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The temporal dynamics of a complex system such as a social network or a communication network can be studied by understanding the patterns of link appearance and disappearance over time. A critical task along this understanding is to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Mahmudur Rahman , Tanay Kumar Saha , Mohammad Al Hasan , Kevin S. Xu , Chandan K. Reddy

Despite their large-scale coverage, cross-domain knowledge graphs invariably suffer from inherent incompleteness and sparsity. Link prediction can alleviate this by inferring a target entity, given a source entity and a query relation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Rajarshi Bhowmik , Gerard de Melo

Link prediction plays an important role in network analysis and applications. Recently, approaches for link prediction have evolved from traditional similarity-based algorithms into embedding-based algorithms. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lei Wang , Jing Ren , Bo Xu , Jianxin Li , Wei Luo , Feng Xia

A principled approach to understand network structures is to formulate generative models. Given a collection of models, however, an outstanding key task is to determine which one provides a more accurate description of the network at hand,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-29 Toni Vallès-Català , Tiago P. Peixoto , Roger Guimerà , Marta Sales-Pardo

Link prediction is a widely studied task in Graph Representation Learning (GRL) for modeling relational data. The early theories in GRL were based on the assumption of a symmetric adjacency matrix, reflecting an undirected setting. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jun Zhai , Muberra Ozmen , Thomas Markovich

Predictive algorithms inform consequential decisions in settings with selective labels: outcomes are observed only for units selected by past decision makers. This creates an identification problem under unobserved confounding -- when…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-11-07 Ashesh Rambachan , Amanda Coston , Edward Kennedy

The statistical modeling of random networks has been widely used to uncover interaction mechanisms in complex systems and to predict unobserved links in real-world networks. In many applications, network connections are collected via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Angus Chan , Tianxi Li

Link prediction is a popular research topic in network analysis. In the last few years, new techniques based on graph embedding have emerged as a powerful alternative to heuristics. In this article, we study the problem of systematic biases…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Aakash Sinha , Rémy Cazabet , Rémi Vaudaine

Temporal networks have gained significant prominence in the past decade for modelling dynamic interactions within complex systems. A key challenge in this domain is Temporal Link Prediction (TLP), which aims to forecast future connections…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiafeng Xiong , Ahmad Zareie , Rizos Sakellariou

Network information mining is the study of the network topology, which answers a large number of application-based questions towards the structural evolution and the function of a real system. For example, the questions can be related to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-29 Yijun Ran , Tianyu Liu , Tao Jia , Xiao-Ke Xu

The task of inductive link prediction in (discrete) attributed multigraphs infers missing attributed links (relations) between nodes in new test multigraphs. Traditional relational learning methods face the challenge of limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jincheng Zhou , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Bruno Ribeiro

Understanding the structures why links are formed is an important and prominent research topic. In this paper, we therefore consider the link prediction problem in face-to-face contact networks, and analyze the predictability of new and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Christoph Scholz , Martin Atzmueller , Gerd Stumme

We present a dynamic prediction framework for binary sequences that is based on a Bernoulli generalization of the auto-regressive process. Our approach lends itself easily to variants of the standard link prediction problem for a sequence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-24 Xiaohan Yan , Avleen S. Bijral

Graphs are a powerful representation tool in machine learning applications, with link prediction being a key task in graph learning. Temporal link prediction in dynamic networks is of particular interest due to its potential for solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard , Mohammad Ghassemi

Exploring statistics of locally connected subgraph patterns (also known as network motifs) has helped researchers better understand the structure and function of biological and online social networks (OSNs). Nowadays the massive size of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley , Junzhou Zhao , Xiaohong Guan

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

Dynamic Link Prediction (DLP) addresses the prediction of future links in evolving networks. However, accurately portraying the performance of DLP algorithms poses challenges that might impede progress in the field. Importantly, common…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Raphaël Romero , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie , Jefrey Lijffijt

Link directions are essential to the functionality of networks and their prediction is helpful towards a better knowledge of directed networks from incomplete real-world data. We study the problem of predicting the directions of some links…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-16 Fangjian Guo , Zimo Yang , Tao Zhou

The problem of predicting links in large networks is an important task in a variety of practical applications, including social sciences, biology and computer security. In this paper, statistical techniques for link prediction based on the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-09-01 Francesco Sanna Passino , Anna S. Bertiger , Joshua C. Neil , Nicholas A. Heard

We present a new inference method based on approximate Bayesian computation for estimating parameters governing an entire network based on link-traced samples of that network. To do this, we first take summary statistics from an observed…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-17 Jack Davis , Steven K. Thompson