LINE: Large-scale Information Network Embedding.pptx
1. LINE: Large-scale Information
Network Embedding
Tien-Bach-Thanh Do
Network Science Lab
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence
The Catholic University of Korea
E-mail: xxx@catholic.ac.kr
2024/01/02
Jian Tang et al.
WWW 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World
Wide Web (2015)
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Introduction
● LINE is a novel network embedding method
● It is suitable for arbitrary types of information networks: undirected, directed, and/or weighted
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Motivation
● Challenges in working with large-scale graphs
● Need for methods preserving both local and global structures
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Overview
● LINE (Large-scale Information Network Embeddings) is a network embedding algorithm designed to learn
distributed representations (embeddings) of nodes in a graph. The primary objective of LINE is to capture
the structural information of a network in a continuous vector space. It specifically aims to preserve both
first-order and second-order proximity structures within the graph.
● First-order proximity refers to the immediate neighborhood relationships between nodes. In the context of
LINE, preserving first-order proximity means that nodes that are close in the original graph should also
have similar vector representations in the embedding space.
● Second-order proximity considers the structural equivalence between nodes based on their neighborhood
connectivity. If two nodes have similar neighbors, they are considered structurally equivalent. LINE aims
to preserve second-order proximity by ensuring that nodes with similar neighborhood structures have
similar embeddings.
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Objectives
● The method optimizes a carefully designed objective function
● It preserves both local and global network structures
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Efficiency
● The algorithm is very efficient
● It is able to learn the embedding of a network with millions of nodes and billions of edges
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Methodology
Optimization Process using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)
● Initialization: Initialize the embeddings of nodes randomly in a continuous vector space.
● Stochastic Gradient Descent:
○ For each edge (u, v) in the graph:
■ For first-order proximity:
● Sample a context node c from the neighbors of the target node u.
● Update the embedding of u to minimize the negative log probability of c given u.
■ For second-order proximity:
● Sample a common neighbor c from the neighbors of both u and v.
● Update the embeddings of both u and v to minimize the negative log probability of
observing each other's context nodes given the common neighbor c.
● Objective Function Minimization: The optimization process involves adjusting the embeddings to
minimize the negative log likelihood of the observed context nodes given the target nodes for both first-
order and second-order proximity. This is typically done using stochastic gradient descent, which
incrementally updates the embeddings based on small batches of sampled edges.
● Convergence: Iterate through the stochastic gradient descent updates until the objective functions
converge or reach a predefined stopping criterion
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Comparison
DeepWalk Node2Vec LINE
Objective Generate node embeddings by
preserving local proximity in the
graph
Extend DeepWalk by introducing a
biased random walk strategy to
capture both local and global
structures
Optimize a likelihood function to
preserve first-order and second-
order proximity in the network
Random Walk Strategy Unbiased random walks Biased random walks with
parameters controlling exploration
and exploitation
Utilizes first-order and second-
order proximity through a network-
wide objective
Proximity Metrics Typically uses random walk
embeddings based on Skip-gram
model (Word2Vec)
Combines Skip-gram and
Continuous Bag of Words (CBOW)
models to capture local and global
structures
Directly optimizes first-order and
second-order proximity measures
Scalability Efficient for large-scale graphs Can be less efficient for large-scale
graphs due to the biased random
walks strategy
Designed for scalability and is
suitable for large networks
Exploration-Exploitation No explicit control over exploration
and exploitation
Parameters control the balance
between exploration and
exploitation during random walks
Utilizes a unified objective to
implicitly balance exploration and
exploitation
Network Structure Primarily captures local structures Captures both local and global
structures
Tries to capture both first-order and
second-order proximity structures
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Applications
● Useful in many tasks such as visualization, node classification, and link prediction
● Empirical experiments prove the effectiveness of the LINE on a variety of real-world information
networks, including language networks, social networks, and citation networks
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Challenges
● Scalability
○ LINE is designed for scalability, but extremely large networks may still pose computational challenges
● Sensitivity to hyperparameters
○ LINE involves parameters like the number of dimensions and the number of negative samples, which can
impact results
○ Careful parameter tuning is crucial. Automated methods or sensitivity analyses can be employed
● Handling dynamic networks
○ LINE is primarily designed for static networks, and may not fully capture the dynamics in evolving networks
○ Extensions or combination with dynamic network embedding methods may be explored for more accurate
representations
● Lack of edge weight consideration
○ LINE does not explicitly consider edge weights, potentially limiting its applicability to weighted networks
○ Future research might explore adaptations or extensions of LINE to incorporate edge weights more
effectively
● Limited interpretability
○ The resulting embeddings may lack interpretability, making it challenging to understand the meaning of
individual dimensions
○ Incorporating domain-specific information or post-processing techniques for interpretability can be
explored
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Experiment
Language Network
GF: graph factorization, applies to undirected networks only
LINE-SGD(1st): first-order proximity, applies to undirected networks only
LINE-SGD(2nd): second-order proximity, applies to both undirected and directed graphs
LINE(1st): LINE model optimized through edge-sampling,applies to undirected networks only
LINE (2nd): LINE model optimized through edge-sampling,applies to undirected and directed graphs
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Conclusion
● LINE is powerful tool for embedding large-scale information networks
● It preserves important network structures and scales to networks with millions of vertices and billions of
edges