On the stability of polynomial spectral graph filters

Spectral graph filters are a key component in state-of-the-art machine learning models used for graph-based learning, such as graph neural networks. For certain tasks stability of the spectral graph filters is important for learning suitable representations. Understanding the type of structural pert...

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Main Authors: Kenlay, H, Thanou, D, Dong, X
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020
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description Spectral graph filters are a key component in state-of-the-art machine learning models used for graph-based learning, such as graph neural networks. For certain tasks stability of the spectral graph filters is important for learning suitable representations. Understanding the type of structural perturbation to which spectral graph filters are robust lets us reason as to when we may expect them to be well suited to a learning task. In this work, we first prove that polynomial graph filters are stable with respect to the change in the normalised graph Laplacian matrix. We then show empirically that properties of a structural perturbation, specifically the relative locality of the edges removed in a binary graph, effect the change in the normalised graph Laplacian. Together, our results have implications on designing robust graph filters and representations under structural perturbation.
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