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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,…

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Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

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When network and graph theory are used in the study of complex systems, a typically finite set of nodes of the network under consideration is frequently either explicitly or implicitly considered representative of a much larger finite or…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-18 Jobst Heitzig , Jonathan F. Donges , Yong Zou , Norbert Marwan , Jürgen Kurths

Dimensionality is one of the most important properties of complex physical systems. However, only recently this concept has been considered in the context of complex networks. In this paper we further develop the previously introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-19 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Node embedding refers to techniques that generate low-dimensional vector representations of nodes in a graph while preserving specific properties of the nodes. A key challenge in the field is developing scalable methods that can preserve…

Network classification aims to group networks (or graphs) into distinct categories based on their structure. We study the connection between classification of a network and of its constituent nodes, and whether nodes from networks in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Saray Shai , Isaac Jacobs , Peter J. Mucha

Network (or Graph) Alignment Algorithms aims to reveal structural similarities among graphs. In particular Local Network Alignment Algorithms (LNAs) finds local regions of similarity among two or more networks. Such algorithms are in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Pietro Hiram Guzzi

In complex networks there are overlapping substructures or "circles" that consist of nodes belonging to multiple cohesive subgroups. Yet the role of these overlapping nodes in influence spreading processes remains underexplored. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kosti Koistinen , Vesa Kuikka , Kimmo Kaski

Network embedding is a fervid topic in current networks science and observes that most real complex systems can be embedded in hidden metrics space and emerge as the geometrical property, where the geometric distance between nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Zongning Wu , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Similar to community detection, partitioning the nodes of a network according to their structural roles aims to identify fundamental building blocks of a network. The found partitions can be used, e.g., to simplify descriptions of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Michael Scholkemper , Michael T. Schaub

Recent interest in graph embedding methods has focused on learning a single representation for each node in the graph. But can nodes really be best described by a single vector representation? In this work, we propose a method for learning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Alessandro Epasto , Bryan Perozzi

Previous work in network analysis has focused on modeling the mixed-memberships of node roles in the graph, but not the roles of edges. We introduce the edge role discovery problem and present a generalizable framework for learning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-09 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Ryan A. Rossi , Theodore L. Willke , Rong Zhou

Network embedding aims to represent each node in a network as a low-dimensional feature vector that summarizes the given node's (extended) network neighborhood. The nodes' feature vectors can then be used in various downstream machine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Shawn Gu , Tijana Milenkovic

Network representation learning (NRL) advances the conventional graph mining of social networks, knowledge graphs, and complex biomedical and physics information networks. Over dozens of network representation learning algorithms have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jingya Zhou , Ling Liu , Wenqi Wei , Jianxi Fan

Node embedding methods find latent lower-dimensional representations which are used as features in machine learning models. In the last few years, these methods have become extremely popular as a replacement for manual feature engineering.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Christoph Martin , Meike Riebeling

Heterogeneous information network (HIN) embedding aims to embed multiple types of nodes into a low-dimensional space. Although most existing HIN embedding methods consider heterogeneous relations in HINs, they usually employ one single…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuanfu Lu , Chuan Shi , Linmei Hu , Zhiyuan Liu

Overlapping communities are key characteristics of the structure and function analysis of complex networks. Shared or overlapping nodes within overlapping communities can form either subcommunities or act as intersections between larger…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Vesa Kuikka , Kosti Koistinen , Kimmo K Kaski

Degree distribution of nodes, especially a power law degree distribution, has been regarded as one of the most significant structural characteristics of social and information networks. Node degree, however, only discloses the first-order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-09-23 Ajay Sridharan , Yong Gao , Kui Wu , James Nastos

Recent successes in word embedding and document embedding have motivated researchers to explore similar representations for networks and to use such representations for tasks such as edge prediction, node label prediction, and community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Mohammad Raihanul Islam , B. Aditya Prakash , Naren Ramakrishnan

The network embedding task is to represent the node in the network as a low-dimensional vector while incorporating the topological and structural information. Most existing approaches solve this problem by factorizing a proximity matrix,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Yuchen Liang , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki