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ArticleScientific reports2016

Predicting missing links and identifying spurious links via likelihood analysis.

Liming Pan, Tao Zhou, Linyuan Lü, Chin-Kun Hu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Liming PanAlibaba Research Center for Complexity Sciences, Alibaba Business College, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, People's Republic of China.
Tao ZhouWeb Sciences Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, People's Republic of China.
Linyuan LüAlibaba Research Center for Complexity Sciences, Alibaba Business College, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, People's Republic of China.
Chin-Kun HuInstitute of Physics, Academia Sinica - Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CNHangzhou Normal University · CNInstitute of Physics, Academia Sinica · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Real network data is often incomplete and noisy, where link prediction algorithms and spurious link identification algorithms can be applied. Thus far, it lacks a general method to transform network organizing mechanisms to link prediction algorithms. Here we use an algorithmic framework where a network's probability is calculated according to a predefined structural Hamiltonian that takes into account the network organizing principles, and a non-observed link is scored by the conditional probability of adding the link to the observed network. Extensive numerical simulations show that the proposed algorithm has remarkably higher accuracy than the state-of-the-art methods in uncovering missing links and identifying spurious links in many complex biological and social networks. Such method also finds applications in exploring the underlying network evolutionary mechanisms.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyHumansModels, TheoreticalNeural Networks, ComputerProbabilitySocial Networking

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PMID26961965
PMCPMC4785364
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