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Predicting link directions via a recursive subgraph-based ranking

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  • Guo, Fangjian
  • Yang, Zimo
  • Zhou, Tao

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Link directions are essential to the functionality of networks and their prediction is helpful toward a better knowledge of directed networks from incomplete real-world data. We study the problem of predicting the directions of some links by using the existence and directions of the rest of links. We propose a solution by first ranking nodes in a specific order and then predicting each link as stemming from a lower-ranked node and pointing toward a higher-ranked one. The proposed ranking method works recursively by utilizing local indicators on multiple scales, each corresponding to a subgraph extracted from the original network. Experiments on real networks show that the directions of a substantial fraction of links can be correctly recovered by our method, which outperforms either purely local or global methods.

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  • Guo, Fangjian & Yang, Zimo & Zhou, Tao, 2013. "Predicting link directions via a recursive subgraph-based ranking," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 392(16), pages 3402-3408.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:392:y:2013:i:16:p:3402-3408
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.03.025
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