Graph Classification via Adjacency Matrix Diagonal Concentration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing graph classification methods struggle to effectively capture large multi-vertex subgraph structures and deep features from implicit correlation structures at both vertex and edge levels, leading to low accuracy and high computational complexity due to limitations in window size and feature representation.

Innovation Solution

The system concentrates connection information elements in the adjacency matrix into a diagonal region, allowing for the extraction of subgraph structures using a fixed-size window, reducing computational complexity and enabling the capture of large subgraphs and deep features through a connection information regularization method and stacked convolutional neural networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Length of stationary object

If conventional graph classification methods use fixed window size to extract subgraph features, then the method is computationally feasible, but it cannot capture large multi-vertex subgraph structures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewindow sizeVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of stationary objectVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the graph extraction process into multiple stages with different window sizes. Small window sizes are used for initial feature extraction, while larger window sizes are applied in subsequent stages to capture larger subgraph structures. This multi-scale segmentation approach enables the system to handle both local detailed features and global structural patterns without overwhelming computational complexity at any single stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a hierarchical dimension to the feature extraction process by organizing features across multiple scales and levels. Instead of using a single window size, the system creates a multi-dimensional feature space where features are extracted at different resolution levels, allowing large subgraphs to be captured by combining information from multiple smaller window-based extractions across different hierarchical levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If the window size is increased to capture large subgraphs, then more structural information is obtained, but the computational complexity increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeature representation accuracyVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the computational task into segments performed at different hierarchical levels. Rather than computing features over the entire graph at once (which would be computationally expensive), the system segments the computation into local neighborhood operations followed by progressive aggregation, reducing the computational burden while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary feature extraction using small window sizes to capture local patterns first. These pre-extracted features are then aggregated and used as input for subsequent stages with larger effective window sizes. This preliminary action at smaller scales reduces the dimensionality of the problem for later stages, decreasing overall computational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If conventional methods use small fixed window sizes for feature extraction, then computational complexity is reduced, but deep features from implicit correlation structures cannot be captured

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomputational efficiencyVSAvoiddeep feature capture
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a nested hierarchical structure where small-window features are nested within larger-context features, which are in turn nested within even larger structural patterns. Each level of the hierarchy captures features at its appropriate scale, with deeper levels capturing implicit correlation structures that span multiple vertices. This nested arrangement allows efficient local computation at each level while progressively building up to capture deep structural features.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent maintains continuous feature extraction across multiple hierarchical levels rather than performing discrete independent extractions. The feature extraction process continues progressively from local to global scales, with each stage building upon and refining features from previous stages, ensuring that deep features are captured through continuous refinement rather than lost in discrete computational steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

4Adaptability or versatility

If the graph dimension is increased to represent more vertices, then more complex structures are represented, but the data becomes more difficult to process

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegraph structure representationVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments high-dimensional graph data into lower-dimensional local neighborhoods that can be processed independently at each hierarchical level. By dividing the high-dimensional processing task into segments operating on local subgraphs, the system can represent complex global structures while keeping individual processing steps manageable in dimensionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the high-dimensional graph processing problem by introducing a hierarchical dimension. Instead of processing all vertices simultaneously in a single high-dimensional space, the system organizes processing across multiple hierarchical levels, effectively adding a hierarchical dimension that reduces the computational dimensionality at each level while preserving the ability to represent complex structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11461581B2System and method of connection information regularization, graph feature extraction and graph classification based on adjacency matrix
Publication Date: 2022.10.04 ZHEJIANG UNIV
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AI summary

Disclosed is system and method of connection information regularization, graph feature extraction and graph classification based on adjacency matrix. By concentrating the connection information elements in the adjacency matrix into a specific diagonal region of the adjacency matrix in order to reduce the non-connection information elements in advance. The subgraph structure of the graph is further extracted along the diagonal direction using the filter matrix. Then a stacked convolutional neural network is used to extract a larger subgraph structure. On the one hand, it greatly reduces the amount of computation and complexity, solving the limitations of the computational complexity and the limitations of window size. And on the other hand, it can capture large subgraph structure through a small window, as well as deep features from the implicit correlation structures at both vertex and edge level, which improves the accuracy and speed of the graph classification.