Semi-supervised Learning on Directed Graphs

Given a directed graph in which some of the nodes are labeled, we investigate the question of how to exploit the link structure of the graph to infer the labels of the remaining unlabeled nodes. To that extent we propose a regularization framework for functions defined over nodes of a directed graph that forces the classification function to change slowly on densely linked subgraphs. A powerful, yet computationally simple classification algorithm is derived within the proposed framework. The experimental evaluation on real-world Web classification problems demonstrates encouraging results that validate our approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: Dengyong Zhou, Bernhard Schölkopf, Thomas Hofmann
• Keywords: Directed Graph, NIPS 2004, NIPS 2007, Simple Classification Algorithm, Unlabeled Nodes