Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems

Systems whose entities interact with each other are common. In many interacting systems, it is difficult to observe the relations between entities which is the key information for analyzing the system. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in discovering the relationships between entit...

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Autores principales: Dohae Lee, Young Jin Oh, In-Kwon Lee
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:08fc98bf9acd467796283a6379dd2f602021-11-18T00:04:34ZDiscovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems2169-353610.1109/ACCESS.2021.3125335https://doaj.org/article/08fc98bf9acd467796283a6379dd2f602021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9600885/https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536Systems whose entities interact with each other are common. In many interacting systems, it is difficult to observe the relations between entities which is the key information for analyzing the system. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in discovering the relationships between entities using graph neural networks. However, existing approaches are difficult to apply if the number of relations is unknown or if the relations are complex. We propose the DiScovering Latent Relation (DSLR) model, which is flexibly applicable even if the number of relations is unknown or many types of relations exist. The flexibility of our DSLR model comes from the design concept of our encoder that represents the relation between entities in a latent space rather than a discrete variable and a decoder that can handle many types of relations. We performed the experiments on synthetic and real-world graph data with various relationships between entities, and compared the qualitative and quantitative results with other approaches. The experiments show that the proposed method is suitable for analyzing dynamic graphs with an unknown number of complex relations.Dohae LeeYoung Jin OhIn-Kwon LeeIEEEarticleGraph neural networkrelational inferenceunsupervised learningElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringTK1-9971ENIEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 149089-149099 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Graph neural network
relational inference
unsupervised learning
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
spellingShingle Graph neural network
relational inference
unsupervised learning
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
Dohae Lee
Young Jin Oh
In-Kwon Lee
Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems
description Systems whose entities interact with each other are common. In many interacting systems, it is difficult to observe the relations between entities which is the key information for analyzing the system. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in discovering the relationships between entities using graph neural networks. However, existing approaches are difficult to apply if the number of relations is unknown or if the relations are complex. We propose the DiScovering Latent Relation (DSLR) model, which is flexibly applicable even if the number of relations is unknown or many types of relations exist. The flexibility of our DSLR model comes from the design concept of our encoder that represents the relation between entities in a latent space rather than a discrete variable and a decoder that can handle many types of relations. We performed the experiments on synthetic and real-world graph data with various relationships between entities, and compared the qualitative and quantitative results with other approaches. The experiments show that the proposed method is suitable for analyzing dynamic graphs with an unknown number of complex relations.
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author Dohae Lee
Young Jin Oh
In-Kwon Lee
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Young Jin Oh
In-Kwon Lee
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title Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems
title_short Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems
title_full Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems
title_fullStr Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems
title_full_unstemmed Discovering Latent Representations of Relations for Interacting Systems
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