Learning Embedding for Signed Network in Social Media With Global Information

Signed networks contain nodes connected by positive and negative signed links. Signed network representation learning concentrates on learning the low-dimensional representations of these nodes, which facilitates downstream tasks such as link prediction using general data mining framework. However, most signed network embedding (SiNE) approaches neglect global information in the networks, limiting the capacity to learn genuine signed graph topology. To overcome this limitation, a deep graph neural network (GNN) framework SiG to learn SiNE with global information is proposed. To be more explicit, a hierarchical pooling mechanism is developed to encode the high-level features of the networks. Moreover, a graph convolution layer is introduced to aggregate both positive and negative information from neighbor nodes, and the concatenation of two parts generates the final embedding of nodes. Extensive experiments on four large real-world signed network datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and excellence of the proposed method.