Identifying Asymptomatic Nodes in Network Epidemics using Graph Neural Networks
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| author | Pinto, Conrado Catarcione de Oliveira, Amanda Camacho Novaes Luna, Rodrigo Sapienza Figueiredo, Daniel Ratton |
| author_facet | Pinto, Conrado Catarcione de Oliveira, Amanda Camacho Novaes Luna, Rodrigo Sapienza Figueiredo, Daniel Ratton |
| contents | Infected individuals in some epidemics can remain asymptomatic while still carrying and transmitting the infection. These individuals contribute to the spread of the epidemic and pose a significant challenge to public health policies. Identifying asymptomatic individuals is critical for measuring and controlling an epidemic, but periodic and widespread testing of healthy individuals is often too costly. This work tackles the problem of identifying asymptomatic individuals considering a classic SI (Susceptible-Infected) network epidemic model where a fraction of the infected nodes are not observed as infected (i.e., their observed state is identical to susceptible nodes). In order to classify healthy nodes as asymptomatic or susceptible, a Graph Neural Network (GNN) model with supervised learning is adopted where a set of node features are built from the network with observed infected nodes. The approach is evaluated across different network models, network sizes, and fraction of observed infections. Results indicate that the proposed methodology is robust across different scenarios, accurately identifying asymptomatic nodes while also generalizing to different network sizes and fraction of observed infections. |
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| spellingShingle | Identifying Asymptomatic Nodes in Network Epidemics using Graph Neural Networks Pinto, Conrado Catarcione de Oliveira, Amanda Camacho Novaes Luna, Rodrigo Sapienza Figueiredo, Daniel Ratton Social and Information Networks Neural and Evolutionary Computing Populations and Evolution Infected individuals in some epidemics can remain asymptomatic while still carrying and transmitting the infection. These individuals contribute to the spread of the epidemic and pose a significant challenge to public health policies. Identifying asymptomatic individuals is critical for measuring and controlling an epidemic, but periodic and widespread testing of healthy individuals is often too costly. This work tackles the problem of identifying asymptomatic individuals considering a classic SI (Susceptible-Infected) network epidemic model where a fraction of the infected nodes are not observed as infected (i.e., their observed state is identical to susceptible nodes). In order to classify healthy nodes as asymptomatic or susceptible, a Graph Neural Network (GNN) model with supervised learning is adopted where a set of node features are built from the network with observed infected nodes. The approach is evaluated across different network models, network sizes, and fraction of observed infections. Results indicate that the proposed methodology is robust across different scenarios, accurately identifying asymptomatic nodes while also generalizing to different network sizes and fraction of observed infections. |
| title | Identifying Asymptomatic Nodes in Network Epidemics using Graph Neural Networks |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Neural and Evolutionary Computing Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02568 |