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HetGNN-SF: Self-supervised learning on heterogeneous graph neural network via semantic strength and feature similarity

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Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) can effectively model multiple node types and complex interactions in real networks and solve problems in various practical applications. Self-supervised Learning-based HGNNs (SL-HGNNs) have become the current research focus in this field because they can solve the problem of difficult label acquisition in practical scenarios. These methods usually split heterogeneous graphs into multiple subgraphs based on meta-paths for separate study. However, they ignore the complex interactions between the different semantics of the graphs. In addition, they use node features as auxiliary information for heterogeneous graph representation learning and ignore the importance of features. To solve the above problems, we propose a Self-supervised Learning on Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network via Semantic strength and Feature similarity (HetGNN-SF) model. This model innovatively implements a Feature- and Topology-based Comparative optimization (FTC) method to generate weights for different meta-paths and then splits the original heterogeneous graph into different semantic subgraphs based on meta-paths. Thereafter, the different subgraphs are fused by the FTC to generate semantic fusion graphs that capture the interactions between different semantics. Semantic strength and feature similarity perspectives generate node embeddings from the semantic fusion graphs. Finally, the FTC positive and negative samples are used for contrastive learning from the two perspectives to yield the final node embeddings. Extensive experiments are conducted on three real datasets using the proposed HetGNN-SF model; the results reveal that HetGNN-SF outperforms state-of-the-art models. Our data and code are available on GitHub (https://github.com/LiuXMaa/HetGNN-SF-.git).

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The datasets used in the experiments are publicly available in the online repository.

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  2. https://github.com/Andy-Border/NSHE

  3. https://github.com/cynricfu/MAGNN

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.62072288, 61702306), the Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No.ZR2022MF268).

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.62072288, 61702306), the Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No.ZR2022MF268).

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    Chao Li, Xinming Liu, Yeyu Yan & Qingtian Zeng

  2. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qianwangang Road, Qingdao, 266590, Shandong, China

    Zhongying Zhao & Qingtian Zeng

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Chao Li, Xinming Liu, Zhongying Zhao wrote the main manuscript text; Xinming Liu and Yeyu Yan prepared the result of our experiments; All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Li, C., Liu, X., Yan, Y. et al. HetGNN-SF: Self-supervised learning on heterogeneous graph neural network via semantic strength and feature similarity. Appl Intell 53, 21902–21919 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-023-04612-6

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