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Networks have provided extremely successful models of data and complex systems. Yet, as combinatorial objects, networks do not have in general intrinsic coordinates and do not typically lie in an ambient space. The process of assigning an…

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Random walks play an important role in probing the structure of complex networks. On traditional networks, they can be used to extract community structure, understand node centrality, perform link prediction, or capture the similarity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-13 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

Network embedding, which maps graphs to distributed representations, is a unified framework for various graph inference tasks. According to the topology properties (e.g., structural roles and community memberships of nodes) to be preserved,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Meng Qin , Dit-Yan Yeung

Random walks are ubiquitous in the sciences, and they are interesting from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They are one of the most fundamental types of stochastic processes; can be used to model numerous phenomena, including…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-13 Naoki Masuda , Mason A. Porter , Renaud Lambiotte

Euclidean embeddings of data are fundamentally limited in their ability to capture latent semantic structures, which need not conform to Euclidean spatial assumptions. Here we consider an alternative, which embeds data as discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Charlie Frogner , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Justin Solomon

In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of random walk for network embedding. We propose to use non-Markovian random walk, variants of vertex-reinforced random walk (VRRW), to fully use the history of a random walk path. To solve…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wenyi Xiao , Huan Zhao , Vincent W. Zheng , Yangqiu Song

Graph embeddings learn the structure of networks and represent it in low-dimensional vector spaces. Community structure is one of the features that are recognized and reproduced by embeddings. We show that an iterative procedure, in which a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-30 Bianka Kovács , Sadamori Kojaku , Gergely Palla , Santo Fortunato

Graph embedding is a transformation of nodes of a network into a set of vectors. A good embedding should capture the underlying graph topology and structure, node-to-node relationship, and other relevant information about the graph, its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Bogumił Kamiński , Łukasz Kraiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Network embedding is the process of learning low-dimensional representations for nodes in a network, while preserving node features. Existing studies only leverage network structure information and focus on preserving structural features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Conghui Zheng , Li Pan , Peng Wu

Recently, considerable research attention has been paid to network embedding, a popular approach to construct feature vectors of vertices. Due to the curse of dimensionality and sparsity in graphical datasets, this approach has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Xi Liu , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Nick Duffield , Rui Chen , Muhe Xie , Xidao Wen

Random walks have been proven to be useful for constructing various algorithms to gain information on networks. Algorithm node2vec employs biased random walks to realize embeddings of nodes into low-dimensional spaces, which can then be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-22 Lingqi Meng , Naoki Masuda

Describing networks geometrically through low-dimensional latent metric spaces has helped design efficient learning algorithms, unveil network symmetries and study dynamical network processes. However, latent space embeddings are limited to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-10 Adam Gosztolai , Alexis Arnaudon

Identifying and quantifying structural dissimilarities between complex networks is a fundamental and challenging problem in network science. Previous network comparison methods are based on the structural features, such as the length of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zhipeng Wang , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

Network embedding aims to learn a latent, low-dimensional vector representations of network nodes, effective in supporting various network analytic tasks. While prior arts on network embedding focus primarily on preserving network topology…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu , Chengqi Zhang

Mapping network flows provides insight into the organization of networks, but even though many real-networks are bipartite, no method for mapping flows takes advantage of the bipartite structure. What do we miss by discarding this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Christopher Blöcker , Martin Rosvall

An important part of many machine learning workflows on graphs is vertex representation learning, i.e., learning a low-dimensional vector representation for each vertex in the graph. Recently, several powerful techniques for unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hooman Peiro Sajjad , Andrew Docherty , Yuriy Tyshetskiy

Embedding static graphs in low-dimensional vector spaces plays a key role in network analytics and inference, supporting applications like node classification, link prediction, and graph visualization. However, many real-world networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Claudio D. T. Barros , Matheus R. F. Mendonça , Alex B. Vieira , Artur Ziviani

Recent works on representation learning for Knowledge Graphs have moved beyond the problem of link prediction, to answering queries of an arbitrary structure. Existing methods are based on ad-hoc mechanisms that require training with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Daniel Daza , Michael Cochez

Heterogeneous graphs (HGs) also known as heterogeneous information networks have become ubiquitous in real-world scenarios; therefore, HG embedding, which aims to learn representations in a lower-dimension space while preserving the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Xiao Wang , Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi , Shaohua Fan , Yanfang Ye , Philip S. Yu

Graphs, such as social networks, word co-occurrence networks, and communication networks, occur naturally in various real-world applications. Analyzing them yields insight into the structure of society, language, and different patterns of…

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