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Many datasets can naturally be represented as graph where nodes represent instances and links represent relationships between those instances. A fundamental problem with these types of data is that the link information in the graph may be of dubious quality; links may incorrectly exist between unrelated nodes and links may be missing between two related nodes. The goal of link prediction is to predict the existence of incorrect or missing links between the nodes of the graph.
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Inferring the existences of edges between nodes in a graph has traditionally been referred to as link prediction (Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg 2003a; Taskar et al. 2003). Link prediction is a challenging problem that has been studied in various guises in different domains. For example, in social network analysis, there is work on predicting friendship links (Zheleva et al. 2008), event participation links (i.e., coauthorship O’Madadhain...
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Namata, G., Getoor, L. (2017). Link Prediction. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_486
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