Mining Interesting Meta-Paths from Complex Heterogeneous

Information NetworksBaoxu Shi, Tim Weninger University of Notre Dame

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Homogeneous Network

MoDAT

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Heterogeneous Network

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Path and Meta-Path

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How things are uniquely connected/separated?

NORTHEASTERN BARABÁSI NOTRE DAME SOUTH BEND

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EDUCATION GEOGRAPHYPEOPLE

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Meta-Path

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Interesting meta-path is meta-path that best describes how two objects are uniquely related in complex HINs.

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NORTHEASTERN BARABÁSI NOTRE DAME SOUTH BEND

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Education Professor University Geography

NORTHEASTERN BARABÁSI NOTRE DAME SOUTH BEND

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Education Professor University Geography

Education Network Scientist Catholic University Geography

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NORTHEASTERN BARABÁSI NOTRE DAME SOUTH BEND

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Education Professor University Geography

Education Network Scientist Catholic University Geography

EducationNetwork Scientist

who born in Transylvania,1967

Catholic University

at South Bend, IN Geography

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Limitations of State of the Art Meta-Path Related Researches

• Type of meta-labels are limited

• Meta-types do not have complex hierarchy

• Meta-paths are pre-defined manually

• No large scale experiments

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NORTHEASTERN BARABÁSI NOTRE DAME SOUTH BEND

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Meta-Path

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Limitations of State of the Art Meta-Path Related Researches

• Type of meta-labels are limited

• Meta-types do not have complex hierarchy

• Meta-paths are pre-defined manually

• No large scale experiments

Framework that can handle millions of meta-types

Meta-types with complex hierarchy

Meta-path are automatically generated

Experiments are done on Wikipedia (10 million nodes, 740 million edges)

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How to find interesting paths?

• Generate paths

• Rank top k interesting paths using meta-data

• Extract meta-path for searching

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Path Generation

sib(ai, aj) i↵ ai 2 t ^ aj 2 t

8au0 2 A0u, sib(au0 , au) 8av0 2 A0

v, sib(av0 , av)

{~y1, ~y2, . . .} 2 Y ~y = ha1, a2, . . . , a|~y|ii

~x = ha1, a2, . . . , a|~x|ii{~x1, ~x2, . . . , ~xk} 2 X

au

= a1, av = a|~x|, 1 i k

• Generate path set for given points

• Generate sibling path set

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a1 2 A0u, a|~y| 2 A0

v, 1 i k

au, av

ROCKNEWAND

AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

RESEARCHERS

983 Others

BARBARA LISKOV

ANDERS_HEJLSBERG79 Others

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

FACULTY

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

21 Others

JOHN HEISMAN

BARRY SANDERS

JULIUS NIEUWLAND

BARABÁSI204 Others

1075 OthersHAL ABELSON

YX

VASANT HONAVAR

Short Paths

Example: Path generation

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ROCKNENORTHEASTERN NOTRE DAME

WANDBARABÁSI

ROSE BOWLHARVARD

CY YOUNG CARL HUBBELL

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

TD GARDEN LA COLISEUM

Example: Path generation

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Which is the most interesting path?

Path Ranking

• Unordered Ranking~x

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= ha1, a2, . . . , a|~xi|i ~T~x

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= hTa1 , Ta2 , . . . , Ta|~x

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T~xi =

|~xn|[

n=1

Tan

TY =

|Y |[

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|~yi|�1[

n=2

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r(~xi

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~xi \ T

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||T

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Path Ranking

• Ordered Ranking

~x

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= ha1, a2, . . . , a|~xi|i ~T~x

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= hTa1 , Ta2 , . . . , Ta|~x

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p(an, a0n) =

|Tan \ TYn ||TYn |

r(~xi

) = mean

|~xi|n=1(p(an, a

0n

))

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Result: Path Ranking

Qualitative analysis is done with mechanical turkers.

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Result: Path Ranking

Result shows user more like to pick path with lowest or highest similarity.

People pick path with highest score may because they treat best as correct.

DATA MINERS

JIAWEI HAN

DATA MINING SIGKDD JOHANNES GEHRKE

STATISTICIANS

MATHEMATICIANS

PEOPLE

SCHOLARS AND ACADEMICS

DATA MINING

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Example: Extract Meta-Path

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Result: Meta-Path Constraint RWR0 0.24 0.41 0.48

Edgar F. Codd 40.5 18.1 9.0

Johannes Gehrke 28.4 29.4 8.4 2.8

Raghu Ramakrishnan 31.1 6.0 3.6

Anita Borg 5.1 0.6 0.2

Shafi Goldwasser 4.9 0.6

Osmar R. Zaiane 4.8 3.6 1.6

Vint Cerf 4.1 2.4 0.2

Allen Newell 2.0 0.6

ACM 5.1

IEEE 4.9

Yahoo! Research 4.8

Microsoft Research 4.4

Database researchers

Computer Scientist

Questions?