Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

In the last decade, deep learning has reinvigorated the machine learning field. It has solved many problems in computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and other domains with state-of-the-art performances. In these domains, the data is generally represented in the Euclidean space. Various other domains conform to non-Euclidean space, for which a graph is an ideal representation. Graphs are suitable for representing the dependencies and inter-relationships between various entities. Traditionally, handcrafted features for graphs are incapable of providing the necessary inference for various tasks from this complex data representation. Recently, there has been an emergence of employing various advances in deep learning for graph-based tasks (called Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)). This article introduces preliminary knowledge regarding GNNs and comprehensively surveys GNNs in different learning paradigms—supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, self-supervised, and few-shot or meta-learning. The taxonomy of each graph-based learning setting is provided with logical divisions of methods falling in the given learning setting. The approaches for each learning task are analyzed from theoretical and empirical standpoints. Further, we provide general architecture design guidelines for building GNN models. Various applications and benchmark datasets are also provided, along with open challenges still plaguing the general applicability of GNNs.

Keywords:  
Graph neural network
meta-learning
computer vision
speech recognition
natural language processing
Machine Learning
Deep learning

Author(s) Name:  Lilapati Waikhom & Ripon Patgiri

Publisher name:  Springer

DOI:  10.1007/s10462-022-10321-2

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Paper Link:   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10462-022-10321-2