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Dependency trees convey rich structural information that is proven useful for extracting relations among entities in text. However, how to effectively make use of relevant information while ignoring irrelevant information from the…

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One of the most persistent challenges in network science is the development of various synthetic graph models to support subsequent analyses. Among the most notable frameworks addressing this issue is the Artificial Benchmark for Community…

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The ability to simulate realistic networks based on empirical data is an important task across scientific disciplines, from epidemiology to computer science. Often simulation approaches involve selecting a suitable network generative model…

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Representation learning on graphs that evolve has recently received significant attention due to its wide application scenarios, such as bioinformatics, knowledge graphs, and social networks. The propagation of information in graphs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Mingyi Liu , Zhiying Tu , Xiaofei Xu , Zhongjie Wang

Random graphs, where the connections between nodes are considered random variables, have wide applicability in the social sciences. Exponential-family Random Graph Models (ERGM) have shown themselves to be a useful class of models for…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-08-02 Ian Fellows , Mark S. Handcock

The rapid development of next-generation networking technologies underscores their transformative role in revolutionizing modern communication systems, enabling faster, more reliable, and highly interconnected solutions. However, such…

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Inferencing with network data necessitates the mapping of its nodes into a vector space, where the relationships are preserved. However, with multi-layered networks, where multiple types of relationships exist for the same set of nodes, it…

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Structure inference is an important task for network data processing and analysis in data science. In recent years, quite a few approaches have been developed to learn the graph structure underlying a set of observations captured in a data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Eda Bayram , Dorina Thanou , Elif Vural , Pascal Frossard

Network analysis has become an increasingly prevalent research tool across a vast range of scientific fields. Here, we focus on the particular issue of comparing network statistics, i.e. graph-level measures of network structural features,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-07 Anna Smith , Catherine A. Calder , Christopher R. Browning

The era of data deluge has sparked the interest in graph-based learning methods in a number of disciplines such as sociology, biology, neuroscience, or engineering. In this paper, we introduce a graph recurrent neural network (GRNN) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

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The co-occurrence association is widely observed in many empirical data. Mining the information in co-occurrence data is essential for advancing our understanding of systems such as social networks, ecosystem, and brain network. Measuring…

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Many network systems are composed of interdependent but distinct types of interactions, which cannot be fully understood in isolation. These different types of interactions are often represented as layers, attributes on the edges or as a…

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Probabilistic time series forecasting involves estimating the distribution of future based on its history, which is essential for risk management in downstream decision-making. We propose a deep state space model for probabilistic time…

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We introduce an architecture based on deep hierarchical decompositions to learn effective representations of large graphs. Our framework extends classic R-decompositions used in kernel methods, enabling nested part-of-part relations. Unlike…

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Social network analysis is an important problem in data mining. A fundamental step for analyzing social networks is to encode network data into low-dimensional representations, i.e., network embeddings, so that the network topology…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Ninghao Liu , Xia Hu

Gaussian Graphical Models provide a convenient framework for representing dependencies between variables. Recently, this tool has received a high interest for the discovery of biological networks. The literature focuses on the case where a…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-05-13 Julien Chiquet , Yves Grandvalet , Christophe Ambroise

This paper introduces a tensor neural network (TNN) to address nonparametric regression problems, leveraging its distinct sub-network structure to effectively facilitate variable separation and enhance the approximation of complex,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Yongxin Li , Yifan Wang , Zhongshuo Lin , Hehu Xie

The high cost of data labeling often results in node label shortage in real applications. To improve node classification accuracy, graph-based semi-supervised learning leverages the ample unlabeled nodes to train together with the scarce…

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