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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

Link prediction is an important task in social network analysis. There are different characteristics (features) in a social network that can be used for link prediction. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of aggregated features…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Mohammad G. Raeini

Link prediction is a classical problem in graph analysis with many practical applications. For directed graphs, recently developed deep learning approaches typically analyze node similarities through contrastive learning and aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yuyang Zhang , Xu Shen , Yu Xie , Ka-Chun Wong , Weidun Xie , Chengbin Peng

In social network science, Facebook is one of the most interesting and widely used social networks and media platforms. Its data contributed to significant evolution of social network research and link prediction techniques, which are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Tim Poštuvan , Semir Salkić , Lovro Šubelj

Link prediction aims to infer missing links or predicting the future ones based on currently observed partial networks, it is a fundamental problem in network science with tremendous real-world applications. However, conventional link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Weiwei Gu , Fei Gao , Xiaodan Lou , Jiang Zhang

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 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

In real-world complex networks, understanding the dynamics of their evolution has been of great interest to the scientific community. Predicting future links is an essential task of social network analysis as the addition or removal of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

We consider the graph link prediction task, which is a classic graph analytical problem with many real-world applications. With the advances of deep learning, current link prediction methods commonly compute features from subgraphs centered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lei Cai , Jundong Li , Jie Wang , Shuiwang Ji

With the rapid information explosion on online social network sites (SNSs), it becomes difficult for users to seek new friends or broaden their social networks in an efficient way. Link prediction, which can effectively conquer this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Huizi Wu , Shiyi Wang , Hui Fang

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

Nowadays online users prefer to join multiple social media for the purpose of socialized online service. The problem \textit{anchor link prediction} is formalized to link user data with the common ground on user profile, content and network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Hao Gao , Yongqing Wang , Shanshan Lyu , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

State-of-the-art link prediction utilizes combinations of complex features derived from network panel data. We here show that computationally less expensive features can achieve the same performance in the common scenario in which the data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Conrad Lee , Bobo Nick , Ulrik Brandes , Pádraig Cunningham

Link prediction is an open problem in the complex network, which attracts much research interest currently. However, little attention has been paid to the relation between network structure and the performance of prediction methods. In…

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

The prediction of graph evolution is an important and challenging problem in the analysis of networks and of the Web in particular. But while the appearance of new links is part of virtually every model of Web growth, the disappearance of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Julia Preusse , Jérôme Kunegis , Matthias Thimm , Sergej Sizov

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

Many real world systems or web services can be represented as a network such as social networks and transportation networks. In the past decade, many algorithms have been developed to detect the communities in a network using connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Zhi Liu , Yan Huang

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

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

Social network analysis is a popular discipline among the social and behavioural sciences, in which the relationships between different social entities are modelled as a network. One of the most popular problems in social network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Oscar Cordón , María Minárová , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Humberto Bustince