \\alpha ) \\mathbf { A } _ { i j }$ , $\\mathbf { M } = { \\boldsymbol { \\sigma } } \\left( \\mathbf { Z } \\mathbf { Z } ^ { T } \\right)$ , $\\mathbf { Z } = f \\left( \\mathbf { A } , f ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } ) \\right)$ , $\\tau$ is the temperature of Gumbel-Softmax distribution, $G \\sim { \\mathrm { G u m b e l } } ( 0 , 1 )$ is a Gumbel random variate, and $\\alpha$ is a hyperparameter mediating the influence of edge predictor on the original graph. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            777,
            826,
            915
        ],
        "page_idx": 1
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Feature-level Augmentation. ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            173,
            104,
            408,
            118
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Besides, feature-level augmentation function can be defines as $\\mathbf { X } ^ { \\prime } \\ = \\ \\mathcal { H } ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } )$ , where $\\mathcal { H } ( \\cdot )$ is a feature perturbation function. FLAG (Kong et al., 2020) defines the perturbation function as $\\begin{array} { r } { \\mathcal { H } ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } ) = \\textbf { X } + \\boldsymbol { \\delta } } \\end{array}$ where ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            119,
            408,
            214
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "table",
        "img_path": "images/5d6da21b94eb34cdd0c21f3825cbb171febdf0012edef9ac16f22ab5a0c47b02.jpg",
        "table_caption": [
            "Table 1: Comparison of existing graph data augmentation. "
        ],
        "table_footnote": [],
        "table_body": "<table><tr><td colspan=\"4\">GraphData Augmentation</td></tr><tr><td>Method</td><td>ConsideredPart</td><td>Type</td><td>Perturbed Part</td></tr><tr><td>DropEdge</td><td>A</td><td>Sampling</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td>GAUG-O</td><td>A&amp;X</td><td>Reconstruction</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>FLAG</td><td>X</td><td>Noise Injection</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>G-GCN</td><td>A&amp;X</td><td>Reconstruction</td><td>AXX</td></tr><tr><td>Local Augmentation</td><td>A&amp;X</td><td>Generation</td><td>X</td></tr></table>",
        "bbox": [
            424,
            122,
            816,
            198
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "perturbation $\\pmb { \\delta }$ is updated iteratively during the adversarial training phase. G-GCN (plain) (Zhu et al., 2020) obtains the global attribute feature matrix $\\mathbf { X } ^ { ( a ) } \\in \\bar { \\mathbb { R } ^ { N \\times d _ { a } } }$ through minimizing the objective Qv∈V Qa∈CA(v) v a Pk∈U exp\u0010X(a)v ·Vk\u0011 where $U$ is the set of all attributes, $C A ( v )$ is the sampled context attributes of $v$ , and $\\mathbf { V } \\in \\mathbb { R } ^ { d _ { a } \\times F }$ denotes the parameters. Obviously, the perturbation function of G-GCN has no close-form solution. In this work, we propose a novel feature-level augmentation method, named local augmentation. And the comparison of the details of various graph data augmentation techniques can be found in Table 1. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            214,
            825,
            332
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "3 LOCAL AUGMENTATION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            356,
            406,
            371
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this section, we describe details of the proposed method. The local augmentation framework consists of three modules: learning the conditional distribution via a generative model, the active learning trick, and the downstream GNN models, as illustrated in Figure 1. Note that the proposed algorithm enhances the locality of node representations through augmenting 1-hop neighbors in a generative way. Specifically, we exploit a generative model to learn the conditional distribution of the connected neighbors’ representations given the representation of a node. We describe the details of learning the conditional distribution and the motivation for why local augmentation is able to improve the performance in a probabilistic view in Sec. 3.1, detail the architecture of downstream GNN models in Sec. 3.2. We finally elaborate the training procedure of both the generative model and the downstream GNN models with the active learning trick in Sec. 3.3. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            388,
            826,
            529
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "image",
        "img_path": "images/a25e0a452d09cb122f2cc05b960b1e984bdab4b6769823194b1ac823b6b03d23.jpg",
        "image_caption": [
            "Figure 1: A schematic depiction of our local augmentation. The purple and yellow circles on the graph correspond to the central node and its augmented neighbors respectively. After augmenting the neighborhood, we exploit the initial and the generated feature matrix as input for downstream GNNs. "
        ],
        "image_footnote": [],
        "bbox": [
            181,
            546,
            812,
            696
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "3.1 LEARNING THE CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            768,
            535,
            784
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "We start by reviewing the semi-supervised learning of GNNs in a probabilistic view. Most existing GNN models (Kipf & Welling, 2017; Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018) are viewed as a classification function ´ to predict the class labels of the graph nodes. In this work, we use a GNN classification estimator $P _ { \\theta } ( \\mathbf { Y } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } )$ $\\theta$ is the parameter) to model the conditional distribution of label $\\mathbf { Y }$ with respect to the graph structure A and feature matrix X. Given training samples $\\{ \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\mathbf { Y } \\}$ , the parameter $\\theta$ can be estimated using Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), by optimizing the following likelihood function: ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            796,
            825,
            893
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/86a941f44b7532046443800c354539300c31a30f35ec36c9839d937e4f3f402b.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\operatorname* { m a x } \\prod _ { k \\in \\mathbf { K } } P _ { \\theta } \\left( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } \\right) ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            413,
            893,
            583,
            928
        ],
        "page_idx": 2
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where $\\mathbf { K }$ is the set of node indices of the training dataset whose labels are visible during the semi-supervised training. To further boost the performance of GNN, we introduce a new model $P _ { \\theta } ( { \\bf Y } , \\overline { { { \\bf X } } } | { \\bf A } , { \\bf X } )$ , where $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ is generated features by feature-level augmentation. For this model, the MLE method needs to optimize a marginalized probability $P _ { \\theta }$ over the generated feature matrix $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ : ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            102,
            825,
            162
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/0b5072d13dff98ceb3f376b6d3e0034b60f5da232a7265602f7ff6924a32a9a8.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\operatorname* { m a x } \\prod _ { k \\in \\mathbf { K } } \\int _ { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } P _ { \\theta } \\left( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } , \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } \\right) .\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            390,
            170,
            609,
            208
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "For Bayesian tractability, we decompose $P _ { \\theta }$ in Eq.(3) as a product of two posterior probabilities: ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            213,
            805,
            229
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/3969838a7b935379ff9a61fd7d4acd02bfdf7dbee1d678d807fb38029ca9429a.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\begin{array} { r } { P _ { \\theta , \\phi } ( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } , \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } ) : = P _ { \\theta } ( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } ) Q _ { \\phi } ( \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } ) , } \\end{array}\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            316,
            236,
            679,
            255
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where $P _ { \\theta } ( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\mathbf { \\overline { { X } } } )$ and $Q _ { \\phi } ( { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } )$ denote the probabilistic distributions approximated by the downstream GNN and the (feature-level augmentation) generator respectively, parameterized by $\\theta$ and $\\phi$ . There are two benefits in the decomposition above. First, it allows us to decouple the training of the downstream predictor $P _ { \\theta }$ and the generator $Q _ { \\phi }$ , enabling the generator to easily generalize to other downstream tasks. Moreover, inspired by the successes of data augmentation via deep-learning-based generative modeling (Antoniou et al., 2017), the representation power of Eq.(4) is superior than that of a single predictor $P _ { \\theta } \\left( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } \\right)$ without data augmentation. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            262,
            825,
            363
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Consequently, once a generator $Q _ { \\phi }$ is trained very well, our training procedure can optimize $P _ { \\theta } ( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\mathbf { \\overline { { X } } } )$ with samples $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ drawn from the fixed conditional distribution $Q _ { \\phi }$ . Now, we show how to train the generator as follows. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            367,
