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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 is a key problem for network-structured data, attracting considerable research efforts owing to its diverse applications. The current link prediction methods focus on general networks and are overly dependent on either the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Min Zhou , Bisheng Li , Menglin Yang , Lujia Pan

Link prediction, a foundational task in complex network analysis, has extensive applications in critical scenarios such as social recommendation, drug target discovery, and knowledge graph completion. However, existing evaluations of…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-12-30 Yilin Bi , Junhao Bian , Shuyan Wan , Shuaijia Wang , Tao Zhou

This study deals with the missing link prediction problem: the problem of predicting the existence of missing connections between entities of interest. We address link prediction using coupled analysis of relational datasets represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Beyza Ermiş , Evrim Acar , A. Taylan Cemgil

Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most successful and fundamental techniques in recommendation systems. In recent years, Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based CF models, such as NGCF [31], LightGCN [10] and GTN [9] have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Hao-Ming Fu , Patrick Poirson , Kwot Sin Lee , Chen Wang

Multiplex networks allow us to study a variety of complex systems where nodes connect to each other in multiple ways, for example friend, family, and co-worker relations in social networks. Link prediction is the branch of network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Michele Coscia , Christian Borgelt , Michael Szell

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results on various language and vision tasks. Recently, there has been growing interest in applying LLMs to graph-based tasks, particularly on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs). However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zhongmou He , Jing Zhu , Shengyi Qian , Joyce Chai , Danai Koutra

Over the past decade, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have transformed graph representation learning. In the widely adopted message-passing GNN framework, nodes refine their representations by aggregating information from neighboring nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Astrit Tola , Jack Myrick , Baris Coskunuzer

Networks are ubiquitous in the real world. Link prediction, as one of the key problems for network-structured data, aims to predict whether there exists a link between two nodes. The traditional approaches are based on the explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Wei Wu , Bin Li , Chuan Luo , Wolfgang Nejdl

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

Some networked systems can be better modelled by multilayer structure where the individual nodes develop relationships in multiple layers. Multilayer networks with similar nodes across layers are also known as multiplex networks. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Shaghayegh Najari , Mostafa Salehi , Vahid Ranjbar , Mahdi Jalili

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received remarkable success in link prediction (GNNLP) tasks. Existing efforts first predefine the subgraph for the whole dataset and then apply GNNs to encode edge representations by leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Qiaoyu Tan , Xin Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Daochen Zha , Li Li , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

Bipartite networks serve as highly suitable models to represent systems involving interactions between two distinct types of entities, such as online dating platforms, job search services, or ecommerce websites. These models can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Şükrü Demir İnan Özer , Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut

Graph neural networks (GNNs) for link prediction can loosely be divided into two broad categories. First, \emph{node-wise} architectures pre-compute individual embeddings for each node that are later combined by a simple decoder to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuxin Wang , Xiannian Hu , Quan Gan , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu , David Wipf

Graph Machine Learning (GML) has numerous applications, such as node/graph classification and link prediction, in real-world domains. Providing human-understandable explanations for GML models is a challenging yet fundamental task to foster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Claudio Borile , Alan Perotti , André Panisson

Link prediction, as a fundamental task for graph neural networks (GNNs), has boasted significant progress in varied domains. Its success is typically influenced by the expressive power of node representation, but recent developments reveal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yakun Wang , Daixin Wang , Hongrui Liu , Binbin Hu , Yingcui Yan , Qiyang Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhang

Link-prediction is an active research field within network theory, aiming at uncovering missing connections or predicting the emergence of future relationships from the observed network structure. This paper represents our contribution to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-20 Federica Parisi , Guido Caldarelli , Tiziano Squartini

Link prediction is a fundamental task in dynamic graph learning (DGL), inherently shaped by the topology of the DG. Recent advancements in dynamic graph neural networks (DGNN), primarily by modeling the relationships among nodes via a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ling Wang , Minglian Han

Link prediction in collaboration networks is often solved by identifying structural properties of existing nodes that are disconnected at one point in time, and that share a link later on. The maximally possible recall rate or upper bound…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinseok Kim , Jana Diesner

Link prediction (LP), inferring the connectivity between nodes, is a significant research area in graph data, where a link represents essential information on relationships between nodes. Although graph neural network (GNN)-based models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Junwon You , Eunwoo Heo , Jae-Hun Jung