Complex networks are widely used to represent an abundance of real-world relations ranging from social networks to brain networks. Inferring missing links or predicting future ones based on the currently observed netw...Complex networks are widely used to represent an abundance of real-world relations ranging from social networks to brain networks. Inferring missing links or predicting future ones based on the currently observed network is known as the link prediction task. Recent network embedding based link prediction algorithms have demonstrated ground-breaking performance on link prediction accuracy. Those algorithms usually apply node attributes as the initial feature input to accelerate the convergence speed during the training process. However, they do not take full advantage of node feature information. In this paper, besides applying feature attributes as the initial input, we make better utilization of node attribute information by building attributable networks and plugging attributable networks into some typical link prediction algorithms and name this algorithm Attributive Graph Enhanced Embedding (AGEE). AGEE is able to automatically learn the weighting trades-off between the structure and the attributive networks. Numerical experiments show that AGEE can improve the link prediction accuracy by around 3% compared with SEAL, Variational Graph AutoEncoder (VGAE), and node2vec.展开更多
文摘Complex networks are widely used to represent an abundance of real-world relations ranging from social networks to brain networks. Inferring missing links or predicting future ones based on the currently observed network is known as the link prediction task. Recent network embedding based link prediction algorithms have demonstrated ground-breaking performance on link prediction accuracy. Those algorithms usually apply node attributes as the initial feature input to accelerate the convergence speed during the training process. However, they do not take full advantage of node feature information. In this paper, besides applying feature attributes as the initial input, we make better utilization of node attribute information by building attributable networks and plugging attributable networks into some typical link prediction algorithms and name this algorithm Attributive Graph Enhanced Embedding (AGEE). AGEE is able to automatically learn the weighting trades-off between the structure and the attributive networks. Numerical experiments show that AGEE can improve the link prediction accuracy by around 3% compared with SEAL, Variational Graph AutoEncoder (VGAE), and node2vec.