            825,
            412
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Generator To learn a feature augmentation generator, a naive solution is to learn one single distribution for all the neighbors using the MLE method, i.e., solving the following optimization problem ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            428,
            823,
            469
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/c8cd49cda13ba563e1e64405644de1a1918d032610b692a84d3bf50a442af942.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\operatorname* { m a x } _ { \\psi } \\sum _ { j \\in \\mathcal { N } _ { i } } \\log p _ { \\psi } \\left( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\right) = \\operatorname* { m a x } _ { \\psi } \\log \\prod _ { j \\in \\mathcal { N } _ { i } } p _ { \\psi } \\left( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\right) ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            313,
            468,
            684,
            503
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where $\\{ \\mathbf { X } _ { j \\mid j \\in \\mathcal { N } _ { i } } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\}$ . Then $p _ { \\psi }$ can be used to augment features for all the neighbors. However, this method ignores the differences between all the neighbors, which may induce severe noise. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            507,
            823,
            536
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "To overcome the limitation, we assume that each neighbor satisfies a different conditional distribution. Specifically, there exists a conditional distribution $p ( \\cdot | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } _ { j } )$ with latent random variable $\\mathbf { z } _ { j }$ , such that we have $\\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\sim p ( \\mathbf { X } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } _ { j } )$ for $\\mathbf { X } _ { j \\mid j \\in \\mathcal { N } _ { i } }$ . Once we obtain $p ( \\cdot | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } _ { j } )$ in some way, we can generate augmented features $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ , and then we can train $P _ { \\theta } ( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\mathbf { \\overline { { X } } } )$ instead of $P _ { \\theta } ( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } )$ to improve the final performance of $P _ { \\theta }$ . Below, we will present how to find $p ( \\cdot | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } _ { j } )$ , which will produce the generator $Q _ { \\phi }$ . ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            541,
            826,
            631
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "To achieve our purpose, a suitable method is the conditional variational auto-encoder (CVAE) (Kingma & Welling, 2013; Sohn et al., 2015), which can help learn the distribution of the latent variable $\\mathbf { z } _ { j }$ , and the conditional distribution $p ( \\cdot | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } _ { j } )$ . So, a CVAE model $Q _ { \\phi } \\left( \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } \\right)$ is adopted as our generator, where $\\phi = \\{ \\varphi , \\psi \\}$ , $\\varphi$ denotes the variational parameters and $\\psi$ represents the generative parameters. To derive the optimization problem for CVAE, $\\log p _ { \\psi } \\left( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\right)$ can be written with latent variables $\\mathbf { z }$ as follows, following previous work (Pandey & Dukkipati, 2017; Sohn et al., 2015): ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            636,
            826,
            724
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/04a19d0377699e430b4f1574cb88bab3737e06b72fd8ffdc284a657b70d4f26f.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\begin{array} { l } { \\log p _ { \\psi } ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) = \\displaystyle \\int q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\psi } ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) } { q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) } \\mathrm { d } \\mathbf { z } + K L ( q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) \\| p _ { \\psi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) ) } \\\\ { \\displaystyle \\qquad \\geq \\int q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\psi } ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) } { q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) } \\mathrm { d } \\mathbf { z } , } \\end{array}\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            186,
            731,
            810,
            803
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "and the evidence lower bound (ELBO) can be written as: ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            806,
            547,
            821
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/0a1fac39e36905a3a4546a8f12f4e8cd9c64dd90538a0a88ad47d0994d897420.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\mathcal { L } ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ; \\psi , \\varphi ) = - K L ( q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) | | p _ { \\psi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) ) + \\int q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) \\log p _ { \\psi } ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } ) \\mathrm { d } \\mathbf { z } ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            181,
            827,
            795,
            859
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where the encoder $q _ { \\varphi } ( \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) \\ = \\ { \\mathcal { N } } ( f ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) , g ( \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , \\mathbf { X } _ { i } ) )$ and decoder $p _ { \\psi } ( { \\bf X } _ { j } | { \\bf X } _ { i } , { \\bf z } ) =$ $\\mathcal { N } ( h ( \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , \\mathbf { z } ) , c I )$ . The encoder is a two-layer MLP. $f$ and $g$ share the first layer, and their second layers employ different parameters. The decoder $h$ is two-layer MLP. For simplicity and tractability, the implemented generator $Q \\left( \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } \\right)$ uses the same parameters across all nodes $v _ { i } \\in V$ . ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            864,
            825,
            925
        ],
        "page_idx": 3
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Optimization of the MLE Now, we present how to optimize the MLE Eq.(4) using the feature matrix produced from the generator. Once the augmented feature matrix can be sampled from the generator, we can optimize the parameters of Eq.(4) in the following way. Firstly, the parameter $\\bar { \\phi } = \\{ \\psi , \\varphi \\}$ can be optimized by maximizing the ELBO of the generator (6), i.e., we train the generator. Secondly, the parameter $\\theta$ is optimized by maximizing the MLE Eq.(4) with $\\phi$ fixed, which is the conditional distribution of ${ \\bf Y } _ { k }$ given A, $\\mathbf { X }$ , and $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ , i.e., we train the downstream GNN model. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            102,
            826,
            190
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this paper, the MLE is formulated by a downstream GNN model as follows: ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            194,
            689,
            210
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/57f3086c808bc412791db206faf439c5e0fdcda03f805a35f6a8dd476808ecd3.jpg",
        "text": "$$\nP _ { \\theta } \\left( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } \\mid \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } \\right) \\propto - { \\overline { { \\mathcal { L } } } } ( \\theta | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } , \\phi ) ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            357,
            217,
            638,
            238
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/4b4f7de55c1633f1e64d504d7c14ecb1f9d93ef379b8dba8051c2b7e0be66189.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\begin{array} { r } { \\overline { { \\mathcal { L } } } ( \\theta | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } , \\phi ) = - \\sum _ { k \\in \\mathbf { T } } \\sum _ { f = 1 } ^ { C } \\mathbf { Y } _ { k f } \\ln \\Big ( \\mathrm { s o f t m a x } \\big ( \\mathrm { G N N } ( \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } , \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } ) \\big ) _ { k f } \\Big ) . } \\end{array}\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            217,
            244,
            728,
            272
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "3.2 THE ARCHITECTURE OF LA-GNN ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            287,
            452,
            303
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "We discuss the details of downstream GNN models. And we use GCN, GAT, GCNII, and GRAND as the backbones and test them on semi-supervised node classification tasks. We name the modified GNN architecture as LA-GNN, where LA means local augmentation. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            314,
            823,
            357
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "LA-GCN A 2-layer LA-GCN is defined as follows: ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            372,
            526,
            388
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/f239d746dfe55f2b758980f17e6d4d65f2e06aec6bfd878c3b066cd22f9bd920.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( 2 ) } = \\sigma \\left( \\hat { \\mathbf { A } } \\left( \\sigma \\left( \\hat { \\mathbf { A } } \\mathbf { X } \\mathbf { W } _ { 1 } ^ { ( 1 ) } \\right) \\bigg | \\bigg | \\sigma \\left( \\hat { \\mathbf { A } } \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } _ { 1 } \\mathbf { W } _ { 2 } ^ { ( 1 ) } \\right) \\bigg | \\bigg | \\cdots \\bigg | \\bigg | \\sigma \\left( \\hat { \\mathbf { A } } \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } _ { n } \\mathbf { W } _ { n + 1 } ^ { ( 1 ) } \\right) \\right) \\mathbf { W } ^ { ( 2 ) } \\right) ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            220,
