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Wasserstein Weisfeiler-Lehman Graph Kernels
Matteo Togninalli · Elisabetta Ghisu · Felipe Llinares-López · Bastian Rieck · Karsten Borgwardt

Thu Dec 12 04:45 PM -- 04:50 PM (PST) @ West Ballroom A + B
in Track 3 Session 6 »

Most graph kernels are an instance of the class of R-Convolution kernels, which measure the similarity of objects by comparing their substructures. Despite their empirical success, most graph kernels use a naive aggregation of the final set of substructures, usually a sum or average, thereby potentially discarding valuable information about the distribution of individual components. Furthermore, only a limited instance of these approaches can be extended to continuously attributed graphs. We propose a novel method that relies on the Wasserstein distance between the node feature vector distributions of two graphs, which allows to find subtler differences in data sets by considering graphs as high-dimensional objects, rather than simple means. We further propose a Weisfeiler--Lehman inspired embedding scheme for graphs with continuous node attributes and weighted edges, enhance it with the computed Wasserstein distance, and thus improve the state-of-the-art prediction performance on several graph classification tasks.

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Author Information

Matteo Togninalli (ETH Zürich)

PhD Candidate at ETH Zürich

Elisabetta Ghisu (ETH Zurich)
Felipe Llinares-López (ETH Zürich)
Bastian Rieck (ETH Zurich)
Karsten Borgwardt (ETH Zurich)

Karsten Borgwardt is Professor of Data Mining at ETH Zürich, at the Department of Biosystems located in Basel. His work has won several awards, including the NIPS 2009 Outstanding Paper Award, the Krupp Award for Young Professors 2013 and a Starting Grant 2014 from the ERC-backup scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2013, he is heading the Marie Curie Initial Training Network for "Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine" with 12 partner labs in 8 countries (http://www.mlpm.eu). The business magazine "Capital" listed him as one of the "Top 40 under 40" in Science in/from Germany in 2014, 2015 and 2016. For more information, visit: https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/mlcb

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