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Structural network embedding is a crucial step in enabling effective downstream tasks for complex systems that aims to project a network into a lower-dimensional space while preserving similarities among nodes. We introduce a simple and…

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Recently, considerable research attention has been paid to network embedding, a popular approach to construct feature vectors of vertices. Due to the curse of dimensionality and sparsity in graphical datasets, this approach has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Xi Liu , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Nick Duffield , Rui Chen , Muhe Xie , Xidao Wen

Temporal heterogeneous information network (temporal HIN) embedding, aiming to represent various types of nodes of different timestamps into low dimensional spaces while preserving structural and semantic information, is of vital importance…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Qijie Bai , Jiawen Guo , Haiwei Zhang , Changli Nie , Lin Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

Over the past years, embedding learning on networks has shown tremendous results in link prediction tasks for complex systems, with a wide range of real-life applications. Learning a representation for each node in a knowledge graph allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Orell Trautmann , Olaf Wolkenhauer , Clémence Réda

Link prediction can be used to extract missing information, identify spurious interactions as well as forecast network evolution. Network embedding is a methodology to assign coordinates to nodes in a low dimensional vector space. By…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Ziyu Li , Naoki Masuda , Petter Holme , Huijuan Wang

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Multilayer networks offer a powerful framework for modeling complex systems across diverse domains, effectively capturing multiple types of connections and interdependent subsystems commonly found in real world scenarios. To analyze these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Martin Guillemaud , Vera Dinkelacker , Mario Chavez

Networks with nodes embedded in a metric space have gained increasing interest in recent years. The effects of spatial embedding on the networks' structural characteristics, however, are rarely taken into account when studying their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-06 Marc Wiedermann , Jonathan F. Donges , Jürgen Kurths , Reik V. Donner

In a temporal network causal paths are characterized by the fact that links from a source to a target must respect the chronological order. In this article we study the causal paths structure in temporal networks of human face to face…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Agostino Funel

A temporal network is a dynamic graph where every edge is assigned an integer time label that indicates at which discrete time step the edge is available. We consider the problem of hierarchically decomposing the network and introduce an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Lutz Oettershagen , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Giuseppe F. Italiano

Most social, technological and biological networks are embedded in a finite dimensional space, and the distance between two nodes influences the likelihood that they link to each other. Indeed, in social systems, the chance that two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-27 Paul Balister , Chaoming Song , Oliver Riordan , Bela Bollobas , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Embedding is a common technique for analyzing multi-dimensional data. However, the embedding projection cannot always form significant and interpretable visual structures that foreshadow underlying data patterns. We propose an approach that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jie Li , Chun-qi Zhou

This article proposes methods to model nonstationary temporal graph processes. This corresponds to modelling the observation of edge variables (relationships between objects) indicating interactions between pairs of nodes (or objects)…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-07 Maria Suveges , Sofia C. Olhede

A temporal graph is a graph in which the edge set can change from one time step to the next. The temporal graph exploration problem TEXP is the problem of computing a foremost exploration schedule for a temporal graph, i.e., a temporal walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Frank Kammer

Dynamical systems are often time-varying, whose modeling requires a function that evolves with respect to time. Recent studies such as the neural ordinary differential equation proposed a time-dependent neural network, which provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bum Jun Kim , Yoshinobu Kawahara , Sang Woo Kim

We address the problem of learning a distributed representation of entities in a relational database using a low-dimensional embedding. Low-dimensional embeddings aim to encapsulate a concise vector representation for an underlying dataset…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Siddhant Arora , Srikanta Bedathur

The power of any kind of network approach lies in the ability to simplify a complex system so that one can better understand its function as a whole. Sometimes it is beneficial, however, to include more information than in a simple graph of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-21 Petter Holme

Being fundamentally a non-equilibrium process, synchronization comes with unavoidable energy costs and has to be maintained under the constraint of limited resources. Such resource constraints are often reflected as a finite coupling budget…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuanzhao Zhang , Steven H. Strogatz

We propose a neural embedding algorithm called Network Vector, which learns distributed representations of nodes and the entire networks simultaneously. By embedding networks in a low-dimensional space, the algorithm allows us to compare…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Hao Wu , Kristina Lerman

In recent years, network embedding methods have garnered increasing attention because of their effectiveness in various information retrieval tasks. The goal is to learn low-dimensional representations of vertexes in an information network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Chih-Ming Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yian Chen , Ming-Feng Tsai