Beyond Spatio-Temporal Representations: Evolving Fourier Transform for Temporal Graphs

arXiv (Cornell University)

Abstract

We present the Evolving Graph Fourier Transform (EFT), the first invertible spectral transform that captures evolving representations on temporal graphs. We motivate our work by the inadequacy of existing methods for capturing the evolving graph spectra, which are also computationally expensive due to the temporal aspect along with the graph vertex domain. We view the problem as an optimization over the Laplacian of the continuous time dynamic graph. Additionally, we propose pseudo-spectrum relaxations that decompose the transformation process, making it highly computationally efficient. The EFT method adeptly captures the evolving graph's structural and positional properties, making it effective for downstream tasks on evolving graphs. Hence, as a reference implementation, we develop a simple neural model induced with EFT for capturing evolving graph spectra. We empirically validate our theoretical findings on a number of large-scale and standard temporal graph benchmarks and demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance.

Authors 5

1. Anson Bastos

   Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

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   HERE Technologies , India

   Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad , India

2. Kuldeep Singh
   Affiliation as printed

   Cerence Gmbh , Germany

3. Abhishek Nadgeri Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen , Germany

4. Manish Singh

   Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

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   Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad , India

5. Toyotaro Suzumura

   The University of Tokyo

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   The University of Tokyo , Japan