Graph Neural Network

Data Science, AI and ML
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Graph Neural Network, as how it is called, is a neural network that can directly be applied to graphs. It provides a convenient way for node level, edge level, and graph level prediction task.

There are mainly three types of graph neural networks in the literature:

  1. Recurrent Graph Neural Network
  2. Spatial Convolutional Network
  3. Spectral Convolutional Network

The intuition of GNN is that nodes are naturally defined by their neighbors and connections. To understand this we can simply imagine that if we remove the neighbors and connections around a node, then the node will lose all its information. Therefore, the neighbors of a node and connections to neighbors define the concept of the node.

Having this in mind, we then give every node a state (x) to represent its concept. We can use the node state (x) to produce an output (o), i.e. decision about the concept. The final state (x_n) of the node is normally called “node embedding”. The task of all GNN is to determine the “node embedding” of each node, by looking at the information on its neighboring nodes.