A Model-Agnostic Graph Neural Network for Integrating Local and Global Information

Event Date: 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:45pm

Event Date Details: 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024. 

Event Location: 

  • HSSB 1173

Event Price: 

FREE

Event Contact: 

Dr. Annie Qu 

University of California, Irvine 

Chancellor's Professor 

  • Department Seminar Series

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved promising performance in a variety of graph focused tasks. Despite their success, the two major limitations of existing GNNs are the capability of learning various-order representations and providing interpretability of such deep learning-based black-box models. To tackle these issues, we propose a novel Model-agnostic Graph Neural Network (MaGNet) framework. The proposed framework is able to extract knowledge from high-order neighbors, sequentially integrates information of various orders, and offers explanations for the learned model by identifying influential compact graph structures. In particular, MaGNet consists of two components: an estimation model for the latent representation of complex relationships under graph topology, and an interpretation model that identifies influential nodes,edges, and important node features.Theoretically, we establish the generalization error bound for MaGNet via empirical Rademacher complexity and showcase its power to represent the layer-wise neighborhood mixing. We conduct comprehensive numerical studies using both simulated data and a real-world case study on investigating the neural mechanisms of the rat hippocampus, demonstrating that the performance of MaGNet is competitive with state-of-the-art methods.