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Most real-world networks are incompletely observed. Algorithms that can accurately predict which links are missing can dramatically speedup the collection of network data and improve the validity of network models. Many algorithms now exist…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-05 Amir Ghasemian , Homa Hosseinmardi , Aram Galstyan , Edoardo M. Airoldi , Aaron Clauset

The structure of a social network contains information useful for predicting its evolution. Nodes that are "close" in some sense are more likely to become linked in the future than more distant nodes. We show that structural information can…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Kristina Lerman , Suradej Intagorn , Jeon-Hyung Kang , Rumi Ghosh

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in network analysis. In many applications, notably in genetics, a partially observed network may not contain any negative examples of absent edges, which creates a difficulty for many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-30 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

We introduce and explore a new method for inferring hidden geometric coordinates of nodes in complex networks based on the number of common neighbors between the nodes. We compare this approach to the HyperMap method, which is based only on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Rodrigo Aldecoa , Dmitri Krioukov

Cycles are ubiquitous in various networks such as social, biological, and technological systems, where they play a significant functional and dynamical role. This paper proposes a node similarity measure based on minimal simple cycles,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yang

Link prediction has aroused extensive attention since it can both discover hidden connections and predict future links in the networks. Many unsupervised link prediction algorithms have been proposed to find these links in a variety of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Jingwei Wang , Yunlong Ma , Yun Yuan

Social networks exhibit a complex graph-like structure due to the uncertainty surrounding potential collaborations among participants. Machine learning algorithms possess generic outstanding performance in multiple real-world prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chao Wu , Peng Chen , Baiqiao Yin , Zijuan Lin , Chen Jiang , Di Yu , Changhong Zou , Chunwang Lui

Relational data are ubiquitous in real-world data applications, e.g., in social network analysis or biological modeling, but networks are nearly always incompletely observed. The state-of-the-art for predicting missing links in the hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bisman Singh , Lucy Van Kleunen , Aaron Clauset

In recent years, with the growing number of online social networks, these networks have become one of the best markets for advertising and commerce, so studying these networks is very important. Forecasting new edges in online social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Alireza Eshaghpour , Mostafa Salehi , Vahid Ranjbar

As a fundamental challenge in vast disciplines, link prediction aims to identify potential links in a network based on the incomplete observed information, which has broad applications ranging from uncovering missing protein-protein…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Hao Liao , Mingyang Zhou , Zong-Wen Wei , Rui Mao , Alexandre Vidmer , Yi-Cheng Zhang

In modern energy networks, where operational efficiency and resilience are critical, this study introduces an in-depth analysis from a multiplex network perspective - defined as a network where multiple types of connections exist between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Muhammad Kazim , Harun Pirim , Chau Le , Trung Le , Om Prakash Yadav

Predicting edges in networks is a key problem in social network analysis and involves reasoning about the relationships between nodes based on the structural properties of a network. In particular, link prediction can be used to analyse how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mateusz Tarkowski , Tomasz Michalak , Michael Wooldridge

Node similarity scores are a foundation for machine learning in graphs for clustering, node classification, anomaly detection, and link prediction with applications in biological systems, information networks, and recommender systems.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Christopher Blöcker , Jelena Smiljanić , Ingo Scholtes , Martin Rosvall

As a classical problem in the field of complex networks, link prediction has attracted much attention from researchers, which is of great significance to help us understand the evolution and dynamic development mechanisms of networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-07 Jiating Yu , Ling-Yun Wu

The task of inferring the missing links in a graph based on its current structure is referred to as link prediction. Link prediction methods that are based on pairwise node similarity are well-established approaches in the literature. They…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Md Kamrul Islam , Sabeur Aridhi , Malika Smail-Tabbone

Link prediction is a technique that uses the topological information in a given network to infer the missing links in it. Since past research on link prediction has primarily focused on enhancing performance for given empirical systems,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-11 Min-Woo Ahn , Woo-Sung Jung

Link prediction aims to infer missing links or predicting the future ones based on currently observed partial networks, it is a fundamental problem in network science with tremendous real-world applications. However, conventional link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Weiwei Gu , Fei Gao , Xiaodan Lou , Jiang Zhang

Link prediction is a fundamental problem of data science, which usually calls for unfolding the mechanisms that govern the micro-dynamics of networks. In this regard, using features obtained from network embedding for predicting links has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chuanting Zhang , Ke-ke Shang , Jingping Qiao

A large body of research on link prediction problem is devoted to finding missing links in single-layer (simplex) networks. The proposed link prediction methods compute a similarity measure between unconnected node pairs based on the…

An active research line within the broader field of network science is the one concerning link prediction. Close in scope to network reconstruction, link prediction targets specific connections with the aim of uncovering the missing ones,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Francesca Santucci , Giulio Cimini , Tiziano Squartini