Social Network Analysis using Knowledge-Graph Embeddings and Convolution Operations

Abstract

Link prediction and node classification in social networks remain open research problems with respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Innate representations about social network structures can be effectively harnessed for training AI models in a bid to predict ties; and detect clusters via classification of actors with regard to a given social network. In this paper, we have proposed a distinct hybrid model: Representation Learning via Knowledge-Graph Embeddings and Convolution Operations (RLVECO), which hybridizes the strengths of Knowledge-Graph Embeddings (VE) and Convolution Operations (CO) in extracting and learning meaningful features from social graphs via Representation Learning (RL). RLVECO utilizes an edge sampling approach for exploiting features of a social graph via learning the context of each actor with respect to its neighboring actors.