            395,
            776,
            431
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } _ { i }$ $\\bar { \\mathsf { \\bar { c } } } _ { i } ( i = 1 , 2 , \\cdots , n )$ is the augmented feature matrix produced by the generator, $\\parallel$ denotes an operator of column-wise concatenation, $\\mathbf { W } _ { i } ^ { ( 1 ) } \\left( i = 1 , 2 , \\cdots , n \\right)$ denotes the parameters of the first LA-GCN layer, and $\\mathbf { W } ^ { ( 2 ) }$ denotes the parameters of the second LA-GCN layer. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            440,
            825,
            489
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "LA-GCNII Since GCNII (Chen et al., 2020) applies a fully-connected neural network on $\\mathbf { X }$ to obtain a lower-dimensional initial representation $\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( 0 ) }$ before the forward propagation, we apply a fully-connected neural network on $\\mathbf { X }$ and $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ to obtain $\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( 0 ) }$ for LA-GCNII as follows: ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            505,
            825,
            551
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/05fa145f5cff98d6991c19b9092629fc2b252f77d6342710b829821bf26747c2.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( 0 ) } = \\sigma ( \\mathbf { X } \\mathbf { W } _ { 1 } ^ { ( 0 ) } ) \\| \\sigma ( \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } _ { 1 } \\mathbf { W } _ { 2 } ^ { ( 0 ) } ) \\| \\cdots \\| \\sigma ( \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } _ { n } \\mathbf { W } _ { n + 1 } ^ { ( 0 ) } ) .\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            300,
            558,
            697,
            585
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "$\\mathbf { H } ^ { ( 0 ) }$ is fed into the next forward propagation layer. Besides, we do not modify the architecture of GAT and GRAND, and just add our generated feature matrix to the input. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            594,
            823,
            625
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "3.3 ACTIVE LEARNING ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            642,
            349,
            656
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this section, we introduce a trick for the overall training framework. After the training of the generator finishes, it contains an issue of using $Q _ { \\phi } ( { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } | \\mathbf { A } , \\mathbf { X } )$ of Eq.(4) for inference because $Q$ may generate some samples from the side part of the distribution. This critical question makes the inferences inefficient. Inspired by Nielsen & Okoniewski (2019), we introduce active learning to capture the suitable generated feature matrix and the corresponding generator, which improves the inference efficiency and helps the optimization of the MLE. During active learning, the probability of each feature is proportional to its uncertainty evaluated by an acquisition function. We adopt the Bayesian Active Learning by Disagreement (BALD) acquisition function (Houlsby et al., 2011) to sample the most important inferences with the approximation from the Monte Carlo (MC) dropout samples as ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            667,
            826,
            810
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/044f1a58776aef8f5591f62fd4befd55bb068565b2de2e9bd55b68ba18b06999.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n{ \\cal U } ( \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } ) \\approx H \\left[ \\frac { 1 } { N } \\sum _ { n = 1 } ^ { N } P \\left( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } , \\omega _ { n } \\right) \\right] - \\frac { 1 } { N } \\sum _ { n = 1 } ^ { N } H \\left[ P \\left( \\mathbf { Y } _ { k } | \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } , \\omega _ { n } \\right) \\right] ,\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            269,
            816,
            725,
            861
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "where $N$ is the number of MC samples and $\\omega _ { n }$ are the parameters of the network sampled for the $n$ -th MC dropout sample. A high BLAD score indicates a network with high uncertainty about the generated feature matrix. So it tends to be selected to improve the GNN model. Finally, the overall algorithm framework is summarized in Algorithm 1, which shows the optimization of Eq.(4). ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            867,
            825,
            924
        ],
        "page_idx": 4
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Algorithm 1 The framework to train the Generator $Q _ { \\phi }$ and the downstream GNN $P _ { \\theta }$ using the initial feature matrix $\\mathbf { X }$ and the generated feature matrix $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ selected by the acquisition function ",
        "bbox": [
            169,
            102,
            825,
            135
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "1: Initialize $U { = }$ -inf, $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ , $Q _ { \\phi }$ , $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } ^ { \\prime }$ , and $Q _ { \\phi } ^ { \\prime }$   \n2: for $i = 1$ to the number of generator iterations do   \n3: Train the generator $Q _ { \\phi }$ using $\\mathbf { A }$ and $\\mathbf { X }$   \n4: Generate feature matrix $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ using $Q _ { \\phi }$   \n5: Compute $U ( { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } )$ using Eq.(10).   \n6: if $U ( { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } ) > U$ then   \n7: $U = U ( { \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } } )$   \n8: if $i > N _ { w a r m u p }$ then   \n9: Train GNN $P _ { \\theta }$ using $\\mathbf { A }$ and $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ for the number of continued GNN training iterations   \n10: X 0 = X , Q 0φ = Q φ   \n11: $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } = \\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } } ^ { \\prime }$ , $Q _ { \\phi } = Q _ { \\phi } ^ { \\prime }$   \n12: Train the downstream GNN $P _ { \\theta }$ with the generated feature matrix $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ , and generator $Q _ { \\phi }$ ",
        "bbox": [
            178,
            150,
            781,
            324
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "4 DISCUSSION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            349,
            312,
            366
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this section, we discuss the motivation of this work and provide some analysis. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            380,
            705,
            395
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Connection to EP-B and GraphSAGE We discuss how our proposed model distinguishes from the classical representation learning models on graphs. Previous methods such as EP-B (GarcíaDurán & Niepert, 2017) and GraphSAGE (Hamilton et al., 2017) rely on reconstruction loss function between the central node and its neighbors’ embeddings. EP-B aims to minimize the reconstruction error by optimizing the objective $\\begin{array} { r } { \\operatorname* { m i n } { \\sum _ { u \\in V \\backslash \\{ v \\} } } \\left[ \\gamma + d ( \\widetilde { \\mathbf { X } } _ { v } , \\mathbf { X } _ { v } ) - d ( \\widetilde { \\mathbf { X } } _ { v } , \\mathbf { X } _ { u } ) \\right] } \\end{array}$ where $\\mathbf { X } _ { v }$ represents the target node; $\\mathbf { X } _ { u }$ denotes the neighbor nodes; $\\widetilde { \\mathbf { X } } _ { v } = \\mathrm { A G G } ( \\mathbf { X } _ { l } | l \\in \\mathcal { N } ( v ) )$ indicates the reconstruction from neighbors; and $\\gamma$ refers to the bias. Besides, GraphSAGE exploits the negative sampling to differentiate the representations of remote node-pairs. GraphSAGE enforce nearby nodes to have similar representations and to enforce disparate nodes to be distinct by minimizing the objective $\\operatorname* { m i n } - E _ { u \\sim \\mathcal { N } ( v ) } \\overset { \\cdot } { \\log } \\left( \\left( \\sigma ( \\mathbf { X } _ { u } ^ { T } \\mathbf { X } _ { v } ) \\right) \\right) - \\lambda E _ { v _ { n } \\sim P _ { n } ( v ) } \\log \\left( \\left( \\sigma ( - \\mathbf { X } _ { v _ { n } } ^ { T } \\mathbf { X } _ { v } ) \\right) \\right)$ where $\\mathbf { X } _ { v }$ denotes target node; $\\mathbf { X } _ { u }$ represents the neighbor node; ${ \\bf X } _ { v _ { n } }$ is disparate node; and $P _ { n } ( v )$ is the negative sampling. These approaches build upon the assumption that adjacent nodes share similar attributes. In contrast, our model does not rely on such assumption and instead generates the neighboring node features from the conditional distribution of central node representations. Given the target node, $\\mathbf { X } _ { v }$ , our aim is to learn the conditional distribution of the neighbor nodes, $\\mathbf { X } _ { u }$ . A comparison between the reconstruction-based representation learning on graphs and our proposed framework is illustrated in Figure 2. And our local augmentation method is the third paradigm to exploit neighbors in a generative way. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            409,
            826,
            674
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "image",
        "img_path": "images/02db34de261ebadeed56e54daa7a15cd3eaa86f7795ea776ca63ea498b28e4a9.jpg",
        "image_caption": [
            "Figure 2: (a) The original graph. (b) EP-B exploits the neighbors to reconstruct the central node’s embedding. (c) GraphSAGE encourages nearby nodes to have similar embeddings. (d) Given the representation of the central node, our aim is to infer the representations of the connected distribution of neighbors. "
        ],
        "image_footnote": [],
        "bbox": [
            199,
            694,
            794,
            787
