Few-shot node classification via local adaptive discriminant structure learning

Zhe Xue, Junping Du, Xin Xu, Xiangbin Liu, Junfu Wang, Feifei Kou

Abstract: Node classification has a wide range of application scenarios such as citation analysis and social network analysis. In many real-world attributed networks, a large portion of classes only contain limited labeled nodes. Most of the existing node classification methods cannot be used for few-shot node classification. To train the model effectively and improve the robustness and reliability of the model with scarce labeled samples, in this paper, we propose a local adaptive discriminant structure learning (LADSL) method for few-shot node classification. LADSL aims to properly represent the nodes in the attributed graphs and learn a metric space with a strong discriminating power by reducing the intra-class variations and enlarging inter-class differences. Extensive experiments conducted on various attributed networks datasets demonstrate that LADSL is superior to the other methods on few-shot node classification task.