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Link prediction aims to infer missing links or predicting the future ones based on currently observed partial networks, it is a fundamental problem in network science with tremendous real-world applications. However, conventional link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Weiwei Gu , Fei Gao , Xiaodan Lou , Jiang Zhang

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

The exponential growth in scale and relevance of social networks enable them to provide expansive insights. Predicting missing links in social networks efficiently can help in various modern-day business applications ranging from generating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Samarth Khanna , Sree Bhattacharyya , Sudipto Ghosh , Kushagra Agarwal , Asit Kumar Das

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

This paper introduces the concept of Conjectural Link for Complex Networks, in particular, social networks. Conjectural Link we understand as an implicit link, not available in the network, but supposed to be present, based on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-03 A. A. Snarskii , D. I. Zorinets , D. V. Lande

The problem of link prediction has attracted considerable recent attention from various domains such as sociology, anthropology, information science, and computer sciences. A link prediction algorithm is proposed based on link similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Maosheng Jiang , Yonxiang Chen , Ling Chen

Link prediction is a popular research area with important applications in a variety of disciplines, including biology, social science, security, and medicine. The fundamental requirement of link prediction is the accurate and effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Yang Yang , Ryan N. Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla

In the domain of network biology, the interactions among heterogeneous genomic and molecular entities are represented through networks. Link prediction (LP) methodologies are instrumental in inferring missing or prospective associations…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Ahmad F. Al Musawi , Satyaki Roy , Preetam Ghosh

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

Link prediction is one of the fundamental research problems in network analysis. Intuitively, it involves identifying the edges that are most likely to be added to a given network, or the edges that appear to be missing from the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Marcin Waniek , Kai Zhou , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Esteban Moro , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan

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

The task of inferring the missing links in a graph based on its current structure is referred to as link prediction. Link prediction methods that are based on pairwise node similarity are well-established approaches in the literature. They…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Md Kamrul Islam , Sabeur Aridhi , Malika Smail-Tabbone

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

Networks offer a powerful approach to modeling complex systems by representing the underlying set of pairwise interactions. Link prediction is the task that predicts links of a network that are not directly visible, with profound…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-22 Yijun Ran , Xiao-Ke Xu , Tao Jia

Link prediction requires predicting which new links are likely to appear in a graph. Being able to predict unseen links with good accuracy has important applications in several domains such as social media, security, transportation, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Ghadeer Abuoda , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Ashraf Aboulnaga

We introduce a new method for predicting the formation of links in real-world networks, which we refer to as the method of effective transitions. This method relies on the theory of isospectral matrix reductions to compute the probability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Bryn Balls-Barker , Benjamin Webb

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

Link prediction in collaboration networks is often solved by identifying structural properties of existing nodes that are disconnected at one point in time, and that share a link later on. The maximally possible recall rate or upper bound…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinseok Kim , Jana Diesner

Many algorithms have been proposed to predict missing links in a variety of real networks. These studies focus on mainly both accuracy and efficiency of these algorithms. However, little attention is paid to their robustness against either…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-26 Liang Wang , Ke Hu , Yi Tang

Link prediction problem has increasingly become prominent in many domains such as social network analyses, bioinformatics experiments, transportation networks, criminal investigations and so forth. A variety of techniques has been developed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Safiye Ghasemi , Amin Zarei