Predicting properties of nodes in a graph is an important problem with
applications in a variety of domains. Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning
(SSL) methods aim to address this problem by labeling a small subset of the
nodes as seeds and then utilizing the graph structure to predict label scores
for the rest of the nodes in the graph. Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks
(GCNs) have achieved impressive performance on the graph-based SSL task. In
addition to label scores, it is also desirable to have confidence scores
associated with them. Unfortunately, confidence estimation in the context of
GCN has not been previously explored. We fill this important gap in this paper
and propose ConfGCN, which estimates labels scores along with their confidences
jointly in GCN-based setting. ConfGCN uses these estimated confidences to
determine the influence of one node on another during neighborhood aggregation,
thereby acquiring anisotropic capabilities. Through extensive analysis and
experiments on standard benchmarks, we find that ConfGCN is able to outperform
state-of-the-art baselines. We have made ConfGCN's source code available to
encourage reproducible research.

本文提出了 ConfGCN，并使用其估计的置信度来在邻域聚合期间检测节点之间的相互影响，从而获得了各向异性的能力，从而在标准基准测试中超过了现有技术水平的基线，以解决基于 GCN 的设置下缺乏置信度评估的问题。