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Link prediction is a crucial task in network analysis, but it has been shown to be prone to biased predictions, particularly when links are unfairly predicted between nodes from different sensitive groups. In this paper, we study the fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yezi Liu , Hanning Chen , Mohsen Imani

Link prediction with knowledge graphs has been thoroughly studied in graph machine learning, leading to a rich landscape of graph neural network architectures with successful applications. Nonetheless, it remains challenging to transfer the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xingyue Huang , Miguel Romero Orth , Pablo Barceló , Michael M. Bronstein , İsmail İlkan Ceylan

Networks play a prominent role in the study of complex systems of interacting entities in biology, sociology, and economics. Despite this diversity, we demonstrate here that a statistical model decomposing networks into matching and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-05 Rudolf P. Rohr , Russel E. Naisbit , Christian Mazza , Louix-Félix Bersier

Link prediction on dynamic networks has been extensively studied and widely applied in various applications. However, temporal unlink prediction, which also plays an important role in the evolution of social networks, has not been paid much…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Christina Muro , Boyu Li , Kun He

In the study of economic networks, econometric approaches interpret the traditional Gravity Model specification as the expected link weight coming from a probability distribution whose functional form can be chosen arbitrarily, while…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-15 Marzio Di Vece , Diego Garlaschelli , Tiziano Squartini

Inferring models, predicting the future, and estimating the entropy rate of discrete-time, discrete-event processes is well-worn ground. However, a much broader class of discrete-event processes operates in continuous-time. Here, we provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-11 S. E. Marzen , J. P. Crutchfield

Latent space models are powerful statistical tools for modeling and understanding network data. While the importance of accounting for uncertainty in network analysis has been well recognized, the current literature predominantly focuses on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Jinming Li , Shihao Wu , Chengyu Cui , Gongjun Xu , Ji Zhu

Missing link prediction in indirected and un-weighted network is an open and challenge problem which has been studied intensively in recent years. In this paper, we studied the relationships between community structure and link formation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Zhen Liu , Jia-Lin He , Jaideep Srivastava

The broad abundance of time series data, which is in sharp contrast to limited knowledge of the underlying network dynamic processes that produce such observations, calls for a rigorous and efficient method of causal network inference. Here…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Jie Sun , Dane Taylor , Erik M. Bollt

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

Multiplex networks are a representation of real-world complex systems as a set of entities (i.e. nodes) connected via different types of connections (i.e. layers). The observed connections in these networks may not be complete and the link…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-18 Amir Mahdi Abdolhosseini-Qomi , Naser Yazdani , Masoud Asadpour

We analyze complexity in spatial network ensembles through the lens of graph entropy. Mathematically, we model a spatial network as a soft random geometric graph, i.e., a graph with two sources of randomness, namely nodes located randomly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-02 Justin P. Coon , Carl P. Dettmann , Orestis Georgiou

Causal networks are often incomplete with missing causal links. This is due to various issues, such as missing observation data. Recent approaches to the issue of incomplete causal networks have used knowledge graph link prediction methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Utkarshani Jaimini , Cory Henson , Amit Sheth

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

Many real-world systems involving higher-order interactions can be modeled by hypergraphs, where vertices represent the systemic units and hyperedges describe the interactions among them. In this paper, we focus on the problem of hyperlink…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xin-Jian Xu , Chong Deng , Li-Jie Zhang

A new method is proposed for analyzing complexity and studying the information in random geometric networks using Tsallis entropy tool. Tsallis entropy of the ensemble of random geometric networks is calculated based on the components of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 O. K. Kazemi , S. M. Taheri

Missing link prediction is a method for network analysis, with applications in recommender systems, biology, social sciences, cybersecurity, information retrieval, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reasoning in Knowledge Graphs. Missing link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Ryan Barron , Maksim E. Eren , Duc P. Truong , Cynthia Matuszek , James Wendelberger , Mary F. Dorn , Boian Alexandrov

This paper proposes a new graph proximity measure. This measure is a derivative of network reliability. By analyzing its properties and comparing it against other proximity measures through graph examples, we demonstrate that it is more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Haifeng Qian , Hui Wan , Mark N. Wegman , Luis A. Lastras , Ruchir Puri

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

Predicting the potential relations between nodes in networks, known as link prediction, has long been a challenge in network science. However, most studies just focused on link prediction of static network, while real-world networks always…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Jinyin Chen , Jian Zhang , Xuanheng Xu , Chengbo Fu , Dan Zhang , Qingpeng Zhang , Qi Xuan