Graph-Aware Language Model Pre-Training on a Large Graph Corpus Can Help
  Multiple Graph Applications
Han Xie Da Zheng Jun Ma Houyu Zhang Vassilis N. Ioannidis Xiang Song Qing Ping Sheng Wang Carl Yang Yi Xu Belinda Zeng Trishul Chilimbi
Model pre-training on large text corpora has been demonstrated effective for
various downstream applications in the NLP domain. In the graph mining domain,
a similar analogy can be drawn for pre-training graph models on large graphs in
the hope of benefiting downstream graph applications, which has also been
explored by several recent studies. However, no existing study has ever
investigated the pre-training of text plus graph models on large heterogeneous
graphs with abundant textual information (a.k.a. large graph corpora) and then
fine-tuning the model on different related downstream applications with
different graph schemas. To address this problem, we propose a framework of
graph-aware language model pre-training (GALM) on a large graph corpus, which
incorporates large language models and graph neural networks, and a variety of
fine-tuning methods on downstream applications. We conduct extensive
experiments on Amazon's real internal datasets and large public datasets.
Comprehensive empirical results and in-depth analysis demonstrate the
effectiveness of our proposed methods along with lessons learned.