A Diverse Biases Non-negative Latent Factorization of Tensors Model for Dynamic Network Link Prediction

Abstract

Dynamic networks vary over time, making it vital to capture networks temporal patterns for predicting missing links with high accuracy. A biased non-negative latent factorization of tensors (BNLFT) model is very effective in extracting such patterns from dynamic data. However, a BNLFT model only integrates single bias, which cannot adequately represents the volatility of the dynamic data. To address this issue, this paper presents a Diverse Biases Non-negative Latent Factorization of Tensors (DBNT) model for accurate prediction of missing links in dynamic networks. Meanwhile, for further prediction accuracy improvement, the preprocessing bias is integrated into the DBNT model. Empirical studies on two dynamic networks datasets from real applications show that compared with state of the art predictors, a DBNT model achieves higher prediction accuracy.