Relation-Aware Weighted Embedding for Heterogeneous Graphs

Heterogeneous graph embedding, aiming to learn the low-dimensional representations of nodes, is effective in many tasks, such as link prediction, node classification, and community detection. Most existing graph embedding methods conducted on heterogeneous graphs treat the heterogeneous neighbours equally. Although it is possible to get node weights through attention mechanisms mainly developed using expensive recursive message-passing, they are difficult to deal with large-scale networks. In this paper, we propose R-WHGE, a relation-aware weighted embedding model for heterogeneous graphs, to resolve this issue. R-WHGE comprehensively considers structural information, semantic information, meta-paths of nodes and meta-path-based node weights to learn effective node embeddings. More specifically, we first extract the feature importance of each node and then take the nodes’ importance as node weights. A weighted random walks-based embedding learning model is proposed to generate the initial weighted node embeddings according to each meta-path. Finally, we feed these embeddings to a relation-aware heterogeneous graph neural network to generate compact embeddings of nodes, which captures relation-aware characteristics. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our model is competitive against various state-of-the-art methods.