The field of graph representation learning has grown at an incredible (and sometimes unwieldy) pace over the past seven years, transforming from a small subset of researchers working on a relatively niche topic to one of the fastest growing sub-areas of deep learning.

This book is my attempt to provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to graph representation learning, including methods for embedding graph data, graph neural networks, and deep generative models of graphs.

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This book is a pre-publication draft of the book that has been published by Morgan & Claypool. The publishers have generously agreed to allow the public hosting of the pre-publication draft, which does not include the publisher's formatting or revisions. The book should be cited as follows:

@article{
author={Hamilton, William L.},
title={Graph Representation Learning},
journal={Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning},
volume={14},
number={3},
pages={1-159},
publisher={Morgan and Claypool}
}

All copyrights held by the author and publishers extend to the pre-publication drafts.

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Feedback, typo corrections, and comments are welcome and should be sent to wlh@cs.mcgill.ca with [GRL BOOK] in the subject line.