New prediction method for data spreading in social networks based on machine learning algorithm

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New prediction method for data spreading in social networks
based on machine learning algorithm
Maytham N. Meqdad1
, Rawya Al-Akam2
, Seifedine Kadry3
1
Al-Mustaqbal University College, Iraq
2
Koblenz-Landau University, German
3
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 9, 2020
Revised Jun 7, 2020
Accepted Jul 16, 2020
Information diffusion prediction is the study of the path of dissemination of
news, information, or topics in a structured data such as a graph. Research in
this area is focused on two goals, tracing the information diffusion path and
finding the members that determine future the next path. The major problem
of traditional approaches in this area is the use of simple probabilistic methods
rather than intelligent methods. Recent years have seen growing interest in the
use of machine learning algorithms in this field. Recently, deep learning,
which is a branch of machine learning, has been increasingly used in the field
of information diffusion prediction. This paper presents a machine learning
method based on the graph neural network algorithm, which involves the
selection of inactive vertices for activation based on the neighboring vertices
that are active in a given scientific topic. Basically, in this method, information
diffusion paths are predicted through the activation of inactive vertices by
active vertices. The method is tested on three scientific bibliography datasets:
The Digital Bibliography and Library Project (DBLP), Pubmed, and Cora. The
method attempts to answer the question that who will be the publisher of the
next article in a specific field of science. The comparison of the proposed
method with other methods shows 10% and 5% improved precision in DBLP
and Pubmed datasets, respectively.
Keywords:
Data spreading
Machine learning
Prediction
Social network
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Seifedine Kadry,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science,
Beirut Arab University,
Beirut, Lebanon.
Email: s.kadry@bau.edu.lb
1. INTRODUCTION
Information diffusion in homogenous and heterogeneous networks is a dynamic process of keen
interest to researchers. This concept refers to how information like news of events outbreaks etc. spread from
a set of origin nodes to other nodes across the network [1-3]. Information diffusion has been studied in many
fields ranging from health care [4-6] to social networks [7, 8]. One of the most important tasks of network-
based systems is to understand, model, and predict rapidly developing events within the network. After
discovering the structure of a network, it is possible to predict the patterns of events including their shape, size
and development, which can be described as information diffusion [9]. Over the years, researchers have tried
several methods to model information diffusion in homogeneous and heterogeneous networks [10-13].
Formally, a data network is represented by a graph G = (V, E) where V is the set of vertices and E is
the set of edges. This graph is called homogeneous if the vertices and their edges are of the same type, and is

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called heterogeneous otherwise. Homogeneous networks have been the subject of many studies with the focus
being on semantic analysis, communicable disease control [14-17], and link prediction [18-20]. Recently, more
attention has been paid to heterogeneous networks, as they could provide a more realistic representation of
real-world phenomena [21, 22]. In a study by Watt [23], he investigated the role of threshold values and
network structure in information diffusion in these networks. In [10], information diffusion in heterogeneous
networks through hyperpaths was studied. This study proposed a method called MLTM-R for analyzing
information diffusion power in different hyperpaths. In this method, predictions were made with the PathSim
algorithm used to weight the links between each two nodes [24, 25].
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of deep learning in heterogeneous
networks [26, 27]. In [28], a core deep learning (CDL) framework was used to solve the problem of
heterogeneous visual versus near-infrared (VIS-NIR) image matching through topic diffusion in networks.
Tang et al. [29] proposed a LINE algorithm for embedding learning that traverses all edge types and samples
one edge at a time for each edge type. Chang et al [30] developed a deep architecture for information diffusion
prediction through information encoding in heterogeneous networks. In [31], a new algorithm called
Metapath2vec was presented for information encoding in heterogeneous networks, where concepts and patterns
are mapped by the use of hyperpaths. The review of previous works reveals some strengths and weaknesses in
the current approach to information diffusion in heterogeneous networks. The use of deep learning in the study
of information diffusion processes such as topic diffusion and information cascades can help avoid the
problems of more traditional methods. The major disadvantage of the previous works is that most topic
diffusion methods use local similarity and encoding based on neighboring nodes. For large heterogeneous
networks, it is time-consuming and difficult to perform local similarity calculations for each two corresponding
nodes. As a result, there is a need for a more comprehensive yet less complex automatic method for measuring
the similarity of nodes and finding diffusion paths in heterogeneous networks.