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Local Augmentation vs. General Augmentation General image augmentation algorithms include geometric transformations, feature space augmentation, adversarial training, and generative adversarial networks (Shorten & Khoshgoftaar, 2019). It is impossible to apply geometric transformations directly to graph data augmentation since graphs are sensitive to node permutation. General adversarial training, feature space augmentation, and generative adversarial networks don’t take the graph structure into account. Graphs consist of a set of identities with certain pairs of these identities connected by edges. We need to consider node features and the graph structure when designing the graph data augmentation framework. Our proposed method of local augmentation fully considers these two points. By extracting the neighbors’ feature vectors, we have enough data points to learn the distribution. There are two benefits to designing local augmentation. First, by taking the sub-graph structure and feature representation associated with this sub-graph structure as input for the generative model, we can learn the information of the sub-graph structure. Second, the number of data points to learn the distribution depends on the node degree. This assures that we have enough data points compared with the general feature augmentation and we can learn a better distribution. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            867,
            825,
            924
        ],
        "page_idx": 5
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            103,
            825,
            242
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Complementing missing information Jia & Benson (2020) points out that some attribute information might be missing on a subset of vertices. By learning the distribution of node representations from the observed data, we can utilize the produced node representations from the generative model to complement the information missing in the nodes’ attributes, which boosts the robustness of downstream tasks. And we show that our model still works in the scenario that nodes lose a certain percentage of attributes. In other words, we can exploit the well-learned distribution to complement the contextual information of the local neighborhood to enhance the locality of the node representations. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            258,
            825,
            356
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "5 EXPERIMENTS ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            376,
            326,
            391
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this section, we evaluate the performance of our proposed model on semisupervised node classification tasks on a variety of public graph datasets and compare our model with the state-of-the-art graph neural networks. We also carry out additional experiments to showcase the necessity of our design and its robustness to missing information. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            407,
            452,
            531
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "table",
        "img_path": "images/f9eb386ca814a6d8ef0669f5563fa2f445b3f29b93219e79bf46814890f79cf4.jpg",
        "table_caption": [
            "Table 2: Classification results on fixed split $( \\% )$ "
        ],
        "table_footnote": [],
        "table_body": "<table><tr><td>Method</td><td>Cora</td><td>Citeseer</td><td>Pubmed</td></tr><tr><td>Chebyshev (Defferrard et al.,2016)</td><td>81.2</td><td>69.8</td><td>74.4</td></tr><tr><td>APPNP (Klicpera et al.,2019)</td><td>83.8</td><td>71.6</td><td>79.7</td></tr><tr><td>MixHop (Abu-El-Haija et al.,2019)</td><td>81.9</td><td>71.4</td><td>80.8</td></tr><tr><td>Graph U-net (Gao&amp; Ji,2019)</td><td>84.4</td><td>73.2</td><td>79.6</td></tr><tr><td>GSNN-M (Wang et al.,2020a)</td><td>83.9</td><td>72.2</td><td>79.1</td></tr><tr><td>S²GC (Zhu &amp; Koniusz,2021)</td><td>83.5</td><td>73.6</td><td>80.2</td></tr><tr><td>GCN (Kipf &amp; Welling,2017)</td><td>81.6</td><td>70.3</td><td>78.9</td></tr><tr><td>G-GCN (Zhu et al.,2020)</td><td>83.7</td><td>71.3</td><td>80.9</td></tr><tr><td>DropEdge-GCN (Rong et al.,2020)</td><td>82.8</td><td>72.3</td><td>79.6</td></tr><tr><td>GAUG-O-GCN (Zhao et al.,2021)</td><td>83.6</td><td>73.3</td><td>79.3</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GCN</td><td>84.1</td><td>72.5</td><td>81.3</td></tr><tr><td>GAT (Velickovic et al., 2018)</td><td>83.0</td><td>70.4</td><td>0OM</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GAT</td><td>83.9</td><td>72.3</td><td>OOM</td></tr><tr><td>GCNII (Chen et al.,2020) LA-GCNII</td><td>85.2</td><td>73.1</td><td>80.0</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>85.2</td><td>73.7</td><td>81.6</td></tr><tr><td>GRAND (Feng et al.,2020)</td><td>85.4</td><td>75.4</td><td>82.7</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GRAND</td><td>85.8</td><td>75.8</td><td>83.3</td></tr></table>",
        "bbox": [
            467,
            428,
            820,
            652
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "5.1 DATASETS ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            549,
            285,
            563
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "We utilize seven public graph datasets (Cora, Citeseer, Pubmed, Squirrel, Actor, Chameleon, and Cornell) for semisupervised node classification tasks. The details of these datasets can be found in the appendix. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            575,
            452,
            659
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "5.2 SEMI-SUPERVISED NODE CLASSIFICATION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            676,
            509,
            690
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Baselines and Experimental Setup. We apply the standard fixed splits (Yang et al., 2016) on three datasets Cora, Citeseer, and Pubmed, with 20 nodes per class for training, 500 nodes for validation, and 1,000 nodes for testing. And we consider four backbones: GCN (Kipf & Welling, 2017), GAT (Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018), GCNII (Chen ´ et al., 2020), and GRAND (Feng et al., 2020) to evaluate our proposed framework and compare our model against state-of-the-art models including 1) backbone models: Chebyshev (Defferrard et al., 2016), GCN, GAT, ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            703,
            472,
            881
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "table",
        "img_path": "images/ea2bb2f57aceba67f29a39ce747fe9a7e2b3c9347d35c5041e73a0d4b8bc0e35.jpg",
        "table_caption": [
            "Table 3: Classification results on random split $( \\% )$ "
        ],
        "table_footnote": [
            "APPNP (Klicpera et al., 2019), Graph U-net (Gao & Ji, 2019), MixHop (Abu-El-Haija et al., 2019), GCNII, GSNN-M (Wang et al., 2020a), $\\mathrm { { \\cal S } ^ { 2 } { \\cal G } { \\cal C } }$ (Zhu & Koniusz, 2021), and GRAND and 2) featurelevel and topology-level augmentation models: G-GNNs (Zhu et al., 2020), DropEdge (Rong et al., "
        ],
        "table_body": "<table><tr><td>Method</td><td>Squirrel</td><td>Actor</td><td>Chameleon</td><td>Cornell</td></tr><tr><td>APPNP</td><td>21.6</td><td>32.1</td><td>33.0</td><td>58.7</td></tr><tr><td>S²GC</td><td>21.3</td><td>27.8</td><td>30.2</td><td>57.2</td></tr><tr><td>GCN</td><td>22.5</td><td>26.2</td><td>25.1</td><td>55.7</td></tr><tr><td>DropEdge-GCN</td><td>21.9</td><td>26.5</td><td>25.0</td><td>53.6</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GCN</td><td>23.2</td><td>27.0</td><td>28.9</td><td>56.1</td></tr><tr><td>GAT</td><td>24.2</td><td>27.2</td><td>34.8</td><td>55.8</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GAT</td><td>28.2</td><td>27.4</td><td>38.6</td><td>56.5</td></tr><tr><td>GCNII</td><td>25.3</td><td>31.9</td><td>30.2</td><td>57.3</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GCNII</td><td>28.6</td><td>32.7</td><td>32.5</td><td>56.6</td></tr></table>",
        "bbox": [
            485,
            722,
            821,
            859
        ],
        "page_idx": 6
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "2020) and GAUG-O (Zhao et al., 2021). For four datasets Squirrel, Actor, Chameleon, and Cornell, we take 10 random splits (Shchur et al., 2018) where $10 \\%$ , $30 \\%$ , and $60 \\%$ of the date for training, validation, testing; measure the performance of GCN, GAT, GCNII, and corresponding modified models. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            103,
            826,
            159
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Results For three datasets Cora, Citeseer, and Pubmed, we report the mean classification accuracy on the test nodes of all our models after 100 runs and report the values after running the experiments of their models with our server under their setting hyperparameters in their original papers. The results of the evaluation experiments are summarized in Tables 2, 3, and in the appendix, which demonstrate that the backbone models equipped with our method achieve the best performance across all the datasets except the Cornell dataset. More specifically, we can improve upon GCN by a margin of $2 . 5 \\%$ , $2 . 2 \\%$ , and $2 . 4 \\%$ on Cora, Citeseer, and Pubmed respectively. Moreover, LA-GNN outperforms other backbone models including GAT and GCNII as well as data augmentation models (Zhu et al., 2020; Rong et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2021) on these citation network datasets. Besids, we also provide the analysis of the distribution of our generated feature matrix. And Figure 3 shows the distribution of the attributes of the original ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            178,
            485,
            482
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "and inference neighbors, which can demonstrate our inference feature matrix follow the distribution of the initial feature matrix. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            483,
            821,
            510
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "image",
        "img_path": "images/410d67587b543d15cc65cba5cdc78b6ecc62b88dfffe4c1dfb7018aab80db729.jpg",
        "image_caption": [
            "Figure 3: The distribution of the attribute bin of the inference neighbors vs. the distribution of the attribute bin of the original neighbors, with KL divergence $= 0 . 0 0 2 6$ . The value of each feature bin is the sum of the attribute values of multiple dimensions of the feature vector. We split the feature vector into multiple feature bins. "
        ],
        "image_footnote": [],
        "bbox": [
            504,
            181,
            808,
            364
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "5.3 ABLATION STUDY ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            174,
