Metric Distribution to Vector: Constructing Data Representation via Broad-Scale Discrepancies
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Graph embedding provides a feasible methodology to conduct pattern classification for graph-structured data by mapping each data into the vectorial space. Various pioneering works are essentially coding method that concentrates on a vectorial representation about the inner properties of a graph in terms of the topological constitution, node attributions, link relations, etc. However, the classification for each targeted data is a qualitative issue based on understanding the overall discrepancies within the dataset scale. From the statistical point of view, these discrepancies manifest a metric distribution over the dataset scale if the distance metric is adopted to measure the pairwise similarity or dissimilarity. Therefore, we present a novel embedding strategy named 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧2𝐯𝐞𝐜 to extract such distribution characteristics into the vectorial representation for each data. We demonstrate the application and effectiveness of our representation method in the supervised prediction tasks on extensive real-world structural graph datasets. The results have gained some unexpected increases compared with a surge of baselines on all the datasets, even if we take the lightweight models as classifiers. Moreover, the proposed methods also conducted experiments in Few-Shot classification scenarios, and the results still show attractive discrimination in rare training samples based inference.
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