In this paper, the problem of predicting the path of information diffusion in a network is mapped to
a deep learning problem. Since predicting the new users who will be in the path of information flow is
a recognition process, this problem can be solved by machine learning algorithms. As noted in section X,
recently, deep machine learning algorithms have been widely used in this field. Also, researchers have
developed deep machine learning algorithms that can use graph data in the learning process. This paper presents
a machine learning method based on graph neural networks, which involves selecting the inactive node to be
activated based on its neighboring active nodes in each scientific topic. In other words, in this method,
information diffusion paths are predicted through the activation of inactive nodes by active nodes. To evaluate
the proposed method, it is tested on three heterogeneous scientific databases: The Digital Bibliography and
Library Project (DBLP), Pubmed, and Cora. The method seeks to answer the question that who will be the
publisher of the next article in a particular field of science. The comparison of the proposed method with other
methods shows 10% and 5% improvement in precision in DBLP and Pubmed datasets, respectively.
In summary, the most important innovations of the present work are as follows:
− Presenting a deep learning model where the information of a heterogeneous network is encoded in
the form of a deep learning graph, which can model the information diffusion path.
− Providing a feature extraction mechanism to find the degree of correlation of neighboring vertices in
different graph hyperpaths.
− Testing the method on the heterogeneous datasets DBLP, Pubmed, and Cora, which have real-world
applications, in order to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.
The remaining sections of the article are organized as follows. Section 2 describes the different components of
the proposed method. Section 3 describes the testing procedure and analyzes the results. And Section 4 presents
the conclusions.
2. PROPOSED METHOD
Information diffusion is a widely discussed dynamic network process with potential applications in
various fields of science. This term refers to the spreading of information or similar concepts such as news,
innovation, virus or malware a set of vertices to other vertices across the network. There is a rich body of
literature on information diffusion in complex networks, where different models and their interactions with
network topology have been analyzed [1]. The previous studies have been mostly focused on heterogeneous
networks. An information network like G = (V, E) where V is the set of vertices and E is the set of edges is
homogeneous if the edges and vertices are of the same type. Conversely, the networks with more than one type
of node or edge are called heterogeneous [8-10]. For example, in DBLP, which is an important computer
science bibliography database, the vertices could be authors, articles, and venues (journals/conferences) and
edges could be the author-author relationship in the sense that they have worked in the same area, and attended
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Here, we model information diffusion and specifically topic diffusion in heterogeneous information
networks. To this end, we use a concept called meta-path. The meta-path p on the grid TG = (A, R), where A
and R represent vertices and relationships, is defined as follows:
𝐴1
𝑅1
→ 𝐴2
𝑅2
→ …
𝑅 𝑙
→ 𝐴𝑙+1 (1)
Here, l is an index of the meta-path. The summation relationship between different types of vertices (A1 -
Al+1) is given by:
𝑅 = 𝑅1 ∘ 𝑅2 ∘ … 𝑅𝑙 (2)
where o is the combination operator. In DBLP, for example, each author-author or author-conference-author
relationship is considered a single meta-path.
Figure 1 shows an example of the diffusion of the topic of “data mining” in DBLP, where authors can
be linked through different meta-paths. This paper provides a machine learning method based on graph neural
networks in which an inactive node is activated by its active neighbors in a particular scientific topic. Given
that the prediction of new users who will be in the path of information flow is a recognition process, this
problem can be solved by machine learning algorithms.
