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Predicting missing links in real networks is an important problem in network science to which considerable efforts have been devoted, giving as a result a vast plethora of link prediction methods in the literature. In this work, we take a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillermo García-Pérez , Roya Aliakbarisani , Abdorasoul Ghasemi , M. Ángeles Serrano

Many algorithms have been proposed to predict missing links in a variety of real networks. These studies focus on mainly both accuracy and efficiency of these algorithms. However, little attention is paid to their robustness against either…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-26 Liang Wang , Ke Hu , Yi Tang

In principle, the rules of links formation of a network model can be considered as a kind of link prediction algorithm. By revisiting the preferential attachment mechanism for generating a scale-free network, here we propose a class of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-09 Ke Hu , Ju Xiang , Wanchun Yang , Xiaoke Xu , Yi Tang

Link prediction -- to identify potential missing or spurious links in temporal network data -- has typically been based on local structures, ignoring long-term temporal effects. In this chapter, we propose link-prediction methods based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-27 Yueran Duan , Qing Guan , Petter Holme , Yacheng Yang , Wei Guan

Link prediction aims to uncover the underlying relationship behind networks, which could be utilized to predict the missing edges or identify the spurious edges, and attracts much attention from various fields. The key issue of link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Tong Wang , Ming-yang Zhou , Zhong-qian Fu

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in social network analysis. A common set of techniques for link prediction rely on similarity metrics which use the topology of the observed subnetwork to quantify the likelihood of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kai Zhou , Tomasz P. Michalak , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Link prediction, a foundational task in complex network analysis, has extensive applications in critical scenarios such as social recommendation, drug target discovery, and knowledge graph completion. However, existing evaluations of…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-12-30 Yilin Bi , Junhao Bian , Shuyan Wan , Shuaijia Wang , Tao Zhou

Inspired by practical importance of social networks, economic networks, biological networks and so on, studies on large and complex networks have attracted a surge of attentions in the recent years. Link prediction is a fundamental issue to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Liming Pan , Hong Cheng , Tao Zhou

Link prediction is a paradigmatic problem in network science, which aims at estimating the existence likelihoods of nonobserved links, based on known topology. After a brief introduction of the standard problem and metrics of link…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-12-14 Tao Zhou

Many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in a partially observed network. Examples include Facebook friendship suggestions, consumer-product recommendations, and the identification of hidden interactions between actors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xi Chen , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

In real-world complex networks, understanding the dynamics of their evolution has been of great interest to the scientific community. Predicting future links is an essential task of social network analysis as the addition or removal of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

We propose a non-parametric link prediction algorithm for a sequence of graph snapshots over time. The model predicts links based on the features of its endpoints, as well as those of the local neighborhood around the endpoints. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Purnamrita Sarkar , Deepayan Chakrabarti , Michael Jordan

Link prediction in complex networks has attracted considerable attention from interdisciplinary research communities, due to its ubiquitous applications in biological networks, social networks, transportation networks, telecommunication…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ece C. Mutlu , Toktam A. Oghaz , Amirarsalan Rajabi , Ivan Garibay

The problem of node-similarity in networks has motivated a plethora of such measures between node-pairs, which make use of the underlying graph structure. However, higher-order relations cannot be losslessly captured by mere graphs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Govind Sharma , Paarth Gupta , M. Narasihma Murty

Link prediction is a significant and challenging task in network science. The majority of known methods are similarity-based, which assign similarity indices for node pairs and assume that two nodes of larger similarity have higher…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-29 Tao Zhou , Yan-Li Lee , Guannan Wang

Link prediction has been widely studied as an important research direction. Higher-order link prediction has gained especially significant attention since higher-order networks provide a more accurate description of real-world complex…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Bo Liu , Rongmei Yang , Linyuan Lü

Recovering and reconstructing networks by accurately identifying missing and unreliable links is a vital task in the domain of network analysis and mining. In this article, by studying a specific local structure, namely a degree block…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Zhen Liu , Weike Dong , Yan Fu

Link prediction is a key problem for network-structured data. Link prediction heuristics use some score functions, such as common neighbors and Katz index, to measure the likelihood of links. They have obtained wide practical uses due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Muhan Zhang , Yixin Chen

Link prediction in complex networks has attracted increasing attention from both physical and computer science communities. The algorithms can be used to extract missing information, identify spurious interactions, evaluate network evolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Linyuan Lu , Tao Zhou

Link prediction is a paradigmatic and challenging problem in network science, which aims to predict missing links, future links and temporal links based on known topology. Along with the increasing number of link prediction algorithms, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Zhou