Heterogeneous graph attention stops at path endpoints no more: TAHAN groups intermediate nodes by type and leads DBLP and IMDB classification means
Attention aggregation on heterogeneous graphs has long treated node types as static labels, and metapath aggregation can overlook the semantic contribution of intermediate nodes. TAHAN instead collects neighbors along metapath prefixes, merges them across metapaths and levels by node type, then fuses them with within-type attention followed by across-type attention. On DBLP and IMDB node classification its mean Macro-F1 and Micro-F1 exceed the listed baselines, with both IMDB gains significant after Holm correction; on ACM it falls below SeHGNN.