  Data from many real-world applications can be naturally represented by
multi-view networks where the different views encode different types of
relationships (e.g., friendship, shared interests in music, etc.) between
real-world individuals or entities. There is an urgent need for methods to
obtain low-dimensional, information preserving and typically nonlinear
embeddings of such multi-view networks. However, most of the work on multi-view
learning focuses on data that lack a network structure, and most of the work on
network embeddings has focused primarily on single-view networks. Against this
background, we consider the multi-view network representation learning problem,
i.e., the problem of constructing low-dimensional information preserving
embeddings of multi-view networks. Specifically, we investigate a novel
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework for Multi-View Network
Embedding, namely MEGAN, aimed at preserving the information from the
individual network views, while accounting for connectivity across (and hence
complementarity of and correlations between) different views. The results of
our experiments on two real-world multi-view data sets show that the embeddings
obtained using MEGAN outperform the state-of-the-art methods on node
classification, link prediction and visualization tasks.
