Fast Graph Learning with Unique Optimal Solutions

Abstract

We consider two popular Graph Representation Learning (GRL) methods: message passing for node classification and network embedding for link prediction. For each, we pick a popular model that we: (i) *linearize* and (ii) and switch its training objective to *Frobenius norm error minimization*. These simplifications can cast the training into finding the optimal parameters in closed-form. We program in TensorFlow a functional form of Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), such that, we could decompose a dense matrix $\mathbf{M}$, without explicitly computing $\mathbf{M}$. We achieve competitive performance on popular GRL tasks while providing orders of magnitude speedup. We open-source our code at http://github.com/samihaija/tf-fsvd