The general framework of the method consists of two main phases: 1) designing a machine learning
scheme (learning machine) for the prediction process, and 2) evaluating the accuracy of the designed scheme
(machine) in predicting the flow of information in the dataset of interest. The first step involves training
a learning machine, where the input is the data collected from the information network graph and the output is
the tag “Yes” or “No”, showing whether or not the node specified in the input will be selected as the next path
of information diffusion. The purpose of this machine is to create a regression function for optimal mapping
between input data and output tags. In the second phase, a test dataset, which is taken from the collected data,
is used to test the designed machine. In the testing and accuracy evaluation phase, the classification process is
done once randomly and another time with the designed machine. In the end, the quality of the vertices obtained
from these two methods is compared.
Figure 1. An example of a heterogeneous network [15]
2.1. Graph convolution network algorithm
This section describes the details of graph convolutional network (GCN) and the next section explains
how it is used in the learning from the graph data of this study. Graph data can be broken down into two main
elements: vertices vij and edges aij. A graph can be described by the following 3‑tuple.
(3)𝑮 = ( 𝑽, 𝑨)
where 𝑽𝜖ℝ 𝑁×𝑓 is the vertex signal matrix describing N vertices each with f features, 𝑨𝜖ℝ 𝑁×𝑁 is the adjacency
matrix which encodes the edges information as described in section 2, and each element A is defined as follows;
aij = {
wij , if there is an edge between i and j
0, otherwise
(4)
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Figure 2. An example of a graph and its adjacency matrix
2.2. Graph convolution
Graph data can provide a brief representation of information in vertices and edges. To process and
learn this information, one has to use a convolution filtering method to filter both vertex information and edge
information. This is a spatial approach related to the graph convolution method, which uses the local
neighborhood graph filtering strategy. The graph convolution operation is based on the polynomials of
the adjacency matrix of the graph.
𝐻 = ℎ0𝐼 + ℎ1𝐴1
+ ℎ2𝐴2
+ ℎ3𝐴3
+ ⋯ + ℎ𝑘𝐴 𝑘
(5)
This filter is defined as the kth
degree polynomial of the adjacency matrix. The exponent of this
polynomial encodes the number of steps from the vertex of interest, which is multiplied by the assumed filter
factors. The scalar factor hi determines how much each neighbor of a vertex contributes to the convolution
operation. Therefore, the filter matrix is obtained as 𝐻 ∈ ℝ 𝑁 × 𝑁. The convolution of the vertices 𝑉 with
the filter 𝐻 is defined as the following matrix multiplication, where 𝑉 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑉𝑖𝑛 ∈ ℝ 𝑁.
𝑉𝑜𝑢𝑡 = 𝐻𝑉𝑖𝑛 (6)
This model can be adjusted in three ways. The first way is to avoid A becoming exponentiated and simplify
the adjacency polynomial in (2) into the linear form given in (6). The reason behind this approach is that, as
shown by VGGNet, a cascade of filters can effectively estimate the receptive field of a large filter.
𝐻 ≈ ℎ0𝐼 + ℎ1𝐴 (7)
The next step is to create the adjacency tensor 𝓐. This tensor consists of multiple adjacency matrices A 𝑒, which are
the slices of this tensor, each encoding a specific edge feature. Therefore, the linear filter matrix in (6) is defined as
a convex combination of adjacency matrices as given in (7). This equation can be simplified into (8).
𝐻 = ℎ0𝐼 + ℎ1𝐴1 + ℎ2𝐴2 + ⋯ + ℎ𝐿𝐴𝐿−1 (8)
𝐻 ≈ ∑ h 𝑒A 𝑒
𝐿
e=0 (9)
Multiple edge features are encoded by multiple adjacency matrices, each of which encodes a single
feature. Also, as shown in Figure 3, the edges are subdivided into multiple matrices. Figure 3 shows the default
linear GCN filter in an image application. A filter factor is isotropically applied to all vertices at a given
distance. In this case, h0 is applied to the vertex of the 0th
step and h1 is applied to all adjacent vertices. If this
figure is enclosed in another set of pixels, each pixel in that set will be multiplied by the filter factor h2.
