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Predicting missing links in complex networks requires algorithms that are able to explore statistical regularities in the existing data. Here we investigate the interplay between algorithm efficiency and network structures through the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Alexey Vlaskin , Eduardo G. Altmann

The statistical modeling of random networks has been widely used to uncover interaction mechanisms in complex systems and to predict unobserved links in real-world networks. In many applications, network connections are collected via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Angus Chan , Tianxi Li

This work concerns the estimation of recursive route choice models in the situation that the trip observations are incomplete, i.e., there are unconnected links (or nodes) in the observations. A direct approach to handle this issue would be…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-04-28 Tien Mai , The Viet Bui , Quoc Phong Nguyen , Tho V. Le

A large body of research on link prediction problem is devoted to finding missing links in single-layer (simplex) networks. The proposed link prediction methods compute a similarity measure between unconnected node pairs based on the…

We consider the link prediction problem in a partially observed network, where the objective is to make predictions in the unobserved portion of the network. Many existing methods reduce link prediction to binary classification problem.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-23 Bopeng Li , Sougata Chaudhuri , Ambuj Tewari

Links in most real networks often change over time. Such temporality of links encodes the ordering and causality of interactions between nodes and has a profound effect on network dynamics and function. Empirical evidences have shown that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Disheng Tang , Wenbo Du , Louis Shekhtman , Yijie Wang , Shlomo Havlin , Xianbin Cao , Gang Yan

In this paper, we proposed the \textit{link injection}, a novel method that helps any differentiable graph machine learning models to go beyond observed connections from the input data in an end-to-end learning fashion. It finds out (weak)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Jie Bu , M. Maruf , Arka Daw

Link prediction, or the inference of future or missing connections between entities, is a well-studied problem in network analysis. A multitude of heuristics exist for link prediction in ordinary networks with a single type of connection.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Robert E. Tillman , Vamsi K. Potluru , Jiahao Chen , Prashant Reddy , Manuela Veloso

Many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in a partially observed network. Examples include Facebook friendship suggestions, consumer-product recommendations, and the identification of hidden interactions between actors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xi Chen , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Link prediction -- to identify potential missing or spurious links in temporal network data -- has typically been based on local structures, ignoring long-term temporal effects. In this chapter, we propose link-prediction methods based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-27 Yueran Duan , Qing Guan , Petter Holme , Yacheng Yang , Wei Guan

Link prediction is a paradigmatic and challenging problem in network science, which aims to predict missing links, future links and temporal links based on known topology. Along with the increasing number of link prediction algorithms, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Zhou

Link prediction is a fundamental task in statistical network analysis. Recent advances have been made on learning flexible nonparametric Bayesian latent feature models for link prediction. In this paper, we present a max-margin learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Jun Zhu , Jiaming Song , Bei Chen

While links in simple networks describe pairwise interactions between nodes, it is necessary to incorporate hypernetworks for modeling complex systems with arbitrary-sized interactions. In this study, we focus on the hyperlink prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Liming Pan , Hui-Juan Shang , Peiyan Li , Haixing Dai , Wei Wang , Lixin Tian

The problem of predicting links in large networks is an important task in a variety of practical applications, including social sciences, biology and computer security. In this paper, statistical techniques for link prediction based on the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-09-01 Francesco Sanna Passino , Anna S. Bertiger , Joshua C. Neil , Nicholas A. Heard

In today's networked society, many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in networks, such as Facebook friendship suggestions, e-commerce recommendations, and the prediction of scientific collaborations in citation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Xi Chen , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

The study of SIS epidemics on networks has stressed the role of the network topology on the spreading process. However, accurate models of SIS epidemics rely on the complete knowledge of the network topology, which is often not available.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-08 Aram Vajdi , Caterina Scoglioy

We propose a simple discrete time semi-supervised graph embedding approach to link prediction in dynamic networks. The learned embedding reflects information from both the temporal and cross-sectional network structures, which is performed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-17 Ryohei Hisano

The aim of link prediction is to forecast connections that are most likely to occur in the future, based on examples of previously observed links. A key insight is that it is useful to explicitly model network dynamics, how frequently links…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alireza Hajibagheri , Gita Sukthankar , Kiran Lakkaraju

The automated analysis of social networks has become an important problem due to the proliferation of social networks, such as LiveJournal, Flickr and Facebook. The scale of these social networks is massive and continues to grow rapidly. An…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Donghyuk Shin , Si Si , Inderjit S. Dhillon

We propose a nonparametric approach to link prediction in large-scale dynamic networks. Our model uses graph-based features of pairs of nodes as well as those of their local neighborhoods to predict whether those nodes will be linked at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-19 Purnamrita Sarkar , Deepayan Chakrabarti , Michael Jordan