Graph Attention

A Graph Attention Network (GAT) is a neural network architecture that operates on graph-structured data, leveraging masked self-attentional layers to address the shortcomings of prior methods based on graph convolutions or their approximations. By stacking layers in which nodes are able to attend over their neighborhoods’ features, a GAT enables (implicitly) specifying different weights to different nodes in a neighborhood, without requiring any kind of costly matrix operation (such as inversion) or depending on knowing the graph structure upfront. See here for an explanation by DGL.

A general multimodal attention unit for any number of modalities. Graphical models inspire it, i.e., it infers several attention beliefs via aggregated interaction messages.

The GATv2 operator from the “How Attentive are Graph Attention Networks?” paper, which fixes the static attention problem of the standard GAT layer: since the linear layers in the standard GAT are applied right after each other, the ranking of attended nodes is unconditioned on the query node. In contrast, in GATv2, every node can attend to any other node. GATv2 scoring function: $e_{i,j} =\mathbf{a}^{\top}\mathrm{LeakyReLU}\left(\mathbf{W}[\mathbf{h}_i \, \Vert \,\mathbf{h}_j]\right)$

Scalable method to train large scale GNN models via sampling small subgraphs.