Graph convolutional network (GCN) has been successfully applied to many
graph-based applications; however, training a large-scale GCN remains
challenging. Current SGD-based algorithms suffer from either a high
computational cost that exponentially grows with number of GCN layers, or a
large space requirement for keeping the entire graph and the embedding of each
node in memory. In this paper, we propose Cluster-GCN, a novel GCN algorithm
that is suitable for SGD-based training by exploiting the graph clustering
structure. Cluster-GCN works as the following: at each step, it samples a block
of nodes that associate with a dense subgraph identified by a graph clustering
algorithm, and restricts the neighborhood search within this subgraph. This
simple but effective strategy leads to significantly improved memory and
computational efficiency while being able to achieve comparable test accuracy
with previous algorithms. To test the scalability of our algorithm, we create a
new Amazon2M data with 2 million nodes and 61 million edges which is more than
5 times larger than the previous largest publicly available dataset (Reddit).
For training a 3-layer GCN on this data, Cluster-GCN is faster than the
previous state-of-the-art VR-GCN (1523 seconds vs 1961 seconds) and using much
less memory (2.2GB vs 11.2GB). Furthermore, for training 4 layer GCN on this
data, our algorithm can finish in around 36 minutes while all the existing GCN
training algorithms fail to train due to the out-of-memory issue. Furthermore,
Cluster-GCN allows us to train much deeper GCN without much time and memory
overhead, which leads to improved prediction accuracy---using a 5-layer
Cluster-GCN, we achieve state-of-the-art test F1 score 99.36 on the PPI
dataset, while the previous best result was 98.71 by [16]. Our codes are
publicly available at
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本文介绍了 Cluster-GCN 算法，通过利用图聚类结构，将邻域搜索限制在一个由图聚类算法确定的密集子图中，从而实现大规模 GCN 的 SGD 训练，在保证可比性测试精度的情况下显著提高了内存和计算效率。