【GNN报告】复旦大学黄增峰：从优化的角度理解图神经网络

In the recent few years, graph neural network (GNN) has emerged as a major tool for graph machine learning and has found numerous applications. In this talk, I will introduce an optimization-based framework for understanding and deriving GNNs model, which involves treating graph propagation as unfolded descent iterations as applied to some graph-regularized energy function. Then I will talk about a graph attention model obtained from this framework through a robust objective. I will also briefly talk about the connection and difference between this unfolding scheme and implicit GNNs, which treats node representations as the fixed points of a deep equilibrium model.

报告人简介：

Zengfeng Huang is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Data Science, Fudan University. Before that he was a Research Fellow in CSE, UNSW and a Postdoc in MADALGO, Aarhus University. He obtained his PhD at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in CSE and B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University. His research interests are foundations of data science, machine learning algorithms, graph analytics, and theoretical computer science. His single-authored paper, “Near Optimal Frequent Directions for Sketching Dense and Sparse Matrices”, is the winner of ICML 2018 Best Paper Runner Up Award and 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Outstanding Paper Nomination Award.