On interpretation of network embedding via taxonomy induction

Ninghao Liu, Xiao Huang, Jundong Li, Xia Hu

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Abstract

Network embedding has been increasingly used in many network analytics applications to generate low-dimensional vector representations, so that many off-the-shelf models can be applied to solve a wide variety of data mining tasks. However, similar to many other machine learning methods, network embedding results remain hard to be understood by users. Each dimension in the embedding space usually does not have any specific meaning, thus it is difficult to comprehend how the embedding instances are distributed in the reconstructed space. In addition, heterogeneous content information may be incorporated into network embedding, so it is challenging to specify which source of information is effective in generating the embedding results. In this paper, we investigate the interpretation of network embedding, aiming to understand how instances are distributed in embedding space, as well as explore the factors that lead to the embedding results. We resort to the post-hoc interpretation scheme, so that our approach can be applied to different types of embedding methods. Specifically, the interpretation of network embedding is presented in the form of a taxonomy. Effective objectives and corresponding algorithms are developed towards building the taxonomy. We also design several metrics to evaluate interpretation results. Experiments on real-world datasets from different domains demonstrate that, by comparing with the state-of-the-art alternatives, our approach produces effective and meaningful interpretation to embedding results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD 2018 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1812-1820
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781450355520
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2018 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 19 Aug 201823 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period19/08/1823/08/18

Keywords

  • Machine Learning Interpretation
  • Network Embedding
  • Taxonomy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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