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Graph embedding methods aim at finding useful graph representations by mapping nodes to a low-dimensional vector space. It is a task with important downstream applications, such as link prediction, graph reconstruction, data visualization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Said Kerrache , Hafida Benhidour

Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Weicong Ding , Christy Lin , Prakash Ishwar

Uncertain graphs have been widely used to model complex linked data in many real-world applications, such as guaranteed-loan networks and power grids, where a node or edge may be associated with a probability. In these networks, a node…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dawei Cheng , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Sheng Xiang

We propose a new method for embedding graphs while preserving directed edge information. Learning such continuous-space vector representations (or embeddings) of nodes in a graph is an important first step for using network information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Sami Abu-El-Haija , Bryan Perozzi , Rami Al-Rfou

Uncovering anomalies in attributed networks has recently gained popularity due to its importance in unveiling outliers and flagging adversarial behavior in a gamut of data and network science applications including {the Internet of Things…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Costas Mavromatis , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

One of the major challenges in applications related to social networks, computational biology, collaboration networks etc., is to efficiently search for similar patterns in their underlying graphs. These graphs are typically noisy and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Kanigalpula Samanvi , Naveen Sivadasan

We consider the problem of graph searching with prediction recently introduced by Banerjee et al. (2022). In this problem, an agent, starting at some vertex $r$ has to traverse a (potentially unknown) graph $G$ to find a hidden goal node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Adela Frances DePavia , Erasmo Tani , Ali Vakilian

This paper addresses a method to analyze the covert social network foundation hidden behind the terrorism disaster. It is to solve a node discovery problem, which means to discover a node, which functions relevantly in a social network, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Yoshiharu Maeno , Yukio Ohsawa

Multi-armed bandit problems are receiving a great deal of attention because they adequately formalize the exploration-exploitation trade-offs arising in several industrially relevant applications, such as online advertisement and, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Giovanni Zappella

A serious challenge when finding influential actors in real-world social networks is the lack of knowledge about the structure of the underlying network. Current state-of-the-art methods rely on hand-crafted sampling algorithms; these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Priyesh Vijayan , Bryan Wilder , Balaraman Ravindran , Milind Tambe

Subgraph densities play a crucial role in network analysis, especially for the identification and interpretation of meaningful substructures in complex graphs. Localized subgraph densities, in particular, can provide valuable insights into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Connor Mattes , Esha Datta , Ali Pinar

Finding dense bipartite subgraphs and detecting the relations among them is an important problem for affiliation networks that arise in a range of domains, such as social network analysis, word-document clustering, the science of science,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-29 A. Erdem Sariyuce , Ali Pinar

In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Avik Ray , Sujay Sanghavi , Sanjay Shakkottai

The discovery of community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention as a fundamental problem for various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin

This work considers clustering nodes of a largely incomplete graph. Under the problem setting, only a small amount of queries about the edges can be made, but the entire graph is not observable. This problem finds applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Xiao Fu

Graph learning is the fundamental task of estimating unknown graph connectivity from available data. Typical approaches assume that not only is all information available simultaneously but also that all nodes can be observed. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Andrei Buciulea , Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Graph embedding methods are becoming increasingly popular in the machine learning community, where they are widely used for tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Embedding graphs in geometric spaces should aid the…

In this paper, we study the problem of early detection of fake user accounts on social networks based solely on their network connectivity with other users. Removing such accounts is a core task for maintaining the integrity of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Adam Breuer , Roee Eilat , Udi Weinsberg

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Previous security research efforts orbiting around graphs have been exclusively focusing on either (de-)anonymizing the graphs or understanding the security and privacy issues of graph neural networks. Little attention has been paid to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yun Shen , Yufei Han , Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Ting Yu , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Gianluca Stringhini