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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 495, Issue -, Pages 1-17Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.12.018
Keywords
Link prediction; Heterogeneous networks; Meta-path; BP neural network
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71690233, 71501182, 71331008]
- Research Project of National University of Defense Technology [JS16-03-08]
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Most real-world systems, composed of different types of objects connected via many interconnections, can be abstracted as various complex heterogeneous networks. Link prediction for heterogeneous networks is of great significance for mining missing links and reconfiguring networks according to observed information, with considerable applications in, for example, friend and location recommendations and disease-gene candidate detection. In this paper, we put forward a novel integrated framework, called MPBP (Meta-Path feature-based BP neural network model), to predict multiple types of links for heterogeneous networks. More specifically, the concept of meta-path is introduced, followed by the extraction of meta-path features for heterogeneous networks. Next, based on the extracted meta-path features, a supervised link prediction model is built with a three-layer BP neural network. Then, the solution algorithm of the proposed link prediction model is put forward to obtain predicted results by iteratively training the network. Last, numerical experiments on the dataset of examples of a gene-disease network and a combat network are conducted to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed MPBP. It shows that the MPBP with very good performance is superior to the baseline methods. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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