W-MMP2Vec: Topic-driven network embedding model for link prediction in content-based heterogeneous information network

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Pham, Phu | Do, Phuc^*

Affiliations: University of Information Technology (UIT), VNU-HCM, Vietnam

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Phuc Do, University of Information Technology (UIT), VNU-HCM, Vietnam. E-mail: phucdo@uit.edu.vn.

Abstract: Link prediction on heterogeneous information network (HIN) is considered as a challenge problem due to the complexity and diversity in types of nodes and links. Currently, there are remained challenges of meta-path-based link prediction in HIN. Previous works of link prediction in HIN via network embedding approach are mainly focused on exploiting features of node rather than existing relations in forms of meta-paths between nodes. In fact, predicting the existence of new links between non-linked nodes is absolutely inconvincible. Moreover, recent HIN-based embedding models also lack of thorough evaluations on the topic similarity between text-based nodes along given meta-paths. To tackle these challenges, in this paper, we proposed a novel approach of topic-driven multiple meta-path-based HIN representation learning framework, namely W-MMP2Vec. Our model leverages the quality of node representations by combining multiple meta-paths as well as calculating the topic similarity weight for each meta-path during the processes of network embedding learning in content-based HINs. To validate our approach, we apply W-TMP2Vec model in solving several link prediction tasks in both content-based and non-content-based HINs (DBLP, IMDB and BlogCatalog). The experimental outputs demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed model which outperforms recent state-of-the-art HIN representation learning models.

Keywords: Meta-path, link prediction, heterogeneous information network, content-based HIN, network embedding

DOI: 10.3233/IDA-205168

Journal: Intelligent Data Analysis, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 711-738, 2021