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A central problem in e-commerce is determining overlapping communities among individuals or objects in the absence of external identification or tagging. We address this problem by introducing a framework that captures the notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Maria-Florina Balcan , Christian Borgs , Mark Braverman , Jennifer Chayes , Shang-Hua Teng

This paper explores the ability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in learning various forms of information for link prediction, alongside a brief review of existing link prediction methods. Our analysis reveals that GNNs cannot effectively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuming Liang , Yu Ding , Zhidong Li , Bin Liang , Siqi Zhang , Yang Wang , Fang Chen

The uneven distribution of wealth and individual economic capacities are among the main forces which shape modern societies and arguably bias the emerging social structures. However, the study of correlations between the social network and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Yannick Leo , Eric Fleury , J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Carlos Sarraute , Márton Karsai

Social networks are analyzed as graphs under the scope of discrete mathematics which have a great range of applications in different contexts such as: technology, social phenomena and biological systems. At the present this theory gives a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio Castellini , Lilia Romanelli

Many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in a partially observed network. Examples include Facebook friendship suggestions, consumer-product recommendations, and the identification of hidden interactions between actors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xi Chen , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Social media users express their political preferences via interaction with other users, by spontaneous declarations or by participation in communities within the network. This makes a social network such as Twitter a valuable data source…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Joseba Fernandez de Landa , Rodrigo Agerri

Web 2.0 applications have attracted a considerable amount of attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create light-weight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the interplay of the social and semantic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-03-12 Rossano Schifanella , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto , Benjamin Markines , Filippo Menczer

Social network analysis is a popular discipline among the social and behavioural sciences, in which the relationships between different social entities are modelled as a network. One of the most popular problems in social network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Oscar Cordón , María Minárová , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Humberto Bustince

As science advances, the academic community has published millions of research papers. Researchers devote time and effort to search relevant manuscripts when writing a paper or simply to keep up with current research. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Haofeng Jia , Erik Saule

In this study, we present a novel ranking model based on learning neighborhood relationships embedded in the index space. Given a query point, conventional approximate nearest neighbor search calculates the distances to the cluster…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Chih-Yi Chiu , Amorntip Prayoonwong , Yin-Chih Liao

Latent Euclidean embedding models a given network by representing each node in a Euclidean space, where the probability of two nodes sharing an edge is a function of the distances between the nodes. This implies that for two nodes to share…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Clifford Anderson-Bergman , Phan Nguyen , Jose Cadena Pico

We propose a social network-aware approach to studying socio-economic segregation. The key question that we address is whether patterns of segregation are more pronounced in social networks than the common spatial neighborhood-focused…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-05 Yuliia Kazmina , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Eszter Bokanyi , Frank W. Takes

Network embedding has attracted an increasing attention over the past few years. As an effective approach to solve graph mining problems, network embedding aims to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xiao Shen , Fu-Lai Chung

Common-neighbor-based method is simple yet effective to predict missing links, which assume that two nodes are more likely to be connected if they have more common neighbors. In such method, each common neighbor of two nodes contributes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Zhen Liu , Qian-Ming Zhang , Linyuan Lü , Tao Zhou

Similarity index measures the topological proximity of node pairs in a complex network. Numerous similarity indices have been defined and investigated, but the dependency of structure on the performance of similarity indices has not been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-05 Min-Woo Ahn , Woo-Sung Jung

Many real-world relations can be represented by signed networks with positive links (e.g., friendships and trust) and negative links (e.g., foes and distrust). Link prediction helps advance tasks in social network analysis such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ghazaleh Beigi , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

To enjoy more social network services, users nowadays are usually involved in multiple online sites at the same time. Aligned social networks provide more information to alleviate the problem of data insufficiency. In this paper, we target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yizhu Jiao , Yun Xiong , Jiawei Zhang , Yangyong Zhu

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

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

The availability of advanced social interaction sensing technologies provides fine grained data for social network analysis. Although traditional methods of gathering social network data may be subject to human ability to recall social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Rahman Oloritun , Alex , Pentland , Inas Khayal