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We live in a world increasingly dominated by networks -- communications, social, information, biological etc. A central attribute of many of these networks is that they are dynamic, that is, they exhibit structural changes over time. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Prithwish Basu , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ram Ramanathan , Matthew P. Johnson

The evolution of many dynamical systems that describe relationships or interactions between objects can be effectively modeled by temporal networks, which are typically represented as a sequence of static network snapshots. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Filip Blašković , Tim O. F. Conrad , Stefan Klus , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

Capturing both the structural and temporal aspects of interactions is crucial for many real world datasets like contact between individuals. Using the link stream formalism to capture the dynamic of the systems, we tackle the issue of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Thibaud Arnoux , Lionel Tabourier , Matthieu Latapy

Link prediction attempts to predict whether an unseen edge exists based on only a portion of edges of a graph. A flurry of methods have been introduced in recent years that attempt to make use of graph neural networks (GNNs) for this task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Juanhui Li , Harry Shomer , Haitao Mao , Shenglai Zeng , Yao Ma , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Link prediction can help rectify inaccuracies in various graph algorithms, stemming from unaccounted-for or overlooked links within networks. However, many existing works use a baseline approach, which incurs unnecessary computational costs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Subhajit Sahu

Many real-world systems involving higher-order interactions can be modeled by hypergraphs, where vertices represent the systemic units and hyperedges describe the interactions among them. In this paper, we focus on the problem of hyperlink…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xin-Jian Xu , Chong Deng , Li-Jie Zhang

Link directions are essential to the functionality of networks and their prediction is helpful towards a better knowledge of directed networks from incomplete real-world data. We study the problem of predicting the directions of some links…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-16 Fangjian Guo , Zimo Yang , Tao Zhou

Recently, link prediction has attracted more attentions from various disciplines such as computer science, bioinformatics and economics. In this problem, unknown links between nodes are discovered based on numerous information such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mohammad Mehdi Keikha , Maseud Rahgozar , Masoud Asadpour

We propose a probabilistic formulation that enables sequential detection of multiple change points in a network setting. We present a class of sequential detection rules for certain functionals of change points (minimum among a subset), and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-09 Arash Ali Amini , XuanLong Nguyen

We introduce nonlocal dynamics on directed networks through the construction of a fractional version of a nonsymmetric Laplacian for weighted directed graphs. Furthermore, we provide an analytic treatment of fractional dynamics for both…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Michele Benzi , Daniele Bertaccini , Fabio Durastante , Igor Simunec

Link prediction aims to reveal missing edges in a graph. We address this task with a Gaussian process that is transformed using simplified graph convolutions to better leverage the inductive bias of the domain. To scale the Gaussian process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Felix L. Opolka , Pietro Liò

A recently released Temporal Graph Benchmark is analyzed in the context of Dynamic Link Property Prediction. We outline our observations and propose a trivial optimization-free baseline of "recently popular nodes" outperforming other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Michał Daniluk , Jacek Dąbrowski

Link prediction is widely used in a variety of industrial applications, such as merchant recommendation, fraudulent transaction detection, and so on. However, it's a great challenge to train and deploy a link prediction model on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Dalong Zhang , Xianzheng Song , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xin Huang , Lin Wang , Jun Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for link prediction. However, GNNs suffer from poor interpretability, which limits their adoptions in critical scenarios that require knowing why certain links are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Huaisheng Zhu , Dongsheng Luo , Xianfeng Tang , Junjie Xu , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Link prediction in graphs is a task that has been widely investigated. It has been applied in various domains such as knowledge graph completion, content/item recommendation, social network recommendations and so on. The initial focus of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Nayana Bannur , Mashrin Srivastava , Harsha Vardhan

Link prediction models are increasingly used to recommend interactions in evolving networks, yet their impact on network structure is typically assessed from static snapshots. In particular, observed homophily conflates intrinsic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mathilde Perez , Raphaël Romero , Jefrey Lijffijt , Charlotte Laclau

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

Dynamic multi-relational graphs are an expressive relational representation for data enclosing entities and relations of different types, and where relationships are allowed to vary in time. Addressing predictive tasks over such data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Asma Sattar , Georgios Deligiorgis , Marco Trincavelli , Davide Bacciu

Link prediction problem has increasingly become prominent in many domains such as social network analyses, bioinformatics experiments, transportation networks, criminal investigations and so forth. A variety of techniques has been developed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Safiye Ghasemi , Amin Zarei

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