Multi-View Network Representation Learning Algorithm Research

Network representation learning is a key research field in network data mining. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view network representation algorithm (MVNR), which embeds multi-scale relations of network vertices into the low dimensional representation space. In contrast to existing approaches, MVNR explicitly encodes higher order information using k-step networks. In addition, we introduce the matrix forest index as a kind of network feature, which can be applied to balance the representation weights of different network views. We also research the relevance amongst MVNR and several excellent research achievements, including DeepWalk, node2vec and GraRep and so forth. We conduct our experiment on several real-world citation datasets and demonstrate that MVNR outperforms some new approaches using neural matrix factorization. Specifically, we demonstrate the efficiency of MVNR on network classification, visualization and link prediction tasks.