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Predicting the emergence of future research collaborations between authors in academic social networks (SNs) is a very effective example that demonstrates the link prediction problem. This problem refers to predicting the potential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Doaa Hassan , Mohammad Al Hasan

Link prediction, a fundamental task on graphs, has proven indispensable in various applications, e.g., friend recommendation, protein analysis, and drug interaction prediction. However, since datasets span a multitude of domains, they could…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Haitao Mao , Juanhui Li , Harry Shomer , Bingheng Li , Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

We address the problem of classifying the links of signed social networks given their full structural topology. Motivated by a binary user behaviour assumption, which is supported by decades of research in psychology, we develop an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Géraud Le Falher , Fabio Vitale

In the age of digital interaction, person-to-person relationships existing on social media may be different from the very same interactions that exist offline. Examining potential or spurious relationships between members in a social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhihao Wu , Taoran Li , Ray Roman

Signed networks contain both positive and negative kinds of interactions like friendship and enmity. The task of node classification in non-signed graphs has proven to be beneficial in many real world applications, yet extensions to signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Pedro Mercado , Jessica Bosch , Martin Stoll

Due to the fact much of today's data can be represented as graphs, there has been a demand for generalizing neural network models for graph data. One recent direction that has shown fruitful results, and therefore growing interest, is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Tyler Derr , Yao Ma , Jiliang Tang

In signed networks, some existing community detection methods treat negative connections as intercommunity links and positive ones as intracommunity links. However, it is important to recognize that negative links on real-world networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-17 Peng Zhang , Xianyu Xu , Leyang Xue

On-line social networks (OSNs) often contain many different types of relationships between users. When studying the structure of OSNs such as Facebook, two of the most commonly studied networks are friendship and interaction networks. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ruthwik R. Junuthula , Kevin S. Xu , Vijay K. Devabhaktuni

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

The modeling of networks, specifically generative models, have been shown to provide a plethora of information about the underlying network structures, as well as many other benefits behind their construction. Recently there has been a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Tyler Derr , Charu Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

With the prevalence of social media, the connectedness between people has been greatly enhanced. Real-world relations between users on social media are often not limited to expressing positive ties such as friendship, trust, and agreement,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zeyu Zhang , Peiyao Zhao , Xin Li , Jiamou Liu , Xinrui Zhang , Junjie Huang , Xiaofeng Zhu

Over the past few years, there has been a substantial effort towards automated detection of fake news on social media platforms. Existing research has modeled the structure, style, content, and patterns in dissemination of online posts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Shantanu Chandra , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Madhav Nimishakavi , Marzieh Saeidi , Ekaterina Shutova

Link prediction is central to unraveling social network evolution and node relationships, as well as understanding the characteristic mechanisms of complex networks. Currently, research on link prediction for complex dynamic networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Gaoxin Zhang , Ruixing Ren , Junhui Zhao , Xiaoke Sun

Many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in a partially observed network. Examples include Facebook friendship suggestions, consumer-product recommendations, and the identification of hidden interactions between actors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xi Chen , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Temporal networks have gained significant prominence in the past decade for modelling dynamic interactions within complex systems. A key challenge in this domain is Temporal Link Prediction (TLP), which aims to forecast future connections…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiafeng Xiong , Ahmad Zareie , Rizos Sakellariou

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

The structure of an online social network in most cases cannot be described just by links between its members. We study online social networks, in which members may have certain attitude, positive or negative toward each other, and so the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-10 Cong Wang , Andrei A. Bulatov

Signed networks provide a principled framework for representing systems in which interactions are not merely present or absent but qualitatively distinct: friendly or antagonistic, supportive or conflicting, excitatory or inhibitory. This…

From the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the 2021 Capitol riots to the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19, many have blamed social media for today's deeply divided society. Recent advances in machine learning for signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Zexi Huang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

Link prediction aims to infer the link existence between pairs of nodes in networks/graphs. Despite their wide application, the success of traditional link prediction algorithms is hindered by three major challenges -- link sparsity, node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Philip S. Yu