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Proximity-based Methods for Link Prediction in Graphs with R package ‘linkprediction’
Proximity-based Methods for Link Prediction in Graphs with R package ‘linkprediction’

Author(s): Michał Bojanowski, Bartosz Chroł
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Summary/Abstract: Link prediction is a problem of predicting future edges of an undirected graph based on a single snapshot of data of that graph. Vertex proximity measures are indicies giving numerical scores for every pair of vertices in a graph that can be used for predicting future edges. This short note describes an R package ‘linkprediction’ implementing 20 different vertex similarity and proximity measures from the literature. The article provides the definitions of implemented measures, describes the main user-facing functions, and illustrates the use of the methods with a problem of predicting future co-authorship relations between researchers of the University of Warsaw.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 5-28
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English