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Graph Machine Learning

By : Claudio Stamile, Aldo Marzullo, Enrico Deusebio
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Book Image

Graph Machine Learning

5 (1)
By: Claudio Stamile, Aldo Marzullo, Enrico Deusebio

Overview of this book

Graph Machine Learning will introduce you to a set of tools used for processing network data and leveraging the power of the relation between entities that can be used for predictive, modeling, and analytics tasks. The first chapters will introduce you to graph theory and graph machine learning, as well as the scope of their potential use. You’ll then learn all you need to know about the main machine learning models for graph representation learning: their purpose, how they work, and how they can be implemented in a wide range of supervised and unsupervised learning applications. You'll build a complete machine learning pipeline, including data processing, model training, and prediction in order to exploit the full potential of graph data. After covering the basics, you’ll be taken through real-world scenarios such as extracting data from social networks, text analytics, and natural language processing (NLP) using graphs and financial transaction systems on graphs. You’ll also learn how to build and scale out data-driven applications for graph analytics to store, query, and process network information, and explore the latest trends on graphs. By the end of this machine learning book, you will have learned essential concepts of graph theory and all the algorithms and techniques used to build successful machine learning applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Introduction to Graph Machine Learning
4
Section 2 – Machine Learning on Graphs
8
Section 3 – Advanced Applications of Graph Machine Learning

Chapter 9: Building a Data-Driven Graph-Powered Application

So far, we have provided you with both theoretical and practical ideas to allow you to design and implement machine learning models that leverage graph structures. Besides designing the algorithm, it is often very important to embed the modeling/analytical pipeline into a robust and reliable end-to-end application. This is especially true in industrial applications, where the end goal is usually to design and implement production systems that support data-driven decisions and/or provide users with timely information. However, creating a data-driven application that resorts to graph representation/modeling is indeed a challenging task that requires a proper design that is a lot more complicated than simply importing networkx. This chapter aims to provide you with a general overview of the key concepts and frameworks that are used when building graph-based, scalable, data-driven applications.

We will start by providing an...