            530,
            339,
            545
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this section, to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed generative framework, we conduct experiments that compare LA-GNN to several of its ablated variants without generative modeling. The results are shown in Table 4. ${ } \" \\mathrm { G C N } +$ width\" only increases the first network layer width for GCN and GCNII to match LAGNN without giving generated samples as input. $\" +$ concatenation\" only replaces the generated feature matrix of LA-GNN with the original feature matrix of the central node. $\" +$ plain neighborhood\" replaces the generated feature matrix of LA-GNN with a neighborhood feature matrix where each row corresponds to the feature vector of the randomly sampled neighbor. The ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            558,
            485,
            765
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "table",
        "img_path": "images/1e622fbcf762f746fb35f524d6f052f3f1fd7930c093ae304997e6254e7022a0.jpg",
        "table_caption": [
            "Table 4: Effects of different components of our framework evaluated on the standard split of the Cora, Citeseer and Pubmed dataset. "
        ],
        "table_footnote": [],
        "table_body": "<table><tr><td>Method</td><td>Cora</td><td>Citeseer</td><td>Pubmed</td></tr><tr><td>GCN</td><td>81.6</td><td>70.3</td><td>78.9</td></tr><tr><td>GCNII</td><td>85.2</td><td>73.1</td><td>80.0</td></tr><tr><td>GCN + width</td><td>82.0</td><td>71.4</td><td>79.5</td></tr><tr><td>GCN + concatenation</td><td>81.8</td><td>71.6</td><td>78.8</td></tr><tr><td>GCN + plain neighborhood</td><td>80.9</td><td>68.8</td><td>75.0</td></tr><tr><td>GCNII + width</td><td>85.1</td><td>73.1</td><td>80.2</td></tr><tr><td>GCNII + concatenation</td><td>85.2</td><td>73.3</td><td>80.2</td></tr><tr><td>GCNII + plain neighborhood</td><td>83.3</td><td>71.9</td><td>78.1</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GCN</td><td>84.1</td><td>72.5</td><td>81.3</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GCNII</td><td>85.2</td><td>73.7</td><td>81.6</td></tr></table>",
        "bbox": [
            500,
            604,
            820,
            752
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "results show that the first two variants provide no notable improvement for the backbone models, and the third variant even results in degradation. By eliminating the possibility that these confounding factors irrelevant to our core approach may contribute to the final performance, it’s evident that the performance gain in Table 2 and 3 are due to our proposed generative local augmentation framework. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            765,
            825,
            820
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "5.4 ROBUSTNESS TO MISSING INFORMATION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            840,
            500,
            854
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "In this section, we conduct experiments to verify that our proposed framework can robustify downstream tasks against missing information in the feature attributes. Specifically, we mask a certain percentage of the attributes of each feature vector and use the same pipeline to do augmentation for the masked feature matrix. As shown in Table 5, we can see that as the mask ratio increases, the gap of the performance between the GCN and LA-GCN enlarges in most cases in Cora and Citeseer, which corroborates our insight discussed in Section 4. Since there exists large redundancy in the features of the Pubmed dataset, the performance of GCN and LA-GCN decreases little as the mask ratio increases and the gap of the performance does not enlarge. To conclude, our model can complement the contextual information of the local neighborhood to enhance the locality of the node representations. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            867,
            825,
            922
        ],
        "page_idx": 7
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            103,
            825,
            188
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "table",
        "img_path": "images/c260c3b41045601cf923d862867eee20614ad3ddba36580ac902a15d0586885c.jpg",
        "table_caption": [
            "Table 5: Summary of results on recovering study in terms of classification accuracy $( \\% )$ . $\\downarrow$ means a decrease compared with the accuracy if features are not masked. "
        ],
        "table_footnote": [],
        "table_body": "<table><tr><td>Dataset</td><td colspan=\"4\">Cora</td><td colspan=\"4\">Citeseer</td><td colspan=\"4\">Pubmed</td></tr><tr><td>Mask Ratio</td><td>0.1</td><td>0.2</td><td>0.4</td><td>0.8</td><td>0.1</td><td>0.2</td><td>0.4</td><td>0.8</td><td>0.1</td><td>0.2</td><td>0.4</td><td>0.8</td></tr><tr><td>GCN</td><td>81.0(↓0.6)</td><td>80.6(↓1.0)</td><td>80.1(↓1.5)</td><td>76.0 (↓5.6)</td><td>70.1(↓0.2)</td><td>69.3 (↓1.0)</td><td>67.2 (↓3.1)</td><td>61.0(↓9.3)</td><td>78.5(↓0.4)</td><td>78.5(↓0.4)</td><td>77.5 (↓1.4)</td><td>76.9 (↓2.0)</td></tr><tr><td>LA-GCN</td><td>83.5 (↓0.6)</td><td>83.1(↓1.0)</td><td>81.6(↓2.5)</td><td>81.1 (↓3.0)</td><td>72.2(↓0.3)</td><td>71.7 (↓0.8)</td><td>69.3 (↓3.2)</td><td>65.9 (↓6.6)</td><td>81.4(↓0.1)</td><td>80.9 (↓0.6)</td><td>80.5 (↓1.0)</td><td>79.4 (↓2.1)</td></tr></table>",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            250,
            825,
            296
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "6 RELATED WORK ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            327,
            344,
            343
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Graph Neural Networks In general, convolution in the graph domain involves non-spectral (spatial) and spectral approaches. Non-spectral methods generalize convolutions operating on spatially close neighbors to the graph domain, such as Duvenaud et al. (2015); Atwood & Towsley (2016); Niepert et al. (2016); Monti et al. (2017). Spectral approaches define the convolution operations based on the spectral formulation, such as Bruna et al. (2014); Defferrard et al. (2016); Kipf & Welling (2017). Recently, several methods (Abu-El-Haija et al., 2019; Liao et al., 2019) based on GCN have been proposed to obtain the higher-order filters. Besides, GAT (Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018), Graph ´ U-Nets (Gao & Ji, 2019) combine attention networks and pooling operation with GNN separately, which achieve state-of-the-art performance on node and link classification tasks. In this work, local augmentation can be applied on various backbone models to improve performance. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            358,
            825,
            497
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Graph Generative Models Generative models (Goodfellow et al., 2014; Kingma & Welling, 2013) are powerful tools of learning data distribution through unsupervised learning, and they have achieved tremendous success in various applications. Recently, researchers have proposed several interesting generative models for graph data generation. Variational graph auto-encoder (VGAE) (Kipf & Welling, 2016) makes use of latent variables and learns interpretable latent representations for undirected graphs. Salha et al. (2019) replace the GCN encoder in VGAE with a simple linear model and emphasize the effectiveness of a simple node encoding scheme. Xu et al. (2019) propose a generative model framework to learn node representations, by sampling graph generation sequences constructed from observed graph data. ConDgen (Yang et al., 2019) exploits the GCN encoder to handle the inherent challenges of flexible context-structure conditioning and permutation-invariant generation. Besides, some methods have been proposed to apply the graph generative models in various applications such as graph matching (Simonovsky & Komodakis, 2018), molecule design (Liu et al., 2018), retrosynthesis prediction (Shi et al., 2020) and chemical design (Samanta et al., 2018). Compared with these approaches mainly focusing on structure generation, our model takes full use of the power of the generative model for feature representation generation, which can serve as an enhanced technique for the downstream backbone models. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            512,
            825,
            733
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "7 CONCLUSION ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            753,
            318,
            770
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "We propose local augmentation, a brand-new technique that exploits the generative model to learn the conditional distribution of the central node’s neighbors’ feature representations given its representation. We can augment more 1-hop neighbors from a well-trained generative model to enhance the performance of backbone GNN models. Experiments show that our model can improve performance across various GNN architectures and benchmark datasets by enriching local information. Besides, our model achieves new state-of-the-art results on various semi-supervised node classification tasks. One limitation of our proposed framework is that we do not exploit the 2-hop neighbors or use the random walk to find more related neighbors for the central node. And one future work is that we can extract more $^ { 2 / 3 }$ -hop neighbors if the central node’s degree is small and learn the conditional distribution for random sampling nodes if the graph is large. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            785,
            825,
            924
        ],
        "page_idx": 8
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "REFERENCES ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            103,
            285,
            117
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Martín Abadi, Paul Barham, Jianmin Chen, Zhifeng Chen, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, et al. Tensorflow: A system for large-scale machine learning. In 12th {USENIX} symposium on operating systems design and implementation ({OSDI} 16), pp. 265–283, 2016. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            126,
            825,
            183
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Sami Abu-El-Haija, Bryan Perozzi, Amol Kapoor, Nazanin Alipourfard, Kristina Lerman, Hrayr Harutyunyan, Greg Ver Steeg, and Aram Galstyan. Mixhop: Higher-order graph convolutional architectures via sparsified neighborhood mixing. In international conference on machine learning, pp. 21–29. PMLR, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            193,
