Abstract
In this paper, we propose graph attention based network representation (GANR) which utilizes the graph attention architecture and takes graph structure as the supervised learning information. Compared with node classification based representations, GANR can be used to learn representation for any given graph. GANR is not only capable of learning high quality node representations that achieve a competitive performance on link prediction, network visualization and node classification but it can also extract meaningful attention weights that can be applied in node centrality measuring task. GANR can identify the leading venture capital investors, discover highly cited papers and find the most influential nodes in Susceptible Infected Recovered Model. We conclude that link structures in graphs are not limited on predicting linkage itself, it is capable of revealing latent node information in an unsupervised way once a appropriate learning algorithm, like GANR, is provided.