GDA-HIN: A Generalized Domain Adaptive Model across Heterogeneous Information Networks
This work is significant for researchers and practitioners working with domain adaptation in complex, real-world heterogeneous graph data, where private node types are common.
The paper addresses domain adaptation across heterogeneous information networks (HINs) that contain both shared and private node types, a challenge not fully addressed by prior work. The proposed GDA-HIN model aligns distributions of identical-type nodes and edges while leveraging different-type nodes and edges, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in experiments.
Domain adaptation using graph-structured networks learns label-discriminative and network-invariant node embeddings by sharing graph parameters. Most existing works focus on domain adaptation of homogeneous networks. The few works that study heterogeneous cases only consider shared node types but ignore private node types in individual networks. However, for given source and target heterogeneous networks, they generally contain shared and private node types, where private types bring an extra challenge for graph domain adaptation. In this paper, we investigate Heterogeneous Information Networks (HINs) with both shared and private node types and propose a Generalized Domain Adaptive model across HINs (GDA-HIN) to handle the domain shift between them. GDA-HIN can not only align the distribution of identical-type nodes and edges in two HINs but also make full use of different-type nodes and edges to improve the performance of knowledge transfer. Extensive experiments on several datasets demonstrate that GDA-HIN can outperform state-of-the-art methods in various domain adaptation tasks across heterogeneous networks.