            826,
            248
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Antreas Antoniou, Amos Storkey, and Harrison Edwards. Data augmentation generative adversarial networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04340, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            258,
            821,
            287
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "James Atwood and Don Towsley. Diffusion-convolutional neural networks. In Advances in neural information processing systems, pp. 1993–2001, 2016. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            296,
            823,
            327
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Joan Bruna, Wojciech Zaremba, Arthur Szlam, and Yann LeCun. Spectral networks and locally connected networks on graphs. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2014. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            335,
            823,
            364
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Ming Chen, Zhewei Wei, Zengfeng Huang, Bolin Ding, and Yaliang Li. Simple and deep graph convolutional networks. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 1725–1735. PMLR, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            373,
            826,
            416
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Michaël Defferrard, Xavier Bresson, and Pierre Vandergheynst. Convolutional neural networks on graphs with fast localized spectral filtering. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2016. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            426,
            823,
            468
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Zhijie Deng, Yinpeng Dong, and Jun Zhu. Batch virtual adversarial training for graph convolutional networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.09192, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            478,
            823,
            508
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "David Duvenaud, Dougal Maclaurin, Jorge Aguilera-Iparraguirre, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Timothy Hirzel, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, and Ryan P Adams. Convolutional networks on graphs for learning molecular fingerprints. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2015. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            517,
            823,
            560
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Jie Tang, and Tat-Seng Chua. Graph adversarial training: Dynamically regularizing based on graph structure. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            569,
            826,
            612
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Wenzheng Feng, Jie Zhang, Yuxiao Dong, Yu Han, Huanbo Luan, Qian Xu, Qiang Yang, Evgeny Kharlamov, and Jie Tang. Graph random neural network for semi-supervised learning on graphs. In NeurIPS’20, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            622,
            826,
            665
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Hongyang Gao and Shuiwang Ji. Graph u-nets. In international conference on machine learning, pp. 2083–2092. PMLR, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            674,
            823,
            703
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Alberto García-Durán and Mathias Niepert. Learning graph representations with embedding propagation. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            713,
            825,
            742
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Ian J Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, and Yoshua Bengio. Generative adversarial networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2014. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            751,
            825,
            795
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Ning Feng, Chao Song, and Huaiyu Wan. Attention based spatialtemporal graph convolutional networks for traffic flow forecasting. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 922–929, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            804,
            825,
            847
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "William L Hamilton, Rex Ying, and Jure Leskovec. Inductive representation learning on large graphs. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            856,
            823,
            886
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Neil Houlsby, Ferenc Huszár, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Máté Lengyel. Bayesian active learning for classification and preference learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5745, 2011. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            895,
            821,
            924
        ],
        "page_idx": 9
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Gao Huang, Zhuang Liu, Laurens Van Der Maaten, and Kilian Q Weinberger. Densely connected convolutional networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp. 4700–4708, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            103,
            825,
            146
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Junteng Jia and Austion R Benson. Residual correlation in graph neural network regression. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 588–598, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            154,
            823,
            196
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Diederik P Kingma and Max Welling. Auto-encoding variational bayes. arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6114, 2013. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            204,
            825,
            233
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Thomas N Kipf and Max Welling. Variational graph auto-encoders. NIPS Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning, 2016. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            241,
            825,
            270
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Thomas N. Kipf and Max Welling. Semi-supervised classification with graph convolutional networks. In International Conference on Learning Representation, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            277,
            825,
            308
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Johannes Klicpera, Aleksandar Bojchevski, and Stephan Günnemann. Predict then propagate: Graph neural networks meet personalized pagerank. In International Conference on Learning Representation, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            314,
            825,
            358
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Kezhi Kong, Guohao Li, Mucong Ding, Zuxuan Wu, Chen Zhu, Bernard Ghanem, Gavin Taylor, and Tom Goldstein. Flag: Adversarial data augmentation for graph neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09891, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            364,
            825,
            409
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Qimai Li, Zhichao Han, and Xiao-Ming Wu. Deeper insights into graph convolutional networks for semi-supervised learning. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            416,
            825,
            445
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Renjie Liao, Zhizhen Zhao, Raquel Urtasun, and Richard S Zemel. Lanczosnet: Multi-scale deep graph convolutional networks. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            453,
            823,
            483
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Qi Liu, Miltiadis Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt, and Alexander L Gaunt. Constrained graph variational autoencoders for molecule design. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            489,
            825,
            532
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Tomas Mikolov, Ilya Sutskever, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, and Jeffrey Dean. Distributed representations of words and phrases and their compositionality. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2013. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            540,
            823,
            583
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Federico Monti, Davide Boscaini, Jonathan Masci, Emanuele Rodola, Jan Svoboda, and Michael M Bronstein. Geometric deep learning on graphs and manifolds using mixture model cnns. In Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp. 5115–5124, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            590,
            826,
            647
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Christopher Nielsen and Michal M Okoniewski. Gan data augmentation through active learning inspired sample acquisition. In CVPR Workshops, pp. 109–112, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            655,
            825,
            685
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Mathias Niepert, Mohamed Ahmed, and Konstantin Kutzkov. Learning convolutional neural networks for graphs. In International conference on machine learning, pp. 2014–2023. PMLR, 2016. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            691,
            825,
            722
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Gaurav Pandey and Ambedkar Dukkipati. Variational methods for conditional multimodal deep learning. In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 308–315. IEEE, 2017. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            728,
            825,
            772
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Adam Paszke, Sam Gross, Francisco Massa, Adam Lerer, James Bradbury, Gregory Chanan, Trevor Killeen, Zeming Lin, Natalia Gimelshein, Luca Antiga, et al. Pytorch: An imperative style, high-performance deep learning library. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            780,
            826,
            835
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Hongbin Pei, Bingzhe Wei, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Yu Lei, and Bo Yang. Geom-gcn: Geometric graph convolutional networks. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            844,
            823,
            873
