week 01

1.01 Introduction to Network Science

Social Network Analysis

Historical Prospective

Complex Networks

  • not regular, but not random
  • non-trivial topology
  • universal properties
  • everywhere
  • complex systems

Complex Networks

  • power law node degree distribution: ”scale-free” networks
  • small diameter and average path length: ”small world” networks
  • hight clustering coefficient: transitivity

Power law

Power law

Power Law

Triads

  • ”The Strength of Weak Ties”, Mark Grannoveter, 1973
  • ”Spread of Information through a Population with Socio-Structural Bias. Assumption of Transitivity”, Anatol Rapoport, 1953

Triads

If A and B and B and C are strongly linked, the the tie between B and C is always present

Grannoveter, 1973

  • strength of a tie
  • high transitivity
  • high clustering coefficient

High Clustering Coefficient

  • ”The small-world problem”. Stanley Milgram, 1967, 10871📝 [pdf]
  • ”An experimental study of the small world problem”, Jeffrey Travers, Stanley Milgram, 1969, 3405 📝, [pdf]

Stanley Milgram's experiment

Stanley Milgram's experiment

Stanley Milgram's experiment

  • Reached the target N = 64(29%)
  • Average chain length (L) = 5.2
  • Channels:
    • hometown (L) = 6.1
    • business contacts (L) = 4.6
    • from Boston (L) = 4.4
    • from Nebraska (L) = 5.7

Stanley Milgram's experiment

  • Email graph:
    • D. Watts (2001), 48,000 senders, (L) ≈ 6
  • MSN Messenger graph:
    • J. Lescovec et al (2007), 240mln users, (L) ≈ 6.6
  • Facebook graph:
    • L. Backstrom et al (2012), 721 mln users, (L) ≈ 4.74

Spring of Neural Networks

Shallow embeddings

  • DeepWalk: online learning of social representations, KDD 14,  Cited by 10349, [pdf]

Complex Embeddings

  • Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks,  ICLR17, Cited by 30292, [pdf]

Transformers in graphs

  • Graph Attention Networks,  Cited by 8724, [pdf]

GraphRag

  • From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization, [pdf]

Conferences

Conferences

  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI
  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NeurIPS
  • International Conference on Machine Learning ICML
  • International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR
  • Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD
  • International Conference on Data Mining ICDM
  • Web Search and Data Mining WSDM
  • International World Wide Web Conference WWW
  • Learning on Graphs Conference LoG

 Russian conferences

  • International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts AIST
  • International Conference on Network Analysis NET

Literature

Most important articles

  • Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks [pdf], [code], [video]
  • Graph Attention Networks [pdf], [code]
  • Inductive Representation Learning on Large Graphs [pdf], [code]
  • Convolutional Neural Networks on Graphs with Fast Localized Spectral Filtering [pdf], [code]
  • The Graph Neural Network Model [pdf]

Most important articles

  • A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks [pdf]
  • Neural Message Passing for Quantum Chemistry [pdf]
  • Spectral Networks and Locally Connected Networks on Graphs, ICLR14 [pdf] [video]
  • How Powerful are Graph Neural Networks? [pdf]
  • Convolutional Networks on Graphs for Learning Molecular Fingerprints [pdf], [code]

Books

Books

Practical cases

Recommendation systems

Recommendation systems

Simulate physics with GNs

Learning to Simulate Complex Physics with Graph Networks [pdf]

 

Simulate physics with GNs

Introduction

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