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Link prediction is a crucial task in graph machine learning, where the goal is to infer missing or future links within a graph. Traditional approaches leverage heuristic methods based on widely observed connectivity patterns, offering broad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Kaiwen Dong , Haitao Mao , Zhichun Guo , Nitesh V. Chawla

Learning fair graph representations for downstream applications is becoming increasingly important, but existing work has mostly focused on improving fairness at the global level by either modifying the graph structure or objective function…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-26 April Chen , Ryan Rossi , Nedim Lipka , Jane Hoffswell , Gromit Chan , Shunan Guo , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, including computer vision and natural language processing. However, training an effective DNN model still poses challenges. This paper aims to propose a method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hejie Ying , Mengmeng Song , Yaohong Tang , Shungen Xiao , Zimin Xiao

Link prediction is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. While most of the literature focuses on transductive link prediction that requires all the graph nodes and majority of links in training, inductive link prediction, which only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Huidong Liang , Junbin Gao

Link prediction aims to infer the link existence between pairs of nodes in networks/graphs. Despite their wide application, the success of traditional link prediction algorithms is hindered by three major challenges -- link sparsity, node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Philip S. Yu

Link prediction is a common problem in network science that transects many disciplines. The goal is to forecast the appearance of new links or to find links missing in the network. Typical methods for link prediction use the topology of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Huda Nassar , Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich

A link prediction (LP) algorithm is given a graph, and has to rank, for each node, other nodes that are candidates for new linkage. LP is strongly motivated by social search and recommendation applications. LP techniques often focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Abir De , Niloy Ganguly , Soumen Chakrabarti

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to various fields for learning over graph-structured data. They have shown significant improvements over traditional heuristic methods in various tasks such as node classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Seongjun Yun , Seoyoon Kim , Junhyun Lee , Jaewoo Kang , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Although recent advancements in end-to-end learning-based link prediction (LP) methods have shown remarkable capabilities, the significance of traditional similarity-based LP methods persists in unsupervised scenarios where there are no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Chenhan Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Zhiyi Tian , James Jianqiao Yu , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , An Liu , Shui Yu

We consider the graph link prediction task, which is a classic graph analytical problem with many real-world applications. With the advances of deep learning, current link prediction methods commonly compute features from subgraphs centered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lei Cai , Jundong Li , Jie Wang , Shuiwang Ji

Link prediction is an elemental challenge in network science, which has already found applications in guiding laboratorial experiments, digging out drug targets, recommending friends in social networks, probing mechanisms in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-26 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Yan-Li Lee , Ye Yuan , Tao Zhou

Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models perform well on link prediction but struggle with unseen entities, relations, and especially literals, limiting their use in dynamic, heterogeneous graphs. In contrast, pretrained large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Alkid Baci , Luke Friedrichs , Caglar Demir , N'Dah Jean Kouagou , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great potential in learning on graphs, but they are known to perform sub-optimally on link prediction tasks. Existing GNNs are primarily designed to learn node-wise representations and usually fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tianyi Zhang , Haoteng Yin , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li , Anshumali Shrivastava

Negative sampling plays a crucial role in training successful sequential recommendation models. Instead of merely employing random negative sample selection, numerous strategies have been proposed to mine informative negative samples to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Lu Fan , Jiashu Pu , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the dominant approach for graph representation learning, their performance on link prediction tasks does not always surpass that of traditional heuristic methods such as Common Neighbors and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Lei Wang , Darong Lai

Locally supervised learning aims to train a neural network based on a local estimation of the global loss function at each decoupled module of the network. Auxiliary networks are typically appended to the modules to approximate the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Hasnain Irshad Bhatti , Jaekyun Moon

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

Link prediction is a fundamental problem in many graph based applications, such as protein-protein interaction prediction. Graph neural network (GNN) has recently been widely used for link prediction. However, existing GNN based link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Kai-Lang Yao , Wu-Jun Li

After observing a snapshot of a social network, a link prediction (LP) algorithm identifies node pairs between which new edges will likely materialize in future. Most LP algorithms estimate a score for currently non-neighboring node pairs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Indradyumna Roy , Abir De , Soumen Chakrabarti

Link prediction in a graph is the problem of detecting the missing links that would be formed in the near future. Using a graph representation of the data, we can convert the problem of classification to the problem of link prediction which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Seyed Amin Fadaee , Maryam Amir Haeri