Variational Graph Auto Encoders
We introduce the variational graph auto encoder (VGAE) a framework for unsupervised learning on graph structured data based on the variational auto encoder (VAE) This model makes use of latent variables and is capable of learning interpretable latent representations for undirected graphs. We demonstrate this model using a graph convolutional network (GCN) encoder and a simple inner product decoder. Our model achieves competitive results on a link prediction task in citation networks. In contrast to most existing models for unsupervised learning on graph structured data and link prediction, our model can naturally incorporate node features, which significantly improves predictive performance on a number of benchmark datasets.
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