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Multiplex networks allow us to study a variety of complex systems where nodes connect to each other in multiple ways, for example friend, family, and co-worker relations in social networks. Link prediction is the branch of network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Michele Coscia , Michael Szell

Link prediction is pervasively employed to uncover the missing links in the snapshots of real-world networks, which are usually obtained from kinds of sampling methods. Contrarily, in the previous literature, in order to evaluate the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Jichang Zhao , Xu Feng , Li Dong , Xiao Liang , Ke Xu

This study deals with the missing link prediction problem: the problem of predicting the existence of missing connections between entities of interest. We address link prediction using coupled analysis of relational datasets represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Beyza Ermiş , Evrim Acar , A. Taylan Cemgil

Almost all real-world networks are subject to constant evolution, and plenty of evolving networks have been investigated to uncover the underlying mechanisms for a deeper understanding of the organization and development of them. Compared…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Tao Wu , Leiting Chen

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

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

Methods for determining the percolation threshold usually study the behavior of network ensembles and are often restricted to a particular type of probabilistic node/link removal strategy. We propose a network-specific method to determine…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Dane Taylor , Juan G. Restrepo

Principled prediction of when and where links form in complex networks is a fundamental problem. We derive a closed-form non-Markovian expression for next-step connection probabilities that unifies latent hyperbolic geometry with long-range…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-28 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos

Network analysis is currently used in a myriad of contexts: from identifying potential drug targets to predicting the spread of epidemics and designing vaccination strategies, and from finding friends to uncovering criminal activity.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-04-28 R. Guimera , M. Sales-Pardo

Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interactions among existing members are likely to occur in the near…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-11-19 L. Backstrom , J. Leskovec

Link prediction is the problem of inferring whether potential edges between pairs of vertices in a graph will be present or absent in the near future. To perform this task it is usual to use information provided by a number of available and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Matias Estrada , Marcelo Mendoza

This paper studies a linear production model in team networks with missing links. In the model, heterogeneous workers, represented as nodes, produce jointly and repeatedly within teams, represented as links. Links are omitted when their…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-10-13 Yang Xu

As a natural extension of link prediction on graphs, hyperlink prediction aims for the inference of missing hyperlinks in hypergraphs, where a hyperlink can connect more than two nodes. Hyperlink prediction has applications in a wide range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Can Chen , Yang-Yu Liu

Many algorithms have been proposed for predicting missing edges in networks, but they do not usually take account of which edges are missing. We focus on networks which have missing edges of the form that is likely to occur in real…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Systematic relations between multiple objects that occur in various fields can be represented as networks. Real-world networks typically exhibit complex topologies whose structural properties are key factors in characterizing and further…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-09 Yoshihisa Tanaka , Ryosuke Kojima , Shoichi Ishida , Fumiyoshi Yamashita , Yasushi Okuno

Outliers arise in networks due to different reasons such as fraudulent behavior of malicious users or default in measurement instruments and can significantly impair network analyses. In addition, real-life networks are likely to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Solenne Gaucher , Olga Klopp , Geneviève Robin

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

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

Plenty of algorithms for link prediction have been proposed and were applied to various real networks. Among these works, the weights of links are rarely taken into account. In this paper, we use local similarity indices to estimate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-08-14 Linyuan Lu , Tao Zhou

Multiplex networks allow us to study a variety of complex systems where nodes connect to each other in multiple ways, for example friend, family, and co-worker relations in social networks. Link prediction is the branch of network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Michele Coscia , Christian Borgelt , Michael Szell