In the autoregressive approach, we assume that edges are generated sequentially and that the likelihood of each edge can be conditioned on the edges that have been previously generated.

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Modeling Edge Dependencies

There is a strong limitation of assuming the edges are independent because real-world graphs exhibit many complex dependencies between edges.

For example, the tendency for real-world graphs to have high clustering coefficients is difficult to capture in an edge-independent model

Hence, dependency is a solution to alleviate this issue while maintaining tractability

Why edges are dependent

What's new: conditionality

L: denote the lower-triangular portion of the adjacency matrix A

L[v1, :] denote the row of L corresponding to node v1

assume that the rows of L are indexed by nodes v1, ..., v|V|

due to the lower-triangular nature of L, we will have that L[vi, vj] = 0, ∀j > i, meaning that we only need to be concerned with generating the first i entries for any row L[vi, :] because the rest will be zeros

when we generate row L[vi, :], we condition on all the previous generated rows L[vj, :] with j < i

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