Deep Learning on Graphs

Deep learning on graphs has become one of the hottest topics in machine learning. The book consists of four parts to best accommodate our readers with diverse backgrounds and purposes of reading. Part 1 introduces basic concepts of graphs and deep learning; Part 2 discusses the most established methods from the basic to advanced settings; Part 3 presents the most typical applications including natural language processing, computer vision, data mining, biochemistry and healthcare; and Part 4 describes advances of methods and applications that tend to be important and promising for future research. The book is self-contained, making it accessible to a broader range of readers including (1) senior undergraduate and graduate students; (2) practitioners and project managers who want to adopt graph neural networks into their products and platforms; and (3) researchers without a computer science background who want to use graph neural networks to advance their disciplines.

'This timely book covers a combination of two active research areas in AI: deep learning and graphs. It serves the pressing need for researchers, practitioners, and students to learn these concepts and algorithms, and apply them in solving real-world problems. Both authors are world-leading experts in this emerging area.' Huan Liu, Arizona State University, 'Deep learning on graphs is an emerging and important area of research. This book by Yao Ma and Jiliang Tang covers not only the foundations, but also the frontiers and applications of graph deep learning. This is a must-read for anyone considering diving into this fascinating area.' Shuiwang Ji, Texas A&M University, 'The first textbook of Deep Learning on Graphs, with systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of graph neural networks, autoencoder on graphs, and their applications in natural language processing, computer vision, data mining, biochemistry and healthcare. A valuable book for anyone to learn this hot theme!' Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 'This book systematically covers the foundations, methodologies, and applications of deep learning on graphs. Especially, it comprehensively introduces graph neural networks and their recent advances. This book is self-contained and nicely structured and thus suitable for readers with different purposes. I highly recommend those who want to conduct research in this area or deploy graph deep learning techniques in practice to read this book.' Charu Aggarwal, Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM and recipient of the W. Wallace McDowell Award

Yao Ma is a PhD student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). He is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award and FAST Fellowship at MSU. He has published papers in top conferences such as WSDM, ICDM, SDM, WWW, IJCAI, SIGIR and KDD, which have been cited hundreds of times. He is the leading organizer and presenter of tutorials on GNNs at AAAI'20, KDD'20 and AAAI'21, which received huge attention and wide acclaim. He has served as Program Committee Members/Reviewers in many well-known conferences and magazines such as AAAI, BigData, IJCAI, TWEB, TKDD and TPAMI. Jiliang Tang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was a research scientist in Yahoo Research. He received the 2020 SIGKDD Rising Star Award, 2020 Distinguished Withrow Research Award, 2019 NSF Career Award, the 2019 IJCAI Early Career Invited Talk and 7 best paper (runnerup) awards. He has organized top data science conferences including KDD, WSDM and SDM, and is associate editor of the TKDD journal. His research has been published in highly ranked journals and top conferences, and received more than 12,000 citations with h-index 55 and extensive media coverage.