Anchor Link Prediction in Online Social Network Using Graph Embedding and Binary Classification

Author(s):  
Vang V. Le ◽  
Tin T. Tran ◽  
Phuong N. H. Pham ◽  
Vaclav Snasel
Author(s):  
Anand Kumar Gupta ◽  
Neetu Sardana

The objective of an online social network is to amplify the stream of information among the users. This goal can be accomplished by maximizing interconnectivity among users using link prediction techniques. Existing link prediction techniques uses varied heuristics such as similarity score to predict possible connections. Link prediction can be considered a binary classification problem where probable class outcomes are presence and absence of connections. One of the challenges in classification is to decide threshold value. Since the social network is exceptionally dynamic in nature and each user possess different features, it is difficult to choose a static, common threshold which decides whether two non-connected users will form interconnectivity. This article proposes a novel technique, FIXT, that dynamically decides the threshold value for predicting the possibility of new link formation. The article evaluates the performance of FIXT with six baseline techniques. The comparative results depict that FIXT achieves accuracy up to 93% and outperforms baseline techniques.


Author(s):  
Xingbo Du ◽  
Junchi Yan ◽  
Hongyuan Zha

Link prediction and network alignment are two important problems in social network analysis and other network related applications. Considerable efforts have been devoted to these two problems while often in an independent way to each other. In this paper we argue that these two tasks are relevant and present a joint link prediction and network alignment framework, whereby a novel cross-graph node embedding technique is devised to allow for information propagation. Our approach can either work with a few initial vertex correspondence as seeds, or from scratch. By extensive experiments on public benchmark, we show that link prediction and network alignment can benefit to each other especially for improving the recall for both tasks.


Author(s):  
Praveen Kumar Bhanodia ◽  
Kamal Kumar Sethi ◽  
Aditya Khamparia ◽  
Babita Pandey ◽  
Shaligram Prajapat

Link prediction in social network has gained momentum with the inception of machine learning. The social networks are evolving into smart dynamic networks possessing various relevant information about the user. The relationship between users can be approximated by evaluation of similarity between the users. Online social network (OSN) refers to the formulation of association (relationship/links) between users known as nodes. Evolution of OSNs such as Facebook, Twitter, Hi-Fi, LinkedIn has provided a momentum to the growth of such social networks, whereby millions of users are joining it. The online social network evolution has motivated scientists and researchers to analyze the data and information of OSN in order to recommend the future friends. Link prediction is a problem instance of such recommendation systems. Link prediction is basically a phenomenon through which potential links between nodes are identified on a network over the period of time. In this chapter, the authors describe the similarity metrics that further would be instrumental in recognition of future links between nodes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Ma ◽  
Yongcong Luo

It is a fact that most of the rumours related to hot events or emergencies can be propagated rapidly on the hotbed of online social networks. In order to track the standpoints of the participants of rumour topics to regulate the development of rumour, we propose a multi-features model combining classifiers to classify the rumour standpoints, defined as classifying the standpoints of online social network conversations into one of ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, ‘comment’ or ‘query’ on previous comment about the rumour. Testing the performance of the combinatorial model – decision tree with adaptive boosting classifier and extremely randomised trees with adaptive boosting classifier – on different features, that is, structuring the weight matrix based on combination of term frequency (TF), inverse document frequency (IDF) and term frequency – inverse document frequency (TFIDF) method and constructing the features vector with Word2vec method. The experiments show that the combinatorial classifiers that exploit different combination features in the online social network conversations outperform binary classification; especially, the topology of the social network has a highly positive impact on the classification results. Furthermore, the ‘comment’ and ‘query’ of rumour standpoints have a better classification effect based on the features of different categories.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Islam Elkabani ◽  
Roa A. Aboo Khachfeh

AbstractOnline social networks are highly dynamic and sparse. One of the main problems in analyzing these networks is the problem of predicting the existence of links between users on these networks: the link prediction problem. Many studies have been conducted to predict links using a variety of techniques like the decision tree and the logistic regression approaches. In this work, we will illustrate the use of the rough set theory in predicting links over the Facebook social network based on homophilic features. Other supervised learning algorithms are also employed in our experiments and compared with the rough set classifier, such as naive Bayes, J48 decision tree, support vector machine, logistic regression, and multilayer perceptron neural network. Moreover, we studied the influence of the “common groups” and “common page likes” homophilic features on predicting friendship between users of Facebook, and also studied the effect of using the Jaccard coefficient in measuring the similarity between users’ homophilic attributes compared with using the overlap coefficient. We conducted our experiments on two different datasets obtained from the Facebook online social network, where users in each dataset live within the same geographical region. The results showed that the rough set classifier significantly outperformed the other classifiers in all experiments. The results also demonstrated that the common groups and the common page likes features have a significant influence on predicting the friendship between users of Facebook. Finally, the results revealed that using the overlap coefficient homophilic features provided better results than that of the Jaccard coefficient features.


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