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Given a signed bipartite graph (SBG) G with two disjoint node sets U and V, the goal of link sign prediction is to predict the signs of potential links connecting U and V based on known positive and negative edges in G. The majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Hewen Wang , Renchi Yang , Xiaokui Xiao

Graphs are a powerful representation tool in machine learning applications, with link prediction being a key task in graph learning. Temporal link prediction in dynamic networks is of particular interest due to its potential for solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard , Mohammad Ghassemi

Circuit representation learning is a promising research direction in the electronic design automation (EDA) field. With sufficient data for pre-training, the learned general yet effective representation can help to solve multiple downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sadaf Khan , Zhengyuan Shi , Min Li , Qiang Xu

The link prediction task on knowledge graphs without explicit negative triples in the training data motivates the usage of rank-based metrics. Here, we review existing rank-based metrics and propose desiderata for improved metrics to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Charles Tapley Hoyt , Max Berrendorf , Mikhail Galkin , Volker Tresp , Benjamin M. Gyori

Graph clustering aims to divide the graph into different clusters. The recently emerging deep graph clustering approaches are largely built on graph neural networks (GNN). However, GNN is designed for general graph encoding and there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Zhiyuan Ning , Zaitian Wang , Ran Zhang , Ping Xu , Kunpeng Liu , Pengyang Wang , Wei Ju , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Erik Cambria , Chong Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) continue to achieve state-of-the-art performance on many graph learning tasks, but rely on the assumption that a given graph is a sufficient approximation of the true neighborhood structure. When a system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Steven J. Krieg , William C. Burgis , Patrick M. Soga , Nitesh V. Chawla

Network alignment is the task of establishing one-to-one correspondences between the nodes of different graphs. Although finding a plethora of applications in high-impact domains, this task is known to be NP-hard in its general form.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jiashu He , Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

Predictive tasks on relational databases are critical in real-world applications spanning e-commerce, healthcare, and social media. To address these tasks effectively, Relational Deep Learning (RDL) encodes relational data as graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Tianlang Chen , Charilaos Kanatsoulis , Jure Leskovec

Unsupervised node embedding methods (e.g., DeepWalk, LINE, and node2vec) have attracted growing interests given their simplicity and effectiveness. However, although these methods have been proved effective in a variety of applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Mingjie Sun , Jian Tang , Huichen Li , Bo Li , Chaowei Xiao , Yao Chen , Dawn Song

Knowledge graphs (KGs) composed of users, objects, and tags are widely used in web applications ranging from E-commerce, social media sites to news portals. This paper concentrates on an attractive application which aims to predict the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Chenyang Li , Xu Chen , Ya Zhang , Siheng Chen , Dan Lv , Yanfeng Wang

The Link Prediction is the task of predicting missing relations between entities of the knowledge graph. Recent work in link prediction has attempted to provide a model for increasing link prediction accuracy by using more layers in neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Mohammad Javad Saeedizade , Najmeh Torabian , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

Graphs are essential representations of many real-world data such as social networks. Recent years have witnessed the increasing efforts made to extend the neural network models to graph-structured data. These methods, which are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Yao Ma , Ziyi Guo , Zhaochun Ren , Eric Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used to compute representations of node pairs for downstream tasks such as link prediction. Yet, theoretical understanding of their expressive power has focused almost entirely on graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Veronica Lachi , Francesco Ferrini , Antonio Longa , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini , Manfred Jaeger

Directed acyclic graphs provide a fundamental tool for representing directed dependence structures in multivariate network data, and are widely used to model financial and economic networks. However, accurate and interpretable estimation…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-26 Huihang Liu , Wenhui Li , Xinyu Zhang

This article investigates and compares three approaches to link prediction in colaboration networks, namely, an ERGM (Exponential Random Graph Model; Robins et al. 2007), a GCN (Graph Convolutional Network; Kipf and Welling 2017), and a…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-05 Juan Sosa , Diego Martínez , Nicolás Guerrero

Link prediction, which consists of predicting edges based on graph features, is a fundamental task in many graph applications. As for several related problems, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which are based on an attribute-centric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Zexi Huang , Mert Kosan , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate a robust capability for representation learning on graphs with complex structures, showcasing superior performance in various applications. The majority of existing GNNs employ a graph convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jinlu Wang , Jipeng Guo , Yanfeng Sun , Junbin Gao , Shaofan Wang , Yachao Yang , Baocai Yin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great ability for node classification on graphs. However, the success of GNNs relies on abundant labeled data, while obtaining high-quality labels is costly and challenging, especially for newly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yilong Wang , Tianxiang Zhao , Zongyu Wu , Suhang Wang

Learning graph representations is a fundamental task aimed at capturing various properties of graphs in vector space. The most recent methods learn such representations for static networks. However, real world networks evolve over time and…

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