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Explains destination indicators, transposition, tensor shapes, multiplication, and normalization, but defers general encoding strategies.

One-hot encoding

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A representation technique that encodes a categorical value as a vector with one active entry and all other entries inactive.

One-hot encoding represents each category with a vector containing one active entry and inactive entries elsewhere. In graph encoders, it records which receiving node each directed edge targets. section 6.4.1

A practical edge-to-node aggregation pipeline is:

Create one category position for every node and mark each edge's receiving-node position. section 6.4.1
Transpose the encoding so its shape becomes number of nodes by number of edges. section 6.4.1
Multiply the fixed matrix by edge embeddings to aggregate incoming messages into node embeddings, then normalize by possible nodes. section 6.4.1

Three-node fully connected graph

Six directed edges connect every node to the other two. The one-hot incoming-edge matrix marks each edge's destination, allowing edge embeddings to become three node embeddings.

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Related concepts

labelincludes · A label is a value or annotation associated with an item that identifies its target category, outcome, or reference answer for learning or evaluation.
categorical datauses · Categorical data consists of values representing membership in a discrete set of named or ordered categories rather than measured numerical magnitudes.
binary featureproduces · A binary feature is an input variable whose value is restricted to exactly two alternatives.
categorical encodingkind of · Categorical encoding transforms discrete category values into numerical representations, such as separate binary indicators or vectors with one active position per category.
indicator variableproduces · An indicator variable is a binary-valued variable representing whether a specified condition or category applies.
label encodingalternative to · Label encoding is a categorical-data transformation that maps each category to a numerical code, which may imply an ordering among categories.

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