Critique 3

This critique will compare two papers listed below on unsupervised graph representation learning. Your critique should be no more than 1500 words. Please submit your critique as a PDF via Canvas. The papers are:

  1. node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks
  2. Variational Graph Auto-Encoders

Your critique should cover each of the following points. Please dedicate at least one section to each of these points.

1. What is the general problem area these methods are addressing?

2. Briefly describe each method.

3. What novel results and insights were obtained using these methods?

4. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each method?

Because the second paper is short, you may need to draw upon the discussion during lecture to elaborate on the strengths and weaknesses of this method.