Layer Information Similarity Concerned Network Embedding

Ruili Lu, Pengfei Jiao, Yinghui Wang, Huaming Wu, Xue Chen and Fei Xiong

Complexity, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-10

Abstract: Great achievements have been made in network embedding based on single-layer networks. However, there are a variety of scenarios and systems that can be presented as multiplex networks, which can reveal more interesting patterns hidden in the data compared to single-layer networks. In the field of network embedding, in order to project the multiplex network into the latent space, it is necessary to consider richer structural information among network layers. However, current methods for multiplex network embedding mostly focus on the similarity of nodes in each layer of the network, while ignoring the similarity between different layers. In this paper, for multiplex network embedding, we propose a Layer Information Similarity Concerned Network Embedding (LISCNE) model considering the similarities between layers. Firstly, we introduce the common vector for each node shared by all layers and layer vectors for each layer where common vectors obtain the overall structure of the multiplex network and layer vectors learn semantics for each layer. We get the node embeddings in each layer by concatenating the common vectors and layer vectors with the consideration that the node embedding is related not only to the surrounding neighbors but also to the overall semantics. Furthermore, we define an index to formalize the similarity between different layers and the cross-network association. Constrained by layer similarity, the layer vectors with greater similarity are closer to each other and the aligned node embedding in these layers is also closer. To evaluate our proposed model, we conduct node classification and link prediction tasks to verify the effectiveness of our model, and the results show that LISCNE can achieve better or comparable performance compared to existing baseline methods.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/2260488

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