Entity to vector representation from graphs in a computing system

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to be executed in a computing device to cause the computing device to carry out a method of representing a selected entity in a plurality of entities in a computing system, comprising:

• obtaining a graph representation of the plurality of entities, the graph representation having nodes and edges representing a hierarchy of the plurality of entities;
• extracting a set of paths from the graph representation, each path in the set of paths including a series of edge-connected nodes in the graph representation;
• processing the set of paths to generate a vector representation of the selected entity, the vector representation having a plurality of elements representing a context of the selected entity within the graph representation;
• and
• providing the vector representation as input to an application executing in the computing system.

A computing system, comprising:

• a hardware platform comprising a processor and a memory;
• a software platform, implemented by instructions stored in the memory and executed by the processor, the software platform including an entity-to-vector application configured to represent a selected entity of a plurality of entities in the computing system by:
• obtaining a graph representation of the plurality of entities, the graph representation having nodes and edges representing a hierarchy of the plurality of entities;
• extracting a set of paths from the graph representation, each path in the set of paths including a series of edge-connected nodes in the graph representation;
• processing the set of paths to generate a vector representation of the selected entity, the vector representation having a plurality of elements representing a context of the selected entity within the graph representation;
• and
• providing the vector representation as input to an application executing in the computing system.