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Complex systems and relational data are often abstracted as dynamical processes on networks. To understand, predict and control their behavior, a crucial step is to extract reduced descriptions of such networks. Inspired by notions from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Renaud Lambiotte , Mauricio Barahona

In this paper, we address the problem of dynamic network embedding, that is, representing the nodes of a dynamic network as evolving vectors within a low-dimensional space. While the field of static network embedding is wide and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ed Davis , Ian Gallagher , Daniel John Lawson , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

The role of high-degree nodes, or hubs, in shaping graph dynamics and structure is well-recognized in network science, yet their influence remains underexplored in the context of dynamic graph embedding. Recent advances in representation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aleksandar Tomčić , Miloš Savić , Dušan Simić , Miloš Radovanović

In complex networks, nodes that share similar structural characteristics often exhibit similar roles (e.g type of users in a social network or the hierarchical position of employees in a company). In order to leverage this relationship, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 George Dasoulas , Giannis Nikolentzos , Kevin Scaman , Aladin Virmaux , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Network embedding assigns nodes in a network to low-dimensional representations and effectively preserves the network structure. Recently, a significant amount of progresses have been made toward this emerging network analysis paradigm. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Peng Cui , Xiao Wang , Jian Pei , Wenwu Zhu

Detecting communities or the modular structure of real-life networks (e.g. a social network or a product purchase network) is an important task because the way a network functions is often determined by its communities. Traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Swarup Chattopadhyay , Debasis Ganguly

We consider the problem of embedding a dynamic network, to obtain time-evolving vector representations of each node, which can then be used to describe changes in behaviour of individual nodes, communities, or the entire graph. Given this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-21 Ian Gallagher , Andrew Jones , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Temporal networks are an important type of network whose topological structure changes over time. Compared with methods on static networks, temporal network embedding (TNE) methods are facing three challenges: 1) it cannot describe the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shanfan Zhang , Zhan Bu

Structural network embedding is a crucial step in enabling effective downstream tasks for complex systems that aims to project a network into a lower-dimensional space while preserving similarities among nodes. We introduce a simple and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Giuseppe Squillace , Mirco Tribastone , Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

Network representation learning in low dimensional vector space has attracted considerable attention in both academic and industrial domains. Most real-world networks are dynamic with addition/deletion of nodes and edges. The existing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Sedigheh Mahdavi , Shima Khoshraftar , Aijun An

Network representation learning, as an approach to learn low dimensional representations of vertices, has attracted considerable research attention recently. It has been proven extremely useful in many machine learning tasks over large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Hao Yan , Qiran Gong , Senzhang Wang , Lin Liu , Lihong Wang , Xiang Ren

Dynamic Network Embedding (DNE) has recently attracted considerable attention due to the advantage of network embedding in various fields and the dynamic nature of many real-world networks. An input dynamic network to DNE is often assumed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Chengbin Hou , Guoji Fu , Peng Yang , Zheng Hu , Shan He , Ke Tang

Recent advances in the field of network embedding have shown that low-dimensional network representation is playing a critical role in network analysis. Most existing network embedding methods encode the local proximity of a node, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Junliang Guo , Linli Xu , Jingchang Liu

Extracting a proper dynamic network for modelling a time-dependent complex system is an important issue. Building a correct model is related to finding out critical time points where a system exhibits considerable change. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Günce Keziban Orman , Nadir Türe , Selim Balcisoy , Hasan Alp Boz

Temporal network data are increasingly available in various domains, and often represent highly complex systems with intricate structural and temporal evolutions. Due to the difficulty of processing such complex data, it may be useful to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-08 Chanon Thongprayoon , Lorenzo Livi , Naoki Masuda

A temporal network -- a collection of snapshots recording the evolution of a network whose links appear and disappear dynamically -- can be interpreted as a trajectory in graph space. In order to characterize the complex dynamics of such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-16 Lucas Lacasa , F. Javier Marín-Rodríguez , Naoki Masuda , Lluís Arola-Fernández

Nodes in networks may have one or more functions that determine their role in the system. As opposed to local proximity, which captures the local context of nodes, the role identity captures the functional "role" that nodes play in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Lili Wang , Chenghan Huang , Weicheng Ma , Ying Lu , Soroush Vosoughi

Low-dimensional vector representations of network nodes have proven successful to feed graph data to machine learning algorithms and to improve performance across diverse tasks. Most of the embedding techniques, however, have been developed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-04 Koya Sato , Mizuki Oka , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

Network embedding is an effective method to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes, which can be applied to various real-life applications such as visualization, node classification, and link prediction. Although significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Shixun Huang , Zhifeng Bao , Guoliang Li , Yanghao Zhou , J. Shane Culpepper

Networks with nodes embedded in a metric space have gained increasing interest in recent years. The effects of spatial embedding on the networks' structural characteristics, however, are rarely taken into account when studying their…

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