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Graph is a universe data structure that is widely used to organize data in real-world. Various real-word networks like the transportation network, social and academic network can be represented by graphs. Recent years have witnessed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xueyi Liu , Jie Tang

Uncovering structural patterns in collaboration networks is key for understanding how knowledge flows and innovation emerges. These networks often exhibit a rich interplay of meso-scale structures, such as communities, core-periphery…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Sara Geremia , Domenico De Stefano , Michael Fop

Graphs are commonly used to characterise interactions between objects of interest. Because they are based on a straightforward formalism, they are used in many scientific fields from computer science to historical sciences. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-24 Pierre Latouche , Fabrice Rossi

Network embedding, which aims to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes, has been used for various graph related tasks including visualization, link prediction and node classification. Most existing embedding methods rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Palash Goyal , Homa Hosseinmardi , Emilio Ferrara , Aram Galstyan

When dealing with large graphs, such as those that arise in the context of online social networks, a subset of nodes may be labeled. These labels can indicate demographic values, interest, beliefs or other characteristics of the nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Smriti Bhagat , Graham Cormode , S. Muthukrishnan

How to characterize nodes and edges in dynamic attributed networks based on social aspects? We address this problem by exploring the strength of the ties between actors and their associated attributes over time, thus capturing the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Thiago H. P. Silva , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating graphs is community detection, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-23 Luis F Seoane

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

We present a framework for automatically decomposing ("block-modeling") the functional classes of agents within a complex network. These classes are represented by the nodes of an image graph ("block model") depicting the main patterns of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-11 Joerg Reichardt , Douglas R. White

We address the problem of recognizing situations in images. Given an image, the task is to predict the most salient verb (action), and fill its semantic roles such as who is performing the action, what is the source and target of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Ruiyu Li , Makarand Tapaswi , Renjie Liao , Jiaya Jia , Raquel Urtasun , Sanja Fidler

Relationship between agents can be conveniently represented by graphs. When these relationships have different modalities, they are better modelled by multilayer graphs where each layer is associated with one modality. Such graphs arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Real-world networks often benefit from capturing both local and global interactions. Inspired by multi-modal analysis in brain imaging, where structural and functional connectivity offer complementary views of network organization, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yang Li , Luopeiwen Yi , Tananun Songdechakraiwut

The irreducible complexity of natural phenomena has led Graph Neural Networks to be employed as a standard model to perform representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. While their capacity to capture local and global patterns is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lorenzo Giusti

Game-theoretic centrality is a flexible and sophisticated approach to identify the most important nodes in a network. It builds upon the methods from cooperative game theory and network theory. The key idea is to treat nodes as players in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Mateusz K. Tarkowski , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan , Michael Wooldridge

Numerous social, medical, engineering and biological challenges can be framed as graph-based learning tasks. Here, we propose a new feature based approach to network classification. We show how dynamics on a network can be useful to reveal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-01 Leonardo Gutierrez Gomez , Benjamin Chiem , Jean-Charles Delvenne

Computing meaningful clusters of nodes is crucial to analyze large networks. In this paper, we present a pairwise node similarity measure that allows to extract roles, i.e. group of nodes sharing similar flow patterns within a network. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Arnaud Browet , Paul Van Dooren

Most of the Natural Language Processing systems are involved in entity-based processing for several tasks like Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Text-Summarization and so on. A new challenge comes when entities play roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Neelesh Kumar Shukla , Sanasam Ranbir Singh

Graph kernels are kernel methods measuring graph similarity and serve as a standard tool for graph classification. However, the use of kernel methods for node classification, which is a related problem to graph representation learning, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yu Tian , Long Zhao , Xi Peng , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Graphs have a superior ability to represent relational data, like chemical compounds, proteins, and social networks. Hence, graph-level learning, which takes a set of graphs as input, has been applied to many tasks including comparison,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhenyu Yang , Ge Zhang , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shan Xue , Chuan Zhou , Charu Aggarwal , Hao Peng , Wenbin Hu , Edwin Hancock , Pietro Liò

Many real-world networks have associated metadata that assigns categorical labels to nodes. Analysis of these annotations can complement the topological analysis of complex networks. Annotated networks have typically been used to evaluate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sung Soo Moon , Sebastian E. Ahnert