EvolveGCN

This repository contains the code for EvolveGCN: Evolving Graph Convolutional Networks for Dynamic Graphs, published in AAAI 2020.

Data

7 datasets were used in the paper:

• stochastic block model: See the 'data' folder. Untar the file for use.
• bitcoin OTC: Downloadable from http://snap.stanford.edu/data/soc-sign-bitcoin-otc.html
• bitcoin Alpha: Downloadable from http://snap.stanford.edu/data/soc-sign-bitcoin-alpha.html
• uc_irvine: Downloadable from http://konect.uni-koblenz.de/networks/opsahl-ucsocial
• autonomous systems: Downloadable from http://snap.stanford.edu/data/as-733.html
• reddit hyperlink network: Downloadable from http://snap.stanford.edu/data/soc-RedditHyperlinks.html
• elliptic: A preprocessed version of https://www.kaggle.com/ellipticco/elliptic-data-set is provided in the following link: https://ibm.box.com/s/j04m8lwoqktjixke2gj7lgllrvvdidme. Untar the file in the 'data' folder for use.

Update on elliptic: The box link is no longer valid. Please see the instruction to manually prepare the preprocessed version.

For downloaded data sets please place them in the 'data' folder.

Requirements

• PyTorch 1.0 or higher
• Python 3.6

Set up with Docker

This docker file describes a container that allows you to run the experiments on any Unix-based machine. GPU availability is recommended to train the models. Otherwise, set the use_cuda flag in parameters.yaml to false.

Requirements

• install docker
• install nvidia drivers

Installation

1. Build the image

From this folder you can create the image

sudo docker build -t gcn_env:latest docker-set-up/

2. Start the container

Start the container

sudo docker run -ti  --gpus all -v $(pwd):/evolveGCN  gcn_env:latest

This will start a bash session in the container.

Usage

Set --config_file with a yaml configuration file to run the experiments. For example:

python run_exp.py --config_file ./experiments/parameters_example.yaml

Most of the parameters in the yaml configuration file are self-explanatory. For hyperparameters tuning, it is possible to set a certain parameter to 'None' and then set a min and max value. Then, each run will pick a random value within the boundaries (for example: 'learning_rate', 'learning_rate_min' and 'learning_rate_max'). The 'experiments' folder contains one file for each result reported in the EvolveGCN paper.

Setting 'use_logfile' to True in the configuration yaml will output a file, in the 'log' directory, containing information about the experiment and validation metrics for the various epochs. The file could be manually analyzed, alternatively 'log_analyzer.py' can be used to automatically parse a log file and to retrieve the evaluation metrics at the best validation epoch. For example:

python log_analyzer.py log/filename.log

Reference

[1] Aldo Pareja, Giacomo Domeniconi, Jie Chen, Tengfei Ma, Toyotaro Suzumura, Hiroki Kanezashi, Tim Kaler, Tao B. Schardl, and Charles E. Leiserson. EvolveGCN: Evolving Graph Convolutional Networks for Dynamic Graphs. AAAI 2020.

BibTeX entry

Please cite the paper if you use this code in your work:

@INPROCEEDINGS{egcn,
  AUTHOR = {Aldo Pareja and Giacomo Domeniconi and Jie Chen and Tengfei Ma and Toyotaro Suzumura and Hiroki Kanezashi and Tim Kaler and Tao B. Schardl and Charles E. Leiserson},
  TITLE = {{EvolveGCN}: Evolving Graph Convolutional Networks for Dynamic Graphs},
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  YEAR = {2020},
}