Networks are models representing relationships between entities. Often these relationships are explicitly given, or we must learn a representation which generalizes and predicts observed behavior in underlying individual data (e.g. attributes or labels). Whether given or inferred, choosing the best representation affects subsequent tasks and questions on the network. This work focuses on model selection to evaluate network representations from data, focusing on fundamental predictive tasks on networks. We present a modular methodology using general, interpretable network models, task neighborhood functions found across domains, and several criteria for robust model selection. We demonstrate our methodology on three online user activity datasets and show that network model selection for the appropriate network task vs. an alternate task increases performance by an order of magnitude in our experiments.
Network Model Selection for Task-Focused Attributed Network Inference
Ivan Brugere,Chris Kanich,T. Berger-Wolf
Published 2017 in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
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2017
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2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
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2017-08-21
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Mathematics, Computer Science
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