As shown in Figure 3, to create the adjacency tensor, the adjacency matrix can be subdivided into 9
adjacency matrices. Each of these adjacency matrices shows a different relative link (edge feature) to a given
vertex. The next step is to apply a unique filter to each adjacency matrix to perform convolution followed by
aggregation. This gives a direction to the GCN filter. This is equivalent to a 3×3 FIR filter in traditional GCNs.
All the above-described filters are for a single vertex feature. For the extension to multiple vertex
features, each hl must be in ℝ 𝐶 so that H has a dimension of ℝ 𝑁× 𝑁× 𝐶. Therefore, each vertex feature has a filter
matrix H of size N×N. Therefore, in (9) can be rewritten as in (10), where H(c) is an N×N slice of H and h(c)
is a scalar related to an input feature and a slice of Al.
𝐻 𝑐
≈ ∑ h 𝑒
𝑐
A 𝑒
𝐿
e=0 (10)
Based on (c), the vertex signal is described by in (11), where Vin(c) is a column of Vin where c is
the only vertex feature. A bias in the form of b ∈ ℝ is also added to the formulation, results in 𝑉𝑖𝑛 ∈ ℝ 𝑁.
SRQP
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𝑉𝑜𝑢𝑡 =∑ 𝐻 𝑐
V𝑖𝑛
𝑐𝐶
c=1 + 𝑏 (11)
Figure 3. Types of filters that can be defined in the GCN algorithm
2.3. Architecture used for GCN
This architecture of CNN consists of three general steps. The first step is the preparation of the input
graph, which could be DBLP for example, so that the active and inactive vertices are equalized and leveled.
However, this step also has a separate input in the form of a tag. The output of this step is the graph 𝑍0, which
will be fed to the next step.
The second step is to perform the convolution operation on this graph in several layers. In this step,
a filter is applied to each vertex based on its adjacent edge. The input of the first convolution layer 𝑍1 is fed to
the second convolution layer, which produces the output 𝑍2.
In the third step, the created features are linearized and given to a Softmax layer, which decides which
node should be activated next. For this purpose, multiple linear vectors are created by concatenating all
the graphs created in the previous steps and their different permutations from 𝑍0to 𝑍2. Each of these vectors is
called a feature vector. The output of these operations is a linear vector that is fed to the fully connected neural
network placed in the last layer. Finally, this network, which is known as Softmax, is used to decide on
the next active node.
2.4. Implementation of classification algorithm
In the proposed algorithm, a learning machine for image classification in the dataset processed in
the classification phase is used to construct a model that produces values that are as close as possible to
the expected values. Several different approaches have been developed for this purpose. In this paper,
classification algorithms are used to classify the user into different classes in the dataset. The image
classification is done based on the feature vector extracted in the previous phase.
The proposed algorithm uses a modified version of the standard algorithm described above for
classification. Since the output of the proposed method is tagged in two classes, the multi-class version of these
algorithms is used. The features included in the feature matrix of each image form an n-dimensional vector,
which belongs to one of two classes.
𝑋 = (𝑥1, 𝑥2, ⋯ , 𝑥 𝑛) (12)
𝐶 = (𝑐1, 𝑐2) (13)
𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎 = (𝑋1, 𝑋2, ⋯ , 𝑋𝐿), L = Number of Sample (14)
The algorithm presented in Figure 4 shows how the learning machine is built and tested. In
the proposed algorithm, each machine is first trained using the extracted data. As can be seen, each learning
machine is trained separately for each dataset extracted in the algorithm. This is done using the “generateML”
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repeatedly subdivided and trained and tested by different datasets. More details on the mechanism of the folding
algorithm and measurement of the accuracy of the learning machine are provided in the next section.
