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Link Prediction through Deep Generative Model.

Xu-Wen Wang¹, Yize Chen², Yang-Yu Liu¹

¹Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

|October 26, 2020

Summary

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We developed a novel deep generative model for link prediction in complex networks. This method accurately infers missing connections in both directed and undirected networks without domain-specific heuristics.

Keywords:

Complex Systems Network Modeling Network Topology

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Area of Science:

Network Science
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Link prediction aims to infer missing connections in networks, crucial for fields like biomedicine and social media.
Existing methods often rely on domain-specific heuristics and are limited to undirected networks.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a universal link prediction method applicable to both directed and undirected complex networks.
To overcome limitations of heuristic-based approaches by utilizing deep generative models.

Main Methods:

Representing network adjacency matrices as images.
Employing deep generative models to learn hierarchical feature representations.
Extracting structural patterns at various scales, from subgraphs to communities.

Main Results:

The proposed method demonstrates superior performance compared to existing link prediction techniques.
The approach is effective across diverse real-world networks from multiple domains.
Hierarchical features capture network structures effectively.

Conclusions:

Deep generative models offer a powerful, heuristic-free approach to link prediction.
The image-based representation enables the capture of complex network structures.
This method advances the field of network analysis and link prediction.