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Networks of disparate phenomena-- be it the global ecology, human social institutions, within the human brain, or in micro-scale protein interactions-- exhibit broadly consistent architectural features. To explain this, we propose a new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-26 Keith M. Smith

Pairwise network comparison is essential for various applications, including neuroscience, disease research, and dynamic network analysis. While existing literature primarily focuses on comparing entire network structures, we address a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Runbing Zheng

We define and study the link prediction problem in bipartite networks, specializing general link prediction algorithms to the bipartite case. In a graph, a link prediction function of two vertices denotes the similarity or proximity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Jérôme Kunegis , Ernesto W. De Luca , Sahin Albayrak

Link prediction is a key aspect of graph machine learning, with applications as diverse as disease prediction, social network recommendations, and drug discovery. It involves predicting new links that may form between network nodes. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Haohui Lu , Shahadat Uddin

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

The hyperlink prediction task, that of proposing new links between webpages, can be used to improve search engines, expand the visibility of web pages, and increase the connectivity and navigability of the web. Hyperlink prediction is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura

Force-directed layout algorithms are ubiquitously-used tools for network visualisation across a multitude of scientific disciplines. However, they lack theoretical grounding which allows to interpret their outcomes rigorously and can guide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Felix Gaisbauer , Armin Pournaki , Sven Banisch , Eckehard Olbrich

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

The efficiency of graph-based semi-supervised algorithms depends on the graph of instances on which they are applied. The instances are often in a vectorial form before a graph linking them is built. The construction of the graph relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Pauline Wauquier , Mikaela Keller

Spatial networks are networks where nodes are located in a space equipped with a metric. Typically, the space is two-dimensional and until recently and traditionally, the metric that was usually considered was the Euclidean distance. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

There is a fast-growing body of research on predicting future links in dynamic networks, with many new algorithms. Some benchmark data exists, and performance evaluations commonly rely on comparing the scores of observed network events…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Raphaël Romero , Tijl De Bie , Jefrey Lijffijt

Networks are models representing relationships between entities. Often these relationships are explicitly given, or we must learn a representation which generalizes and predicts observed behavior in underlying individual data (e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ivan Brugere , Chris Kanich , Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

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

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

We propose a non-parametric link prediction algorithm for a sequence of graph snapshots over time. The model predicts links based on the features of its endpoints, as well as those of the local neighborhood around the endpoints. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Purnamrita Sarkar , Deepayan Chakrabarti , Michael Jordan

Link prediction is a technique that uses the topological information in a given network to infer the missing links in it. Since past research on link prediction has primarily focused on enhancing performance for given empirical systems,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-11 Min-Woo Ahn , Woo-Sung Jung

Network embedding has recently emerged as a promising technique to embed nodes of a network into low-dimensional vectors. While fairly successful, most existing works focus on the embedding techniques for static networks. But in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zenan Xu , Zijing Ou , Qinliang Su , Jianxing Yu , Xiaojun Quan , Zhenkun Lin

Community detection and edge prediction are both forms of link mining: they are concerned with discovering the relations between vertices in networks. Some of the vertex similarity measures used in edge prediction are closely related to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Many real world, complex phenomena have underlying structures of evolving networks where nodes and links are added and removed over time. A central scientific challenge is the description and explanation of network dynamics, with a key test…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-15 Catherine A. Bliss , Morgan R. Frank , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

Clustering is a fundamental problem in network analysis that finds closely connected groups of nodes and separates them from other nodes in the graph, while link prediction is to predict whether two nodes in a network are likely to have a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shanfan Zhang , Wenjiao Zhang , Zhan Bu