Unified Graph Neural Networks Pre-training for Multi-domain Graphs

Abstract

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven effective and typically benefit from pre-training on accessible graphs to enhance performance on tasks with limited labeled data. However, existing GNNs are constrained by the ``one-domain-one-model'' limitation, which restricts their effectiveness across diverse graph domains. In this paper, we tackle this problem by developing a method called Multi-Domain Pre-training for a Unified GNN Model (MDP-GNN). This method is based on the philosophical notion that everything is interconnected, suggesting that a latent meta-domain exists to encompass the diverse graph domains and their interconnections. MDP-GNN seeks to identify and utilize this meta-domain to train a unified GNN model through three core strategies. Firstly, it integrates node feature semantics from different domains to create unified representations. Secondly, it employs a bi-level learning strategy to build a domain-synthesized network that identifies latent connections to facilitate cross-domain knowledge transfer. Thirdly, it uses Wasserstein distance to map diverse domains into the common meta-domain for graph distribution alignment. We validate the effectiveness of MDP-GNN through theoretical analysis and extensive experiments on four real-world graph datasets, showing its superiority in enhancing GNN performance across diverse domains.