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Link prediction plays an important role in network analysis and applications. Recently, approaches for link prediction have evolved from traditional similarity-based algorithms into embedding-based algorithms. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lei Wang , Jing Ren , Bo Xu , Jianxin Li , Wei Luo , Feng Xia

The lack of studying the complex organization of directed network usually limits to the understanding of underlying relationship between network structures and functions. Structural controllability and structural predictability, two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-31 Fei Jing , Chuang Liu , Jian-Liang Wu , Zi-Ke Zhang

Link prediction is a key problem for network-structured data, attracting considerable research efforts owing to its diverse applications. The current link prediction methods focus on general networks and are overly dependent on either the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Min Zhou , Bisheng Li , Menglin Yang , Lujia Pan

A large body of research on link prediction problem is devoted to finding missing links in single-layer (simplex) networks. The proposed link prediction methods compute a similarity measure between unconnected node pairs based on the…

Link recommendation, which suggests links to connect currently unlinked users, is a key functionality offered by major online social networks. Salient examples of link recommendation include "People You May Know" on Facebook and LinkedIn as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Zhepeng Li , Xiao Fang , Xue Bai , Olivia Sheng

Networks effectively capture interactions among components of complex systems, and have thus become a mainstay in many scientific disciplines. Growing evidence, especially from biology, suggest that networks undergo changes over time, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-10 Ali Shojaie

We propose a novel and efficient method for link prediction in bipartite networks, using \textit{formal concept analysis} (FCA) and the Transformer encoder. Link prediction in bipartite networks finds practical applications in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongyuan Yang , Siqi Peng , Akihiro Yamamoto

Link prediction is a crucial task in network analysis, but it has been shown to be prone to biased predictions, particularly when links are unfairly predicted between nodes from different sensitive groups. In this paper, we study the fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yezi Liu , Hanning Chen , Mohsen Imani

Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interactions among existing members are likely to occur in the near…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-11-19 L. Backstrom , J. Leskovec

Link prediction is a popular research topic in network analysis. In the last few years, new techniques based on graph embedding have emerged as a powerful alternative to heuristics. In this article, we study the problem of systematic biases…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Aakash Sinha , Rémy Cazabet , Rémi Vaudaine

In this work, we take a closer look at the evaluation of two families of methods for enriching information from knowledge graphs: Link Prediction and Entity Alignment. In the current experimental setting, multiple different scores are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Max Berrendorf , Evgeniy Faerman , Laurent Vermue , Volker Tresp

The automated analysis of social networks has become an important problem due to the proliferation of social networks, such as LiveJournal, Flickr and Facebook. The scale of these social networks is massive and continues to grow rapidly. An…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Donghyuk Shin , Si Si , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proven to be effective in modeling sequential data and they have been applied to boost a variety of tasks such as document classification, speech recognition and machine translation. Most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Zhiwei Wang , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

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

Graph embedding methods aim at finding useful graph representations by mapping nodes to a low-dimensional vector space. It is a task with important downstream applications, such as link prediction, graph reconstruction, data visualization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Said Kerrache , Hafida Benhidour

There is a fast-growing body of research on predicting future links in dynamic networks, with many new algorithms. Some benchmark data exists, and performance evaluations commonly rely on comparing the scores of observed network events…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Raphaël Romero , Tijl De Bie , Jefrey Lijffijt

Recent work has questioned the reliability of graph learning benchmarks, citing concerns around task design, methodological rigor, and data suitability. In this extended abstract, we contribute to this discussion by focusing on evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Filip Cornell , Oleg Smirnov , Gabriela Zarzar Gandler , Lele Cao

Reliability prediction is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of software systems, especially in the context of industry practices. While various metrics and measurements are employed to assess software reliability, the complexity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dapeng Yan , Wenjie Yang , Kui Liu , Zhiming Liu , Zhikuang Cai

An ongoing challenge for the requirements engineering of software product lines is to predict whether a new combination of features (units of functionality) will create an unwanted or even hazardous feature interaction. We thus seek to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Seyedehzahra Khoshmanesh , Robyn Lutz

The problem of recommender system is very popular with myriad available solutions. A novel approach that uses the link prediction problem in social networks has been proposed in the literature that model the typical user-item information as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 T. Jaya Lakshmi , S. Durga Bhavani