Graph convolutional network for structural equivalent key nodes identification in complex networks

IF 5.3 1区 数学 Q1 MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS
Asmita Patel, Buddha Singh
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Abstract

Identifying key influential nodes in complex networks is crucial for applications such as social network analysis, epidemiology, and recommendation systems. This paper proposes SE_GCN (Structural Equivalence with Graph Convolutional Network), a method that combines structural equivalence with Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to identify key nodes in complex networks. SE_GCN leverages structural similarities among nodes at various hop distances to construct a comprehensive feature matrix, which is directly used for node embedding. GCNs are employed to process this feature matrix, learning effective representations of nodes within the network. The fully connected layer of SE_GCN computes the embedded score of each node, and a sigmoid function predicts the influential probabilities of nodes. The performance of SE_GCN is evaluated by comparing it with the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model, Kendall's tau correlation, and Jaccard similarity. The proposed method is assessed using baseline methods in terms of infection rate, seed set size, correlation coefficient, and similarity index across several synthetic and real-world networks. The results demonstrate that SE_GCN outperforms existing methods, highlighting its effectiveness and robustness in identifying influential nodes.
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Chaos Solitons & Fractals
Chaos Solitons & Fractals 物理-数学跨学科应用
CiteScore
13.20
自引率
10.30%
发文量
1087
审稿时长
9 months
期刊介绍: Chaos, Solitons & Fractals strives to establish itself as a premier journal in the interdisciplinary realm of Nonlinear Science, Non-equilibrium, and Complex Phenomena. It welcomes submissions covering a broad spectrum of topics within this field, including dynamics, non-equilibrium processes in physics, chemistry, and geophysics, complex matter and networks, mathematical models, computational biology, applications to quantum and mesoscopic phenomena, fluctuations and random processes, self-organization, and social phenomena.
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