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Link prediction infers potential links from observed networks, and is one of the essential problems in network analyses. In contrast to traditional graph representation modeling which only predicts two-way pairwise relations, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yubai Yuan , Annie Qu

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

The paper utilizes the graph embeddings generated for entities of a large biomedical database to perform link prediction to capture various new relationships among different entities. A novel node similarity measure is proposed that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Prakhar Gurawa , Matthias Nickles

Link prediction is a technique that uses the topological information in a given network to infer the missing links in it. Since past research on link prediction has primarily focused on enhancing performance for given empirical systems,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-11 Min-Woo Ahn , Woo-Sung Jung

Link and sign prediction in complex networks bring great help to decision-making and recommender systems, such as in predicting potential relationships or relative status levels. Many previous studies focused on designing the special…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-04 Chuang Liu , Shimin Yu , Ying Huang , Zi-Ke Zhang

Predicting missing links in complex networks requires algorithms that are able to explore statistical regularities in the existing data. Here we investigate the interplay between algorithm efficiency and network structures through the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Alexey Vlaskin , Eduardo G. Altmann

We consider the problem of link prediction in networks whose edge structure may vary (sufficiently slowly) over time. This problem, with applications in many important areas including social networks, has two main variants: the first, known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Daniele Alpago , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante

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

This paper introduces the concept of Conjectural Link for Complex Networks, in particular, social networks. Conjectural Link we understand as an implicit link, not available in the network, but supposed to be present, based on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-03 A. A. Snarskii , D. I. Zorinets , D. V. Lande

The study of SIS epidemics on networks has stressed the role of the network topology on the spreading process. However, accurate models of SIS epidemics rely on the complete knowledge of the network topology, which is often not available.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-08 Aram Vajdi , Caterina Scoglioy

We provide a general framework for analyzing degree correlations between nodes separated by more than one step (i.e., beyond nearest neighbors) in complex networks. One probability and four conditional probabilities are introduced to fully…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-20 Yuka Fujiki , Taro Takaguchi , Kousuke Yakubo

A reliable inference of networks from data is of key interest in the Neurosciences. Several methods have been suggested in the literature to reliably determine links in a network. To decide about the presence of links, these techniques rely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-29 Gloria Cecchini , Marco Thiel , Bjoern Schelter , Linda Sommerlade

Node classification and link prediction are widely studied in graph representation learning. While both transductive node classification and link prediction operate over a single input graph, they have so far been studied separately. Node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ralph Abboud , İsmail İlkan Ceylan

Link prediction is one of the most important and challenging tasks in complex network analysis, which aims to predict the likelihood of the existence of missing links based on the known information in the network. As critical topological…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhu Junxi , Dai Fang , Zhao Fengqun , Guo Wenyan

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 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

Heterogeneous networks are widely used to model real-world semi-structured data. The key challenge of learning over such networks is the modeling of node similarity under both network structures and contents. To deal with network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Frank He , Xikun Zhang , Jian Peng , Jiawei Han

The entities of real-world networks are connected via different types of connections (i.e. layers). The task of link prediction in multiplex networks is about finding missing connections based on both intra-layer and inter-layer…

We introduce a new method for predicting the formation of links in real-world networks, which we refer to as the method of effective transitions. This method relies on the theory of isospectral matrix reductions to compute the probability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Bryn Balls-Barker , Benjamin Webb

The hyperlink prediction task, that of proposing new links between webpages, can be used to improve search engines, expand the visibility of web pages, and increase the connectivity and navigability of the web. Hyperlink prediction is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura