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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification tasks. However, recent studies have revealed various biases in GNNs stemming from both node features and graph topology. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Haoyu Han , Xiaorui Liu , Feng Shi , MohamadAli Torkamani , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

Link prediction (inferring missing or future connections between nodes in a graph) is a fundamental problem in network science with widespread applications in, e.g., biological systems, recommender systems, finance and cybersecurity. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Riccardo Porcedda , Francesca Chiaromonte , Fabrizio Lillo , Andrea Vandin

We consider the link prediction problem in a partially observed network, where the objective is to make predictions in the unobserved portion of the network. Many existing methods reduce link prediction to binary classification problem.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-23 Bopeng Li , Sougata Chaudhuri , Ambuj Tewari

We explore link prediction as a proxy for automatically surfacing documents from existing literature that might be topically or contextually relevant to a new document. Our model uses transformer-based graph embeddings to encode the meaning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-29 William Watson , Lawrence Yong

Computing the probability of an edge's existence in a graph network is known as link prediction. While traditional methods calculate the similarity between two given nodes in a static network, recent research has focused on evaluating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Kazi Zainab Khanam , Aditya Singhal , Vijay Mago

Link prediction is a fundamental task in graph machine learning with applications, ranging from social recommendation to knowledge graph completion. Fairness in this setting is critical, as biased predictions can exacerbate societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 João Mattos , Debolina Halder Lina , Arlei Silva

Network embedding methods map a network's nodes to vectors in an embedding space, in such a way that these representations are useful for estimating some notion of similarity or proximity between pairs of nodes in the network. The quality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Alexandru Mara , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Link prediction is a crucial task in graph machine learning with diverse applications. We explore the interplay between node attributes and graph topology and demonstrate that incorporating pre-trained node attributes improves the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ayan Chatterjee , Robin Walters , Giulia Menichetti , Tina Eliassi-Rad

Open-world link prediction supports the knowledge representation and link prediction of new entities, enhancing the practical value of knowledge graphs in real-world applications. However, as research deepens, the performance improvements…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiang Xiaobo , Yongru Chen

Textual-edge Graphs (TEGs), characterized by rich text annotations on edges, are increasingly significant in network science due to their ability to capture rich contextual information among entities. Existing works have proposed various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Chen Ling , Zhuofeng Li , Yuntong Hu , Zheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Liu , Shuang Zheng , Jian Pei , Liang Zhao

Within network analysis, the analytical maximum entropy framework has been very successful for different tasks as network reconstruction and filtering. In a recent paper, the same framework was used for link-prediction for monopartite…

Link directions are essential to the functionality of networks and their prediction is helpful towards a better knowledge of directed networks from incomplete real-world data. We study the problem of predicting the directions of some links…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-16 Fangjian Guo , Zimo Yang , Tao Zhou

Relational data are ubiquitous in real-world data applications, e.g., in social network analysis or biological modeling, but networks are nearly always incompletely observed. The state-of-the-art for predicting missing links in the hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bisman Singh , Lucy Van Kleunen , Aaron Clauset

Learning the network structure underlying data is an important problem in machine learning. This paper introduces a novel prior to study the inference of scale-free networks, which are widely used to model social and biological networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Qingming Tang , Siqi Sun , Jinbo Xu

Predicting edges in networks is a key problem in social network analysis and involves reasoning about the relationships between nodes based on the structural properties of a network. In particular, link prediction can be used to analyse how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mateusz Tarkowski , Tomasz Michalak , Michael Wooldridge

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

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend basic Neural Networks (NNs) by additionally making use of graph structure based on the relational inductive bias (edge bias), rather than treating the nodes as collections of independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sitao Luan , Chenqing Hua , Qincheng Lu , Jiaqi Zhu , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup

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

Methods that learn representations of nodes in a graph play a critical role in network analysis since they enable many downstream learning tasks. We propose Graph2Gauss - an approach that can efficiently learn versatile node embeddings on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann