Affiliation:
1. Department of Computer Engineering, Abdullah Gül University, Kayseri, Turkey
2. Hakkari University, Kayseri 38080, Turkey
3. Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
4. Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Background
Link prediction is an important and well-studied problem in network biology. Recently, graph representation learning methods, including Graph Convolutional Network (GCN)-based node embedding have drawn increasing attention in link prediction.
Motivation
An important component of GCN-based network embedding is the convolution matrix, which is used to propagate features across the network. Existing algorithms use the degree-normalized adjacency matrix for this purpose, as this matrix is closely related to the graph Laplacian, capturing the spectral properties of the network. In parallel, it has been shown that GCNs with a single layer can generate more robust embeddings by reducing the number of parameters. Laplacian-based convolution is not well suited to single-layered GCNs, as it limits the propagation of information to immediate neighbors of a node.
Results
Capitalizing on the rich literature on unsupervised link prediction, we propose using node similarity-based convolution matrices in GCNs to compute node embeddings for link prediction. We consider eight representative node-similarity measures (Common Neighbors, Jaccard Index, Adamic-Adar, Resource Allocation, Hub- Depressed Index, Hub-Promoted Index, Sorenson Index and Salton Index) for this purpose. We systematically compare the performance of the resulting algorithms against GCNs that use the degree-normalized adjacency matrix for convolution, as well as other link prediction algorithms. In our experiments, we use three-link prediction tasks involving biomedical networks: drug–disease association prediction, drug–drug interaction prediction and protein–protein interaction prediction. Our results show that node similarity-based convolution matrices significantly improve the link prediction performance of GCN-based embeddings.
Conclusion
As sophisticated machine-learning frameworks are increasingly employed in biological applications, historically well-established methods can be useful in making a head-start.
Availability and implementation
Our method, SiGraC, is implemented as a Python library and is freely available at https://github.com/mustafaCoskunAgu/SiGraC.
Funder
US National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Computational Mathematics,Computational Theory and Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry,Statistics and Probability
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