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Bryan Perozzi, Rami Al-Rfou, and Steven Skiena. Deepwalk: Online learning of social representations. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, pp. 701–710, 2014. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            881,
            825,
            924
        ],
        "page_idx": 10
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Yu Rong, Wenbing Huang, Tingyang Xu, and Junzhou Huang. Dropedge: Towards deep graph convolutional networks on node classification. In International Conference on Learning Representation, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            103,
            825,
            146
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Benedek Rozemberczki, Carl Allen, and Rik Sarkar. Multi-scale attributed node embedding. Journal of Complex Networks, 9(2):cnab014, 2021. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            155,
            823,
            183
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Guillaume Salha, Romain Hennequin, and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Keep it simple: Graph autoencoders without graph convolutional networks. Workshop on Graph Representation Learning, 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            191,
            823,
            234
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Bidisha Samanta, Abir De, Niloy Ganguly, and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez. Designing random graph models using variational autoencoders with applications to chemical design. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05283, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            242,
            825,
            286
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Prithviraj Sen, Galileo Namata, Mustafa Bilgic, Lise Getoor, Brian Galligher, and Tina Eliassi-Rad. Collective classification in network data. AI magazine, 29(3):93–93, 2008. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            294,
            825,
            324
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Oleksandr Shchur, Maximilian Mumme, Aleksandar Bojchevski, and Stephan Günnemann. Pitfalls of graph neural network evaluation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05868, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            332,
            823,
            361
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Chence Shi, Minkai Xu, Hongyu Guo, Ming Zhang, and Jian Tang. A graph to graphs framework for retrosynthesis prediction. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 8818–8827. PMLR, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            368,
            825,
            411
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Connor Shorten and Taghi M Khoshgoftaar. A survey on image data augmentation for deep learning. Journal of Big Data, 6(1):1–48, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            420,
            823,
            449
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Martin Simonovsky and Nikos Komodakis. Graphvae: Towards generation of small graphs using variational autoencoders. In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, pp. 412–422. Springer, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            457,
            826,
            501
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Kihyuk Sohn, Honglak Lee, and Xinchen Yan. Learning structured output representation using deep conditional generative models. Advances in neural information processing systems, 28:3483–3491, 2015. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            508,
            826,
            551
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Jie Tang, Jimeng Sun, Chi Wang, and Zi Yang. Social influence analysis in large-scale networks. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, pp. 807–816, 2009. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            559,
            826,
            603
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Petar Velickovi ˇ c, Guillem Cucurull, Arantxa Casanova, Adriana Romero, Pietro Lio, and Yoshua ´ Bengio. Graph attention networks. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            611,
            826,
            654
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Haibo Wang, Chuan Zhou, Xin Chen, Jia Wu, Shirui Pan, and Jilong Wang. Graph stochastic neural networks for semi-supervised learning. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020a. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            661,
            826,
            705
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Minjie Wang, Da Zheng, Zihao Ye, Quan Gan, Mufei Li, Xiang Song, Jinjing Zhou, Chao Ma, Lingfan Yu, Yu Gai, Tianjun Xiao, Tong He, George Karypis, Jinyang Li, and Zheng Zhang. Deep graph library: A graph-centric, highly-performant package for graph neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01315, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            713,
            826,
            770
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Yiwei Wang, Wei Wang, Yuxuan Liang, Yujun Cai, Juncheng Liu, and Bryan Hooi. Nodeaug: Semi-supervised node classification with data augmentation. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 207–217, 2020b. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            779,
            825,
            821
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Yu Wang and Tyler Derr. Tree decomposed graph neural network. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, pp. 2040–2049, 2021. ",
        "bbox": [
            171,
            829,
            825,
            859
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Da Xu, Chuanwei Ruan, Kamiya Motwani, Evren Korpeoglu, Sushant Kumar, and Kannan Achan. Generative graph convolutional network for growing graphs. In ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3167–3171. IEEE, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            867,
            826,
            922
        ],
        "page_idx": 11
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Keyulu Xu, Chengtao Li, Yonglong Tian, Tomohiro Sonobe, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, and Stefanie Jegelka. Representation learning on graphs with jumping knowledge networks. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 5453–5462. PMLR, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            103,
            823,
            146
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Carl Yang, Peiye Zhuang, Wenhan Shi, Alan Luu, and Pan Li. Conditional structure generation through graph variational generative adversarial nets. In NeurIPS, pp. 1338–1349, 2019. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            155,
            823,
            184
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Zhilin Yang, William Cohen, and Ruslan Salakhudinov. Revisiting semi-supervised learning with graph embeddings. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 40–48, 2016. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            193,
            823,
            222
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Rex Ying, Ruining He, Kaifeng Chen, Pong Eksombatchai, William L Hamilton, and Jure Leskovec. Graph convolutional neural networks for web-scale recommender systems. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 974–983, 2018. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            229,
            828,
            286
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Hanqing Zeng, Muhan Zhang, Yinglong Xia, Ajitesh Srivastava, Andrey Malevich, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna, Long Jin, and Ren Chen. Decoupling the depth and scope of graph neural networks. In Thirty-Fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            295,
            826,
            338
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Leonardo Neves, Oliver Woodford, Meng Jiang, and Neil Shah. Data augmentation for graph neural networks. In The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            347,
            826,
            390
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Danhao Zhu, Xin-Yu Dai, and Jiajun Chen. Pre-train and learn: Preserve global information for graph neural networks. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            398,
            825,
            428
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Hao Zhu and Piotr Koniusz. Simple spectral graph convolution. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            436,
            825,
            465
        ],
        "page_idx": 12
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "A PROOF OF EQ.(6) ",
        "bbox": [
            176,
            102,
            356,
            118
        ],
        "page_idx": 13
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "We give more details of the derivation of the generator ELBO as follows: ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            132,
            651,
            148
        ],
        "page_idx": 13
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/01504f03f7ada796d4cba0d38187f79fff717bd6ed61294a2986883682426937.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\begin{array} { r l } { \\log _ { \\rho } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbb { X } _ { j } - j } & { \\neq \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\rangle \\log _ { \\rho } \\langle ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle \\mathrm { d } \\mathbf { z } } \\\\ & { = \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { A } _ { \\mathbf { x } } \\mathbf { x } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\log _ { \\rho } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\log _ { \\rho } \\langle ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\rangle } \\\\ & { \\quad - \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\rangle \\log _ { \\rho } | \\langle ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle \\mathrm { d } \\mathbf { z } | } \\\\ & { = \\int \\langle \\exp \\{ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\} | \\exp \\{ \\exp \\{ | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\} \\} \\exp \\{ | \\langle \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\mathbf { X } _ { j } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\} \\mathrm { d } \\mathbf { z } } \\\\ & { \\quad - \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\rangle \\exp \\{ | \\langle \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } , ~ \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle | \\} } \\\\ & { \\quad - \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathrm { X } _ { i } \\rangle \\exp \\{ | \\langle \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle | \\} } \\\\ & { = \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { X } _ { i } \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle \\log _ { \\rho } \\langle \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle \\exp \\{ | \\langle \\mathbf { X } _ { i } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle | } \\\\ & { \\quad - \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { Z } _ { j } \\rangle \\exp \\{ | \\langle \\mathbf { X } _ { j } | \\mathbf { X } _ { j } \\rangle | } \\\\ &  \\quad - \\int \\langle z | \\mathbf { z } | \\mathbf { Z } _ { j } \\rangle \\exp \\{  \\end{array}\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            186,
