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As a natural extension of link prediction on graphs, hyperlink prediction aims for the inference of missing hyperlinks in hypergraphs, where a hyperlink can connect more than two nodes. Hyperlink prediction has applications in a wide range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Can Chen , Yang-Yu Liu

Link prediction plays an important role in understanding intrinsic evolving mechanisms of networks. With the belief that the likelihood of the existence of a link between two nodes is strongly related with their similarity, many methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Xuzhen Zhu , Hui Tian , Shimin Cai , Tao Zhou

Much research effort has been devoted to developing methods for reconstructing the links of a network from dynamics of its nodes. Many current methods require the measurements of the dynamics of all the nodes be known. In real-world…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-01-15 Emily S. C. Ching , P. H. Tam

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Predicting missing links in real networks is an important problem in network science to which considerable efforts have been devoted, giving as a result a vast plethora of link prediction methods in the literature. In this work, we take a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillermo García-Pérez , Roya Aliakbarisani , Abdorasoul Ghasemi , M. Ángeles Serrano

Systematic relations between multiple objects that occur in various fields can be represented as networks. Real-world networks typically exhibit complex topologies whose structural properties are key factors in characterizing and further…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-09 Yoshihisa Tanaka , Ryosuke Kojima , Shoichi Ishida , Fumiyoshi Yamashita , Yasushi Okuno

An active research line within the broader field of network science is the one concerning link prediction. Close in scope to network reconstruction, link prediction targets specific connections with the aim of uncovering the missing ones,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Francesca Santucci , Giulio Cimini , Tiziano Squartini

Evaluation of link prediction methods is a hard task in very large complex networks because of the inhibitive computational cost. By setting a lower bound of the number of common neighbors (CN), we propose a new framework to efficiently and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-04 Wei Cui , Cunlai Pu , Zhongqi Xu

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

Network embedding methods map a network's nodes to vectors in an embedding space, in such a way that these representations are useful for estimating some notion of similarity or proximity between pairs of nodes in the network. The quality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Alexandru Mara , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Most real-world networks are embedded in latent geometries. If a node in a network is found in the vicinity of another node in the latent geometry, the two nodes have a disproportionately high probability of being connected by a link. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-19 Bukyoung Jhun

Link prediction (LP) is an important problem in network science and machine learning research. The state-of-the-art LP methods are usually evaluated in a uniform setup, ignoring several factors associated with the data and application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Bhargavi Kalyani , A Rama Prasad Mathi , Niladri Sett

Inference and prediction are fundamental to the study of complex systems, where network data are often incomplete, inaccurate or obtained indirectly. In this paper, we review recent advances in network sampling and comparison, as well as in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco A. Rodrigues

We introduce and explore a new method for inferring hidden geometric coordinates of nodes in complex networks based on the number of common neighbors between the nodes. We compare this approach to the HyperMap method, which is based only on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Rodrigo Aldecoa , Dmitri Krioukov

We propose a link prediction algorithm that is based on spring-electrical models. The idea to study these models came from the fact that spring-electrical models have been successfully used for networks visualization. A good network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yana Kashinskaya , Egor Samosvat , Akmal Artikov

The problem of link prediction, predicting if two nodes in a network have a connection between them, is a theoretical problem with numerous field-agnostic real-world applications. This paper investigates the efficacy of three classes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Vivian Feng

Much of social network analysis is - implicitly or explicitly - predicated on the assumption that individuals tend to be more similar to their friends than to strangers. Thus, an observed social network provides a noisy signal about the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Ittai Abraham , Shiri Chechik , David Kempe , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Network-structured data becomes ubiquitous in daily life and is growing at a rapid pace. It presents great challenges to feature engineering due to the high non-linearity and sparsity of the data. The local and global structure of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Xin Sun , Zenghui Song , Yongbo Yu , Junyu Dong , Claudia Plant , Christian Boehm

Link prediction is an open problem in the complex network, which attracts much research interest currently. However, little attention has been paid to the relation between network structure and the performance of prediction methods. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Xu Feng , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

Recently, link prediction has attracted more attentions from various disciplines such as computer science, bioinformatics and economics. In this problem, unknown links between nodes are discovered based on numerous information such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mohammad Mehdi Keikha , Maseud Rahgozar , Masoud Asadpour