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Learning embeddings from large-scale networks is an open challenge. Despite the overwhelming number of existing methods, is is unclear how to exploit network structure in a way that generalizes easily to unseen nodes, edges or graphs. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nurudin Alvarez-Gonzalez , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicenç Gómez

Multiplex networks are collections of networks with identical nodes but distinct layers of edges. They are genuine representations for a large variety of real systems whose elements interact in multiple fashions or flavors. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-27 Daniel Kaiser , Siddharth Patwardhan , Minsuk Kim , Filippo Radicchi

We study the following paradox associated with networks growing according to superlinear preferential attachment: superlinear preference cannot produce scale-free networks in the thermodynamic limit, but there are superlinearly growing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-23 Paul Krapivsky , Dmitri Krioukov

Spectral embedding finds vector representations of the nodes of a network, based on the eigenvectors of a properly constructed matrix, and has found applications throughout science and technology. Many networks are multipartite, meaning…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-27 Alexander Modell , Ian Gallagher , Joshua Cape , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

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

We show that not only preferential attachment but also preferential depletion leads to scale-free networks. The resulting degree distribution exponents is typically less than two (5/3) as opposed to the case of the growth models studied…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Christian M. Schneider , Lucilla de Arcangelis , Hans J. Herrmann

Complex networks representing social interactions, brain activities, molecular structures have been studied widely to be able to understand and predict their characteristics as graphs. Models and algorithms for these networks are used in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Murat Çelik , Ali Baran Taşdemir , Lale Özkahya

Recently, network embedding that encodes structural information of graphs into a vector space has become popular for network analysis. Although recent methods show promising performance for various applications, the huge sizes of graphs may…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Esra Akbas , Mehmet Aktas

It is commonly believed that real networks are scale-free and fraction of nodes $P(k)$ with degree $k$ satisfies the power law $P(k) \propto k^{-\gamma} \text{ for } k > k_{min} > 0$. Preferential attachment is the mechanism that has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Raheel Anwar , Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Muhammad Abid

A few models have tried to tackle the link prediction problem, also known as knowledge graph completion, by embedding knowledge graphs in comparably lower dimensions. However, the state-of-the-art results are attained at the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Peyman Baghershahi , Reshad Hosseini , Hadi Moradi

Most of the existing multi-relational network embedding methods, e.g., TransE, are formulated to preserve pair-wise connectivity structures in the networks. With the observations that significant triangular connectivity structures and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xin Li , Huiting Hong , Lin Liu , William K. Cheung

This paper investigates the problem of network embedding, which aims at learning low-dimensional vector representation of nodes in networks. Most existing network embedding methods rely solely on the network structure, i.e., the linkage…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Xiaofei Sun , Jiang Guo , Xiao Ding , Ting Liu

A main challenge in mining network-based data is finding effective ways to represent or encode graph structures so that it can be efficiently exploited by machine learning algorithms. Several methods have focused in network representation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez , Jean-Charles Delvenne

In machine learning, graph embedding algorithms seek low-dimensional representations of the input network data, thereby allowing for downstream tasks on compressed encodings. Recently, within the framework of network renormalization,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-29 Riccardo Milocco , Fabian Jansen , Diego Garlaschelli

This work proposes an algorithm for explicitly constructing a pair of neural networks that linearize and reconstruct an embedded submanifold, from finite samples of this manifold. Our such-generated neural networks, called Flattening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Michael Psenka , Druv Pai , Vishal Raman , Shankar Sastry , Yi Ma

In their recent work "Scale-free networks are rare", Broido and Clauset address the problem of the analysis of degree distributions in networks to classify them as scale-free at different strengths of "scale-freeness." Over the last two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-01 Pim van der Hoorn , Ivan Voitalov , Remco van der Hofstad , Dmitri Krioukov

Recent years have witnessed a widespread increase of interest in network representation learning (NRL). By far most research efforts have focused on NRL for homogeneous networks like social networks where vertices are of the same type, or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Ming Gao , Xiangnan He , Leihui Chen , Tingting Liu , Jinglin Zhang , Aoying Zhou

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

Transfer learning for feature extraction can be used to exploit deep representations in contexts where there is very few training data, where there are limited computational resources, or when tuning the hyper-parameters needed for training…

We investigate a network model based on an infinite regular square lattice embedded in the Euclidean plane where the node connection probability is given by the geometrical distance of nodes. We show that the degree distribution in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-23 Matus Medo , Jan Smrek