A 2 CMHNE: Attention-Aware Collaborative Multimodal Heterogeneous Network Embedding

Network representation learning is playing an important role in network analysis due to its effectiveness in a variety of applications. However, most existing network embedding models focus on homogeneous networks and neglect the diverse properties such as different types of network structures and associated multimedia content information. In this article, we learn node representations for multimodal heterogeneous networks, which contain multiple types of nodes and/or links as well as multimodal content such as texts and images. We propose a novel attention-aware collaborative multimodal heterogeneous network embedding method (A2CMHNE), where an attention-based collaborative representation learning approach is proposed to promote the collaboration of structure-based embedding and content-based embedding, and generate the robust node representation by introducing an attention mechanism that enables informative embedding integration. In experiments, we compare our model with existing network embedding models on two real-world datasets. Our method leads to dramatic improvements in performance by 5%, and 9% compared with five state-of-the-art embedding methods on one benchmark (M10 Dataset), and on a multi-modal heterogeneous network dataset (WeChat dataset) for node classification, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method on both node classification and link prediction tasks.