GraphNAS: Graph Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
This addresses the need for automated design in graph neural networks, reducing manual effort and domain knowledge requirements, though it is incremental as it applies existing NAS techniques to GNNs.
The authors tackled the problem of manually designing graph neural networks by proposing GraphNAS, an automatic architecture search method using reinforcement learning, which achieved consistently better performance on node classification tasks across multiple datasets.
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been popularly used for analyzing non-Euclidean data such as social network data and biological data. Despite their success, the design of graph neural networks requires a lot of manual work and domain knowledge. In this paper, we propose a Graph Neural Architecture Search method (GraphNAS for short) that enables automatic search of the best graph neural architecture based on reinforcement learning. Specifically, GraphNAS first uses a recurrent network to generate variable-length strings that describe the architectures of graph neural networks, and then trains the recurrent network with reinforcement learning to maximize the expected accuracy of the generated architectures on a validation data set. Extensive experimental results on node classification tasks in both transductive and inductive learning settings demonstrate that GraphNAS can achieve consistently better performance on the Cora, Citeseer, Pubmed citation network, and protein-protein interaction network. On node classification tasks, GraphNAS can design a novel network architecture that rivals the best human-invented architecture in terms of test set accuracy.