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Link prediction -- to identify potential missing or spurious links in temporal network data -- has typically been based on local structures, ignoring long-term temporal effects. In this chapter, we propose link-prediction methods based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-27 Yueran Duan , Qing Guan , Petter Holme , Yacheng Yang , Wei Guan

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

Link prediction, as a frontier task in complex network topology analysis, aims to infer the existence of latent links between node pairs based on observed nodes and structural information. We propose an ensemble link prediction model that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-09 Zi-Xuan Jin , Jun-Fan Yi , Ke-Ke Shang

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring structural regularities of networks by dividing the nodes of a network into groups such that the members of each group have similar patterns of connections to other groups. Specifically,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng , Jia-Feng Guo

Multiplex networks allow us to study a variety of complex systems where nodes connect to each other in multiple ways, for example friend, family, and co-worker relations in social networks. Link prediction is the branch of network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Michele Coscia , Christian Borgelt , Michael Szell

Identification of communities in complex networks has become an effective means to analysis of complex systems. It has broad applications in diverse areas such as social science, engineering, biology and medicine. Finding communities of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Dongxiao He , Di Jin , Weixiong Zhang

Relational data are ubiquitous in real-world data applications, e.g., in social network analysis or biological modeling, but networks are nearly always incompletely observed. The state-of-the-art for predicting missing links in the hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bisman Singh , Lucy Van Kleunen , Aaron Clauset

Modeling the behavior of coupled networks is challenging due to their intricate dynamics. For example in neuroscience, it is of critical importance to understand the relationship between the functional neural processes and anatomical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hongyuan You , Sikun Lin , Ambuj K. Singh

Numerous concise models such as preferential attachment have been put forward to reveal the evolution mechanisms of real-world networks, which show that real-world networks are usually jointly driven by a hybrid mechanism of multiplex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-12 Qian-Ming Zhang , Xiao-Ke Xu , Yu-Xiao Zhu , Tao Zhou

Complex networks are graphs representing real-life systems that exhibit unique characteristics not found in purely regular or completely random graphs. The study of such systems is vital but challenging due to the complexity of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Hafida Benhidour , Lama Almeshkhas , Said Kerrache

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…

Almost all real-world networks are subject to constant evolution, and plenty of evolving networks have been investigated to uncover the underlying mechanisms for a deeper understanding of the organization and development of them. Compared…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Tao Wu , Leiting Chen

Link prediction, or the inference of future or missing connections between entities, is a well-studied problem in network analysis. A multitude of heuristics exist for link prediction in ordinary networks with a single type of connection.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Robert E. Tillman , Vamsi K. Potluru , Jiahao Chen , Prashant Reddy , Manuela Veloso

Link prediction is an important network science problem in many domains such as social networks, chem/bio-informatics, etc. Most of these networks are dynamic in nature with patterns evolving over time. In such cases, it is necessary to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Jeyanthi Narasimhan , Lawrence Holder

Plenty of algorithms for link prediction have been proposed and were applied to various real networks. Among these works, the weights of links are rarely taken into account. In this paper, we use local similarity indices to estimate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-08-14 Linyuan Lu , Tao Zhou

In real-world networks, predicting the weight (strength) of links is as crucial as predicting the existence of the links themselves. Previous studies have primarily used shallow graph features for link weight prediction, limiting the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jinbi Liang , Cunlai Pu , Xiangbo Shu , Yongxiang Xia , Chengyi Xia

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

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

As a fundamental challenge in vast disciplines, link prediction aims to identify potential links in a network based on the incomplete observed information, which has broad applications ranging from uncovering missing protein-protein…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Hao Liao , Mingyang Zhou , Zong-Wen Wei , Rui Mao , Alexandre Vidmer , Yi-Cheng Zhang

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