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| author | Jaskari, Joel Roy, Chandreyee Ogushi, Fumiko Saukkoriipi, Mikko Sahlsten, Jaakko Kaski, Kimmo |
| author_facet | Jaskari, Joel Roy, Chandreyee Ogushi, Fumiko Saukkoriipi, Mikko Sahlsten, Jaakko Kaski, Kimmo |
| contents | Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art data-driven tool for modeling connectivity data of graph-structured complex networks and integrating information of their nodes and edges in space and time. However, as of yet, the analysis of social networks using the time series of people's mobile connectivity data has not been extensively investigated. In the present study, we investigate four snapshot - based temporal GNNs in predicting the phone call and SMS activity between users of a mobile communication network. In addition, we develop a simple non - GNN baseline model using recently proposed EdgeBank method. Our analysis shows that the ROLAND temporal GNN outperforms the baseline model in most cases, whereas the other three GNNs perform on average worse than the baseline. The results show that GNN based approaches hold promise in the analysis of temporal social networks through mobile connectivity data. However, due to the relatively small performance margin between ROLAND and the baseline model, further research is required on specialized GNN architectures for temporal social network analysis. |
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| spellingShingle | Temporal social network modeling of mobile connectivity data with graph neural networks Jaskari, Joel Roy, Chandreyee Ogushi, Fumiko Saukkoriipi, Mikko Sahlsten, Jaakko Kaski, Kimmo Social and Information Networks Machine Learning Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art data-driven tool for modeling connectivity data of graph-structured complex networks and integrating information of their nodes and edges in space and time. However, as of yet, the analysis of social networks using the time series of people's mobile connectivity data has not been extensively investigated. In the present study, we investigate four snapshot - based temporal GNNs in predicting the phone call and SMS activity between users of a mobile communication network. In addition, we develop a simple non - GNN baseline model using recently proposed EdgeBank method. Our analysis shows that the ROLAND temporal GNN outperforms the baseline model in most cases, whereas the other three GNNs perform on average worse than the baseline. The results show that GNN based approaches hold promise in the analysis of temporal social networks through mobile connectivity data. However, due to the relatively small performance margin between ROLAND and the baseline model, further research is required on specialized GNN architectures for temporal social network analysis. |
| title | Temporal social network modeling of mobile connectivity data with graph neural networks |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03319 |