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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

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

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

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

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

Link prediction aims to uncover missing links or predict the emergence of future relationships according to the current networks structure. Plenty of algorithms have been developed for link prediction in unweighted networks, with only a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Jing Zhao , Lili Miao , Haiyang Fang , Qian-Ming Zhang , Min Nie , Tao Zhou

Link prediction is a paradigmatic problem in network science with a variety of applications. In latent space network models this problem boils down to ranking pairs of nodes in the order of increasing latent distances between them. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-03 Maksim Kitsak , Ivan Voitalov , Dmitri Krioukov

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

As a fundamental problem in many different fields, link prediction aims to estimate the likelihood of an existing link between two nodes based on the observed information. Since this problem is related to many applications ranging from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-01 Hao Liao , An Zeng , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Link prediction is a common problem in network science that transects many disciplines. The goal is to forecast the appearance of new links or to find links missing in the network. Typical methods for link prediction use the topology of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Huda Nassar , Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich

In the study of networked systems such as biological, technological, and social networks the available data are often uncertain. Rather than knowing the structure of a network exactly, we know the connections between nodes only with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Travis Martin , Brian Ball , M. E. J. Newman

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

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 is one of the fundamental problems in computational social science. A particularly common means to predict existence of unobserved links is via structural similarity metrics, such as the number of common neighbors; node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Kai Zhou , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan , Marcin Waniek , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

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

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

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 entities of real-world networks are connected via different types of connections (i.e. layers). The task of link prediction in multiplex networks is about finding missing connections based on both intra-layer and inter-layer…

We consider the problem of link prediction in networks whose edge structure may vary (sufficiently slowly) over time. This problem, with applications in many important areas including social networks, has two main variants: the first, known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Daniele Alpago , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante

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