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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

Missing link prediction of networks is of both theoretical interest and practical significance in modern science. In this paper, we empirically investigate a simple framework of link prediction on the basis of node similarity. We compare…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-10-19 Tao Zhou , Linyuan Lu , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Link-prediction is an active research field within network theory, aiming at uncovering missing connections or predicting the emergence of future relationships from the observed network structure. This paper represents our contribution to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-20 Federica Parisi , Guido Caldarelli , Tiziano Squartini

Link prediction is pervasively employed to uncover the missing links in the snapshots of real-world networks, which are usually obtained from kinds of sampling methods. Contrarily, in the previous literature, in order to evaluate the…

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

Link prediction plays an important role in understanding intrinsic evolving mechanisms of networks. With the belief that the likelihood of the existence of a link between two nodes is strongly related with their similarity, many methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Xuzhen Zhu , Hui Tian , Shimin Cai , Tao Zhou

Predictions of missing links of incomplete networks like protein-protein interaction networks or very likely but not yet existent links in evolutionary networks like friendship networks in web society can be considered as a guideline for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-10-27 Linyuan Lv , Ci-Hang Jin , Tao Zhou

As a fundamental problem in many different fields, link prediction aims to estimate the likelihood of an existing link between two nodes based on the observed information. Since this problem is related to many applications ranging from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-01 Hao Liao , An Zeng , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Real-world network datasets are typically obtained in ways that fail to capture all edges. The patterns of missing data are often non-uniform as they reflect biases and other shortcomings of different data collection methods. Nevertheless,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Xie He , Amir Ghasemian , Eun Lee , Alice Schwarze , Aaron Clauset , Peter J. Mucha

Link prediction aims to uncover missing links or predict the emergence of future relationships according to the current networks structure. Plenty of algorithms have been developed for link prediction in unweighted networks, with only a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Jing Zhao , Lili Miao , Haiyang Fang , Qian-Ming Zhang , Min Nie , Tao Zhou

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

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

Plenty of algorithms for link prediction have been proposed and were applied to various real networks. Among these works, the weights of links are rarely taken into account. In this paper, we use local similarity indices to estimate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-08-14 Linyuan Lu , 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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
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