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Efficient link prediction in continuous-time dynamic networks is a challenging problem that has attracted much research attention in recent years. A widely used approach to dynamic network link prediction is to extract the local structure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Ruizhi Zhang , Wei Wei , Qiming Yang , Zhenyu Shi , Xiangnan Feng , Zhiming Zheng

Network models are widely used to represent relational information among interacting units and the structural implications of these relations. Recently, social network studies have focused a great deal of attention on random graph models of…

Applications · Statistics 2010-10-06 Mark S. Handcock , Krista J. Gile

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

Network systems have become a ubiquitous modeling tool in many areas of science where nodes in a graph represent distributed processes and edges between nodes represent a form of dynamic coupling. When a network topology is already known…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-05-30 Donatello Materassi , Murti V. Salapaka

In social network science, Facebook is one of the most interesting and widely used social networks and media platforms. Its data contributed to significant evolution of social network research and link prediction techniques, which are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Tim Poštuvan , Semir Salkić , Lovro Šubelj

Uncovering factors underlying the network formation is a long-standing challenge for data mining and network analysis. In particular, the microscopic organizing principles of directed networks are less understood than those of undirected…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-08-01 Qian-Ming Zhang , Linyuan Lü , Wen-Qiang Wang , Yu-Xiao Zhu , Tao Zhou

We describe a graphical model for probabilistic relationships---an alternative to the Bayesian network---called a dependency network. The graph of a dependency network, unlike a Bayesian network, is potentially cyclic. The probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-18 David Heckerman , David Maxwell Chickering , Christopher Meek , Robert Rounthwaite , Carl Kadie

Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once; for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Austin R. Benson , Rediet Abebe , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Jon Kleinberg

Over the years, quantifying the similarity of nodes has been a hot topic in complex networks, yet little has been known about the distributions of node-similarity. In this paper, we consider a typical measure of node-similarity called the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Cunlai Pu , Jie Li , Jian Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

We consider the problem of predicting link formation in Social Learning Networks (SLN), a type of social network that forms when people learn from one another through structured interactions. While link prediction has been studied for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Rajeev Sahay , Serena Nicoll , Minjun Zhang , Tsung-Yen Yang , Carlee Joe-Wong , Kerrie A. Douglas , Christopher G Brinton

We investigate the increasingly prominent task of jointly inferring multiple networks from nodal observations. While most joint inference methods assume that observations are available at all nodes, we consider the realistic and more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

Existing causal models for link prediction assume an underlying set of inherent node factors -- an innate characteristic defined at the node's birth -- that governs the causal evolution of links in the graph. In some causal tasks, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Leonardo Cotta , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Nesreen Ahmed , Bruno Ribeiro

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

A method for embedding graphs in Euclidean space is suggested. The method connects nodes to their geographically closest neighbors and economizes on the total physical length of links. The topological and geometrical properties of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel ben-Avraham , Alejandro F. Rozenfeld , Reuven Cohen , Shlomo Havlin

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

In the real world, many topics are inter-correlated, making it challenging to investigate their structure and relationships. Understanding the interplay between topics and their relevance can provide valuable insights for researchers,…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-01 Yeseul Jeon , Jina Park , Ick Hoon Jin , Dongjun Chungc

Link prediction, or predicting the likelihood of a link in a knowledge graph based on its existing state is a key research task. It differs from a traditional link prediction task in that the links in a knowledge graph are categorized into…

Many real-world complex systems are well represented as multilayer networks; predicting interactions in those systems is one of the most pressing problems in predictive network science. To address this challenge, we introduce two stochastic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-03 Marc Tarres-Deulofeu , Antonia Godoy-Lorite , Roger Guimera , Marta Sales-Pardo

Link prediction is central to unraveling social network evolution and node relationships, as well as understanding the characteristic mechanisms of complex networks. Currently, research on link prediction for complex dynamic networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Gaoxin Zhang , Ruixing Ren , Junhui Zhao , Xiaoke Sun

This paper presents methods to compare networks where relationships between pairs of nodes in a given network are defined. We define such network distance by searching for the optimal method to embed one network into another network, prove…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro