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Topological properties of networks are widely applied to study the link-prediction problem recently. Common Neighbors, for example, is a natural yet efficient framework. Many variants of Common Neighbors have been thus proposed to further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Fei Tan , Yongxiang Xia , Boyao Zhu

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

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

Link prediction is an important network science problem in many domains such as social networks, chem/bio-informatics, etc. Most of these networks are dynamic in nature with patterns evolving over time. In such cases, it is necessary to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Jeyanthi Narasimhan , Lawrence Holder

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

Predicting edges in networks is a key problem in social network analysis and involves reasoning about the relationships between nodes based on the structural properties of a network. In particular, link prediction can be used to analyse how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mateusz Tarkowski , Tomasz Michalak , Michael Wooldridge

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

Node similarity measures quantify how similar a pair of nodes are in a network. These similarity measures turn out to be an important fundamental tool for many real world applications such as link prediction in networks, recommender systems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Palash Dey , Sourav Medya

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 aims to uncover the underlying relationship behind networks, which could be utilized to predict the missing edges or identify the spurious edges, and attracts much attention from various fields. The key issue of link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Tong Wang , Ming-yang Zhou , Zhong-qian Fu

Link-prediction is an active research field within network theory, aiming at uncovering missing connections or predicting the emergence of future relationships from the observed network structure. This paper represents our contribution to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-20 Federica Parisi , Guido Caldarelli , Tiziano Squartini

Inspired by practical importance of social networks, economic networks, biological networks and so on, studies on large and complex networks have attracted a surge of attentions in the recent years. Link prediction is a fundamental issue to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Liming Pan , Hong Cheng , Tao Zhou

Link prediction, the problem of identifying missing links among a set of inter-related data entities, is a popular field of research due to its application to graph-like domains. Producing consistent evaluations of the performance of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés

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

Some networked systems can be better modelled by multilayer structure where the individual nodes develop relationships in multiple layers. Multilayer networks with similar nodes across layers are also known as multiplex networks. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Shaghayegh Najari , Mostafa Salehi , Vahid Ranjbar , Mahdi Jalili

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

Analysis of criminal networks is inherently difficult because of the nature of the topic. Criminal networks are covert and most of the information is not publicly available. This leads to small datasets available for analysis. The available…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Emrah Budur , Seungmin Lee , Vein S. Kong

As a fundamental challenge in vast disciplines, link prediction aims to identify potential links in a network based on the incomplete observed information, which has broad applications ranging from uncovering missing protein-protein…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Hao Liao , Mingyang Zhou , Zong-Wen Wei , Rui Mao , Alexandre Vidmer , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Link prediction, a fundamental task on graphs, has proven indispensable in various applications, e.g., friend recommendation, protein analysis, and drug interaction prediction. However, since datasets span a multitude of domains, they could…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Haitao Mao , Juanhui Li , Harry Shomer , Bingheng Li , Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Predicting the emergence of future research collaborations between authors in academic social networks (SNs) is a very effective example that demonstrates the link prediction problem. This problem refers to predicting the potential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Doaa Hassan , Mohammad Al Hasan