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Main Authors: Huerta, Diego, Arizmendi, Gerardo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01630
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author Huerta, Diego
Arizmendi, Gerardo
author_facet Huerta, Diego
Arizmendi, Gerardo
contents In this work, we present a probabilistic model for directed graphs where nodes have attributes and labels. This model serves as a generative classifier capable of predicting the labels of unseen nodes using either maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori estimations. The predictions made by this model are highly interpretable, contrasting with some common methods for node classification, such as graph neural networks. We applied the model to two datasets, demonstrating predictive performance that is competitive with, and even superior to, state-of-the-art methods. One of the datasets considered is adapted from the Math Genealogy Project, which has not previously been utilized for this purpose. Consequently, we evaluated several classification algorithms on this dataset to compare the performance of our model and provide benchmarks for this new resource.
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spellingShingle A Probabilistic Model for Node Classification in Directed Graphs
Huerta, Diego
Arizmendi, Gerardo
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
In this work, we present a probabilistic model for directed graphs where nodes have attributes and labels. This model serves as a generative classifier capable of predicting the labels of unseen nodes using either maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori estimations. The predictions made by this model are highly interpretable, contrasting with some common methods for node classification, such as graph neural networks. We applied the model to two datasets, demonstrating predictive performance that is competitive with, and even superior to, state-of-the-art methods. One of the datasets considered is adapted from the Math Genealogy Project, which has not previously been utilized for this purpose. Consequently, we evaluated several classification algorithms on this dataset to compare the performance of our model and provide benchmarks for this new resource.
title A Probabilistic Model for Node Classification in Directed Graphs
topic Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01630