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Inferencing with network data necessitates the mapping of its nodes into a vector space, where the relationships are preserved. However, with multi-layered networks, where multiple types of relationships exist for the same set of nodes, it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Huan Song , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Recent advances in the study of networked systems have highlighted that our interconnected world is composed of networks that are coupled to each other through different "layers" that each represent one of many possible subsystems or types…

We propose a scalable temporal latent space model for link prediction in dynamic social networks, where the goal is to predict links over time based on a sequence of previous graph snapshots. The model assumes that each user lies in an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Linhong Zhu , Dong Guo , Junming Yin , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

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 2020-08-20 Michele Coscia , Michael Szell

Temporal Heterogeneous Networks play a crucial role in capturing the dynamics and heterogeneity inherent in various real-world complex systems, rendering them a noteworthy research avenue for link prediction. However, existing methods fail…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yu Tai , Xinglong Wu , Hongwei Yang , Hui He , Duanjing Chen , Yuanming Shao , Weizhe Zhang

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

In this paper, we introduce a new class of stochastic multilayer networks. A stochastic multilayer network is the aggregation of $M$ networks (one per layer) where each is a subgraph of a foundational network $G$. Each layer network is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Bo Jiang , Philippe Nain , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

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

Interlayer link prediction aims at matching the same entities across different layers of the multiplex network. Existing studies attempt to predict more accurately, efficiently, or generically from the aspects of network structure,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-19 Rui Tang , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Wenxian Wang , Wei Wang

Within network analysis, the analytical maximum entropy framework has been very successful for different tasks as network reconstruction and filtering. In a recent paper, the same framework was used for link-prediction for monopartite…

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

Clustering is a fundamental problem in network analysis that finds closely connected groups of nodes and separates them from other nodes in the graph, while link prediction is to predict whether two nodes in a network are likely to have a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shanfan Zhang , Wenjiao Zhang , Zhan Bu

Many natural, engineered, and social systems can be represented using the framework of a layered network, where each layer captures a different type of interaction between the same set of nodes. The study of such multiplex networks is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Haochen Wu , Ryan G. James , James P. Crutchfield , Raissa M. D'Souza

We introduce a methodology based on averaging similarity matrices with the aim of integrating the layers of a multiplex network into a single monoplex network. Multiplex networks are adopted for modelling a wide variety of real-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-30 Federica Baccini , Lucio Barabesi , Eugenio Petrovich

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

Predicting links in complex networks has been one of the essential topics within the realm of data mining and science discovery over the past few years. This problem remains an attempt to identify future, deleted, and redundant links using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Kamal Berahmand , Elahe Nasiri , Saman Forouzandeh , Yuefeng Li

Multiplex networks are a type of multilayer network in which entities are connected to each other via multiple types of connections. We propose a method, based on computing pairwise similarities between layers and then doing community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-20 Ta-Chu Kao , Mason A. Porter

Signed network analysis has attracted increasing attention in recent years. This is in part because research on signed network analysis suggests that negative links have added value in the analytical process. A major impediment in their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Jiliang Tang , Shiyu Chang , Charu Aggarwal , Huan Liu

Multilayer networks provide a more advanced and comprehensive framework for modeling real-world systems compared to traditional single-layer and multiplex networks. Unlike single-layer models, multilayer networks have multiple interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Christian D. Rodríguez-Camargo , Andrés F. Urquijo-Rodríguez , Eduardo Mojica-Nava

Link prediction is a crucial task in graph machine learning, where the goal is to infer missing or future links within a graph. Traditional approaches leverage heuristic methods based on widely observed connectivity patterns, offering broad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Kaiwen Dong , Haitao Mao , Zhichun Guo , Nitesh V. Chawla