/docs/source/guide/nn-heterograph.rst

.. _guide-nn-heterograph:

3.3 Heterogeneous GraphConv Module
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:class:`~dgl.nn.pytorch.HeteroGraphConv`
is a module-level encapsulation to run DGL NN module on heterogeneous
graphs. The implementation logic is the same as message passing level API
:meth:`~dgl.DGLGraph.multi_update_all`:

-  DGL NN module within each relation :math:`r`.
-  Reduction that merges the results on the same node type from multiple
   relations.

This can be formulated as:

.. math::  h_{dst}^{(l+1)} = \underset{r\in\mathcal{R}, r_{dst}=dst}{AGG} (f_r(g_r, h_{r_{src}}^l, h_{r_{dst}}^l))

where :math:`f_r` is the NN module for each relation :math:`r`,
:math:`AGG` is the aggregation function.

HeteroGraphConv implementation logic:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. code::

    import torch.nn as nn

    class HeteroGraphConv(nn.Module):
        def __init__(self, mods, aggregate='sum'):
            super(HeteroGraphConv, self).__init__()
            self.mods = nn.ModuleDict(mods)
            if isinstance(aggregate, str):
                # An internal function to get common aggregation functions
                self.agg_fn = get_aggregate_fn(aggregate)
            else:
                self.agg_fn = aggregate

The heterograph convolution takes a dictionary ``mods`` that maps each
relation to an nn module and sets the function that aggregates results on
the same node type from multiple relations.

.. code::

    def forward(self, g, inputs, mod_args=None, mod_kwargs=None):
        if mod_args is None:
            mod_args = {}
        if mod_kwargs is None:
            mod_kwargs = {}
        outputs = {nty : [] for nty in g.dsttypes}

Besides input graph and input tensors, the ``forward()`` function takes
two additional dictionary parameters ``mod_args`` and ``mod_kwargs``.
These two dictionaries have the same keys as ``self.mods``. They are
used as customized parameters when calling their corresponding NN
modules in ``self.mods`` for different types of relations.

An output dictionary is created to hold output tensor for each
destination type ``nty`` . Note that the value for each ``nty`` is a
list, indicating a single node type may get multiple outputs if more
than one relations have ``nty`` as the destination type. ``HeteroGraphConv``
will perform a further aggregation on the lists.

.. code::

          if g.is_block:
              src_inputs = inputs
              dst_inputs = {k: v[:g.number_of_dst_nodes(k)] for k, v in inputs.items()}
          else:
              src_inputs = dst_inputs = inputs

          for stype, etype, dtype in g.canonical_etypes:
              rel_graph = g[stype, etype, dtype]
              if rel_graph.num_edges() == 0:
                  continue
              if stype not in src_inputs or dtype not in dst_inputs:
                  continue
              dstdata = self.mods[etype](
                  rel_graph,
                  (src_inputs[stype], dst_inputs[dtype]),
                  *mod_args.get(etype, ()),
                  **mod_kwargs.get(etype, {}))
              outputs[dtype].append(dstdata)

The input ``g`` can be a heterogeneous graph or a subgraph block from a
heterogeneous graph. As in ordinary NN module, the ``forward()``
function need to handle different input graph types separately.

Each relation is represented as a ``canonical_etype``, which is
``(stype, etype, dtype)``. Using ``canonical_etype`` as the key, one can
extract out a bipartite graph ``rel_graph``. For bipartite graph, the
input feature will be organized as a tuple
``(src_inputs[stype], dst_inputs[dtype])``. The NN module for each
relation is called and the output is saved. To avoid unnecessary call,
relations with no edges or no nodes with the src type will be skipped.

.. code::

        rsts = {}
        for nty, alist in outputs.items():
            if len(alist) != 0:
                rsts[nty] = self.agg_fn(alist, nty)

Finally, the results on the same destination node type from multiple
relations are aggregated using ``self.agg_fn`` function. Examples can
be found in the API Doc for :class:`~dgl.nn.pytorch.HeteroGraphConv`.