            161,
            807,
            479
        ],
        "page_idx": 13
    },
    {
        "type": "equation",
        "img_path": "images/aa9a684ca0fb2a1ddb7fd7779680817f5be8a402f74f61f4ea0b13e88e8aae6e.jpg",
        "text": "$$\n\\begin{array} { r l } { L _ { E L B O } = \\displaystyle { \\int } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , \\mathbf X _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\phi } ( { \\mathbf x } _ { j } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) \\log } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) } } \\mathrm { d } { \\mathbf z } } \\\\ { } & { ~ = \\displaystyle { \\int } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , \\mathbf X _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\psi } ( { \\mathbf X _ { j } } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } , { \\mathbf z } ) } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) p _ { \\psi } ( { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) } } \\mathrm { d } { \\mathbf z } } \\\\ { } & { ~ = \\displaystyle { \\int } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , \\mathbf X _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\phi } ( { \\mathbf X _ { j } } | \\mathbf X _ { i } , { \\mathbf z } ) p _ { \\psi } ( { \\mathbf X _ { i } } , { \\mathbf z } ) } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) p _ { \\psi } ( { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) } } \\mathrm { d } { \\mathbf z } } \\\\ { } & { ~ = \\displaystyle { \\int } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , \\mathbf X _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\phi } ( { \\mathbf X _ { j } } | \\mathbf X _ { i } , { \\mathbf z } ) p _ { \\psi } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { i } ) } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) } } \\mathrm { d } { \\mathbf z } } \\\\ { } &  ~ = \\displaystyle { \\int } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , \\mathbf X _ { i } ) \\log \\frac { p _ { \\phi } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , { \\mathbf z } ) p _ { \\phi } ( { \\mathbf Z } | \\mathbf X _ { i } ) } { q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , { \\mathbf X _ { i } } ) } } \\\\ { } &  ~ = \\displaystyle { \\int }  q _ { \\mathcal { G } } ( { \\mathbf z } | \\mathbf X _ { j } , \\mathbf X _ { i }  \\end{array}\n$$",
        "text_format": "latex",
        "bbox": [
            205,
            500,
            794,
            709
        ],
        "page_idx": 13
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "B REPRODUCIBILITY ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            102,
            364,
            118
        ],
        "page_idx": 14
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "B.1 DATASETS DETAILS ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            137,
            354,
            152
        ],
        "page_idx": 14
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Cora, Citeseer, and Pubmed are standard citation network benchmark datasets Sen et al. (2008). In these datasets, nodes represent documents, and edges denote citations; node feature corresponds to elements of a bag-of-words representation of a document, and node label corresponds to one of the academic topics. Besides, we utilize four datasets used in Pei et al. (2020) for evaluation. Chameleon and squirrel are two page-page networks on specific topics in Wikipedia Rozemberczki et al. (2021). In these datasets, nodes represent web pages, and edges denote mutual links between pages; node features correspond to several informative nouns in the Wikipedia pages and labels correspond to the number of the average monthly traffic of the web page. WebKB1 is a webpage dataset collected from various universities. We use the one subdataset of it, Cornell. In this dataset, nodes represent web pages, and edges are hyperlinks between them; node features correspond to the bag-of-words representation of web pages and labels correspond to five categories, student, project, course, staff, and faculty. Film dataset is the actor-only induced subgraph of the film-directoractor-writer network Tang et al. (2009). In this dataset, Nodes represent actors, and edges denote co-occurrence on the same Wikipedia page; node features correspond to some keywords in the Wikipedia pages and labels correspond to five categories in terms of words of actor’s Wikipedia. All the dataset statistics are summarized in Table 6. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            166,
            825,
            388
        ],
        "page_idx": 14
    },
    {
        "type": "table",
        "img_path": "images/9189a83de3b4a0f4273adc81377846a9326d602d8a44f8ccfd0247d8b28f9990.jpg",
        "table_caption": [
            "Table 6: Datasets statistics "
        ],
        "table_footnote": [],
        "table_body": "<table><tr><td>Dataset</td><td>Cora</td><td>Cite.</td><td>Pubm.</td><td>Cham.</td><td>Squi.</td><td>Actor</td><td>Corn.</td></tr><tr><td>#Nodes</td><td>2708</td><td>3327</td><td>19717</td><td>2277</td><td>5201</td><td>7600</td><td>183</td></tr><tr><td>#Edges</td><td>5429</td><td>4732</td><td>44338</td><td>36101</td><td>217073</td><td>33544</td><td>295</td></tr><tr><td>#Features</td><td>1433</td><td>3703</td><td>500</td><td>2325</td><td>2089</td><td>931</td><td>1703</td></tr><tr><td># Classes</td><td>7</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>5</td></tr></table>",
        "bbox": [
            246,
            435,
            751,
            521
        ],
        "page_idx": 14
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "B.2 IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            568,
            408,
            583
        ],
        "page_idx": 14
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "We use Pytorch (Paszke et al., 2019) to implement LA-GNNs. The codes of $S ^ { 2 } G C$ (Zhu & Koniusz, 2021), LA-GCN, LA-GAT, LA-GCNII, LA-GRAND, and DropEdge-GCN are implemented referring to Pytorch implementation of $\\mathrm { S } ^ { 2 } \\mathrm { G } \\mathrm { C } ^ { 2 }$ , $\\mathrm { G C N } ^ { 3 }$ (Kipf & Welling, 2017), $\\mathrm { G A T ^ { 4 } }$ (Velickovi ˇ c et al., 2018), ´ $\\mathrm { G C N I I } ^ { 5 }$ (Chen et al., 2020) $\\mathrm { G R A N D } ^ { 6 }$ (Feng et al., 2020), and DropEdge- $\\mathbf { \\Delta } G \\mathbf { C N } ^ { 7 }$ (Rong et al., 2020). Besides, we implement APPNP (Klicpera et al., 2019) with DGL (Wang et al., 2019) version of APPNP8. The datasets Cora, Citeseer, Pubmed are downloaded from TensorFlow (Abadi et al., 2016) implementation of $\\mathrm { G C N ^ { 9 } }$ , and the datasets Chameleon, Squirrel, Actor, and Cornell are downloaded from the implementation of Geom- $\\mathrm { G C N ^ { 1 0 } }$ (Pei et al., 2020). All the experiments in this work are conducted on a single NVIDIA Tesla V100 with 32GB memory size. The operating system behind the Docker where the experiments are running is Red Hat 4.8.2-16. And the software that we use for experiments are Python 3.6.8, numpy 1.19.2, sklearn 0.0, scipy 1.5.4, networkx 2.5.1, torch 1.6.0, torchvision 0.7.0, CUDA 10.2.89, and CUDNN 8.0.2. ",
        "bbox": [
            173,
            597,
            826,
            763
        ],
        "page_idx": 14
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "B.3 HYPERPARAMETER DETAILS ",
        "text_level": 1,
        "bbox": [
            176,
            103,
            416,
            117
        ],
        "page_idx": 15
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "LA-GNNs introduce an additional parameter, that is the hidden layer for generated feature matrix $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ before concatenation. The difference of architectures between GCN and LA-GCN can be found in Figure 4, and the LA-GCNII architecture can be found in Figure 5. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            128,
            825,
            172
        ],
        "page_idx": 15
    },
    {
        "type": "image",
        "img_path": "images/d7816fad620dd0825bfeea46796303662cc8614bc99cb04d713507ea99f5f1a5.jpg",
        "image_caption": [
            "Figure 4: GCN and LA-GCN architectures. The difference between GCN and LA-GCN architectures is that the LA-GCN has an additional convolutional layer for $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ and it uses a concatenation operation to mix the hidden representations. "
        ],
        "image_footnote": [],
        "bbox": [
            207,
            190,
            792,
            285
        ],
        "page_idx": 15
    },
    {
        "type": "image",
        "img_path": "images/5443477c1a5cf6f340de4b0323cbbb8400ffee35c029505e3e5d44d84aa3e826.jpg",
        "image_caption": [
            "Figure 5: LA-GCNII architecture. The difference between GCNII and LA-GCNII is that the LAGCNII has an additional MLP layer for $\\overline { { \\mathbf { X } } }$ and it uses a concatenation operation to mix the hidden representations. "
        ],
        "image_footnote": [],
        "bbox": [
            174,
            369,
            825,
            469
        ],
        "page_idx": 15
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "The difference of hyperparameters between the GCN and LA-GCN is only the hidden layer size before concatenation. For the LA-GCNII, LA-GAT, LA-GRAND, we tune the hyperparameters in the same way as described in their original papers with validation set. ",
        "bbox": [
            174,
            555,
            825,
            598
        ],
        "page_idx": 15
    }
]