Symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space

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Main Authors: Lizotte, Simon, Young, Jean-Gabriel, Allard, Antoine
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author Lizotte, Simon
Young, Jean-Gabriel
Allard, Antoine
author_facet Lizotte, Simon
Young, Jean-Gabriel
Allard, Antoine
contents Hyperbolic models are known to produce networks with properties observed empirically in most network datasets, including heavy-tailed degree distribution, high clustering, and hierarchical structures. As a result, several embeddings algorithms have been proposed to invert these models and assign hyperbolic coordinates to network data. Current algorithms for finding these coordinates, however, do not quantify uncertainty in the inferred coordinates. We present BIGUE, a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that samples the posterior distribution of a Bayesian hyperbolic random graph model. We show that the samples are consistent with current algorithms while providing added credible intervals for the coordinates and all network properties. We also show that some networks admit two or more plausible embeddings, a feature that an optimization algorithm can easily overlook.
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spellingShingle Symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space
Lizotte, Simon
Young, Jean-Gabriel
Allard, Antoine
Computation
Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
Hyperbolic models are known to produce networks with properties observed empirically in most network datasets, including heavy-tailed degree distribution, high clustering, and hierarchical structures. As a result, several embeddings algorithms have been proposed to invert these models and assign hyperbolic coordinates to network data. Current algorithms for finding these coordinates, however, do not quantify uncertainty in the inferred coordinates. We present BIGUE, a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that samples the posterior distribution of a Bayesian hyperbolic random graph model. We show that the samples are consistent with current algorithms while providing added credible intervals for the coordinates and all network properties. We also show that some networks admit two or more plausible embeddings, a feature that an optimization algorithm can easily overlook.
title Symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space
topic Computation
Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10711