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Given a real-world graph, how can we measure relevance scores for ranking and link prediction? Random walk with restart (RWR) provides an excellent measure for this and has been applied to various applications such as friend recommendation,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Woojeong Jin , Jinhong Jung , U Kang

In this paper we show how to efficiently produce unbiased estimates of subgraph frequencies from a probability sample of egocentric networks (i.e., focal nodes, their neighbors, and the induced subgraphs of ties among their neighbors). A…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Minas Gjoka , Emily Smith , Carter T. Butts

One of the intensely studied concepts of network robustness is $r$-robustness, which is a network topology property quantified by an integer $r$. It is required by mean subsequence reduced (MSR) algorithms and their variants to achieve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yuhao Yi , Yuan Wang , Xingkang He , Stacy Patterson , Karl H. Johansson

A distinguishing property of communities in networks is that cycles are more prevalent within communities than across communities. Thus, the detection of these communities may be aided through the incorporation of measures of the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Heman Shakeri , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Michael J. Higgins

A distinguishing property of communities in networks is that cycles are more prevalent within communities than across communities. Thus, the detection of these communities may be aided through the incorporation of measures of the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Behnaz Moradi , Heman Shakeri , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Michael Higgins

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful technique for learning on relational data. Owing to the relatively limited number of message passing steps they perform -- and hence a smaller receptive field -- there has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Ameya Velingker , Ali Kemal Sinop , Ira Ktena , Petar Veličković , Sreenivas Gollapudi

In the information overloaded web, personalized recommender systems are essential tools to help users find most relevant information. The most heavily-used recommendation frameworks assume user interactions that are characterized by a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Fatemeh Vahedian , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Single particle tracking allows probing how biomolecules interact physically with their natural environments. A fundamental challenge when analysing recorded single particle trajectories is the inverse problem of inferring the physical…

Despite recent effort to estimate topology characteristics of large graphs (i.e., online social networks and peer-to-peer networks), little attention has been given to develop a formal methodology to characterize the vast amount of content…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Pinghui Wang , Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan

Graphs representation learning has been a very active research area in recent years. The goal of graph representation learning is to generate graph representation vectors that capture the structure and features of large graphs accurately.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Shima Khoshraftar , Aijun An

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing a significant threat to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhiwei Zhang , Minhua Lin , Junjie Xu , Zongyu Wu , Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

Despite proportionality being one of the tenets of data protection laws, we currently lack a robust analytical framework to evaluate the reach of modern data collections and the network effects at play. We here propose a graph-theoretic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Florimond Houssiau , Piotr Sapiezynski , Laura Radaelli , Erez Shmueli , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Estimating individual treatment effect (ITE) from observational graph data is crucial for decision-making in the fields such as commerce and medicine. This task is challenging due to interference, where individual outcomes can be influenced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xiaofeng Lin , Han Bao , Hisashi Kashima

Often, due to prohibitively large size or to limits to data collecting APIs, it is not possible to work with a complete network dataset and sampling is required. A type of sampling which is consistent with Twitter API restrictions is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Naomi A. Arnold , Raul J. Mondragon , Richard G. Clegg

Edge sampling is an important topic in network analysis. It provides a natural way to reduce network size while retaining desired features of the original network. Sampling methods that only use local information are common in practice as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Can M. Le

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a predominant method for graph representation learning. However, beyond subgraph frequency estimation, their application to network motif significance-profile (SP) prediction remains under-explored, with no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Pedro C. Vieira , Miguel E. P. Silva , Pedro Manuel Pinto Ribeiro

Online social networks (OSN) contain extensive amount of information about the underlying society that is yet to be explored. One of the most feasible technique to fetch information from OSN, crawling through Application Programming…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Bruno Ribeiro , Jithin K. Sreedharan

Large-scale graphs are ubiquitous in real-world scenarios and can be trained by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to generate representation for downstream tasks. Given the abundant information and complex topology of a large-scale graph, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Xin Liu , Xunbin Xiong , Mingyu Yan , Runzhen Xue , Shirui Pan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Recently, it has been proposed that the natural connectivity can be used to efficiently characterise the robustness of complex networks. Natural connectivity quantifies the redundancy of alternative routes in a network by evaluating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-20 Jun Wu , Mauricio Barahona , Yuejin Tan , Hongzhong Deng

Analyzing social graphs with limited data access is challenging for third-party researchers. To address this challenge, a number of algorithms that estimate structural properties via a random walk have been developed. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo