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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

In social networks, link prediction predicts missing links in current networks and new or dissolution links in future networks, is important for mining and analyzing the evolution of social networks. In the past decade, many works have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Peng Wang , Baowen Xu , Yurong Wu , Xiaoyu Zhou

Link prediction is a popular research area with important applications in a variety of disciplines, including biology, social science, security, and medicine. The fundamental requirement of link prediction is the accurate and effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Yang Yang , Ryan N. Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla

The problem of missing link prediction in complex networks has attracted much attention recently. Two difficulties in link prediction are the sparsity and huge size of the target networks. Therefore, the design of an efficient and effective…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-04-23 Weiping Liu , Linyuan Lu

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

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Link prediction is an elemental challenge in network science, which has already found applications in guiding laboratorial experiments, digging out drug targets, recommending friends in social networks, probing mechanisms in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-26 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Yan-Li Lee , Ye Yuan , Tao Zhou

Link prediction is an open problem in the complex network, which attracts much research interest currently. However, little attention has been paid to the relation between network structure and the performance of prediction methods. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Xu Feng , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

The problem of link prediction has attracted considerable recent attention from various domains such as sociology, anthropology, information science, and computer sciences. A link prediction algorithm is proposed based on link similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Maosheng Jiang , Yonxiang Chen , Ling Chen

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

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

The problem of link prediction, predicting if two nodes in a network have a connection between them, is a theoretical problem with numerous field-agnostic real-world applications. This paper investigates the efficacy of three classes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Vivian Feng

Link prediction is a common problem in network science that transects many disciplines. The goal is to forecast the appearance of new links or to find links missing in the network. Typical methods for link prediction use the topology of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Huda Nassar , Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich

Inference and prediction are fundamental to the study of complex systems, where network data are often incomplete, inaccurate or obtained indirectly. In this paper, we review recent advances in network sampling and comparison, as well as in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco A. Rodrigues

Complex networks are graphs representing real-life systems that exhibit unique characteristics not found in purely regular or completely random graphs. The study of such systems is vital but challenging due to the complexity of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Hafida Benhidour , Lama Almeshkhas , Said Kerrache

Topological properties of networks are widely applied to study the link-prediction problem recently. Common Neighbors, for example, is a natural yet efficient framework. Many variants of Common Neighbors have been thus proposed to further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Fei Tan , Yongxiang Xia , Boyao Zhu

Link prediction (LP) is an important problem in network science and machine learning research. The state-of-the-art LP methods are usually evaluated in a uniform setup, ignoring several factors associated with the data and application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Bhargavi Kalyani , A Rama Prasad Mathi , Niladri Sett

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

Predicting links in complex networks has been one of the essential topics within the realm of data mining and science discovery over the past few years. This problem remains an attempt to identify future, deleted, and redundant links using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Kamal Berahmand , Elahe Nasiri , Saman Forouzandeh , Yuefeng Li

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in computational social science. A particularly common means to predict existence of unobserved links is via structural similarity metrics, such as the number of common neighbors; node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Kai Zhou , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan , Marcin Waniek , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
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