Figure 4. Pseudo-code of the classification stage
3. TESTS
3.1. Test preparation
The proposed method was tested on three real datasets, namely DBLP, Pubmed, and Cora, which have
been used in numerous empirical studies. DBLP: this is a computer science bibliography database containing
the name of major authors, conferences, and publications. In the network used for DBLP, objects represent
authors. The meta-paths considered in this network are author-paper-author (APA), author-paper-author-
paper-author (APAPA), author-conference-author (ACA), and author-conference-author- conference-author
(ACACA). This dataset is typically used to extract different topics and examine the diffusion of information
about a specific topic. Information contained in this dataset pertains to the period between 1954 and 2016.
Pubmed: this is a bibliography dataset for the field of medical sciences, which includes authors,
conferences, and publications. In this network used for Pubmed, authors are represented by objects and
the considered meta-paths are APAPA and APA. Information of this dataset is for the period between 1994
and 2003. Cora: this is another computer science bibliography database. The meta-paths used for this dataset
are APAPA and APA. This dataset contains information from 1990 to 2012.
In the evaluation process, the diffusion process was modeled for several topics contained in these
datasets, which include data mining, machine learning, social networks, health care, DNA and infectious disease.
These particular topics were selected because of their high frequency in the dataset and the considerable amount
of data available for comparison and conclusion.
Training and testing operations were performed by the use of the K-Fold method as described earlier in
the paper. In this method, data is partitioned into K subsets. Each time, one of these K subsets is used for testing
and the other K-1 are used for training. This procedure is repeated k times so that each data is used exactly once
for training and once for testing. In the end, the average result of these K tests is reported as a final estimate. In
the K-Fold method, the ratio of data of classes in each subset should match this ratio in the main set.
Finally, the performance of the method in predicting topic diffusion was evaluated in terms of
the criterion known as Precision. This criterion was calculated using the following definitions:
− TP: if an active node is correctly labeled as active
− TN: if an inactive node is correctly labeled as inactive
− FP: if an active node is incorrectly labeled as inactive
− FN: if an inactive node is incorrectly labeled as active
Table 1 presents the parameters of the GCN algorithm illustrated in Figure 4. All tests of this study
were performed with these parameter settings. In this table, hidden1 and hidden2 are the number of nodes in
the two convolution layers. Also, early_stopping refers to the early termination condition of the algorithm,
which is convergence in less than 10 iterations.
3.2. Comparison with other works
For further evaluation of the proposed method, it was compared with other methods in the field of
information diffusion. This comparison was made with two methods, heterogeneous probability
model- independent cascade (HPM-IC), heterogeneous probability model-linear threshold (HPM-LT) [15] and
multi-relational linear treshold Model-relation level aggregation (MLTM-R) [16], which are based on
probabilistic functions. These methods were implemented on the test datasets using the settings recommended
in the respective references. The output of these methods was also the information diffusion path for several
-:
1 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛_𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚={'GCN'}
2 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑡={'DBLP',Pubmet','Cora'}
3 for each 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑡 Do
4 for each 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑 Do
5 for each 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 Do
6 (Xtrain, Ytrain, Xtest, Ytest) makefold(𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑖)
7 ML  generateML (𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛_𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚,Xtrain, Ytrain)
8 accuracy(𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑)  calculateAccuracy(ML,Ytest,)
9 end
10 end
11 end

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scientific topics. In this section, the test results for several topics on DBLP and Pubmed datasets are reported
based on precision and recall criteria. Table 2 presents the results of this evaluation in terms of precision.
Table 1. Initial parameters of GCN algorithm
ParameterValue
learning_rate0.01
epochs200
hidden116
hidden116
dropout0.5
weight_decay10000
early_stopping10
Table 2. Results of comparison of the proposed method with other methods for different topics on DBLP
using the precision criterion
Subject
Accuracy (%)
GCNHPM-ICHPM-LTMTLM-R
Data Mining75%60%55%56%
Machine Learning50%48%32%37%
Social Network50%40%38%39%
Medical Care75%62%55%56%
DNA15%14%12%11%
infectious disease25%21%20%22%
Software Engineering30%25%20%10%
Big Data25%22%21%14%
Network25%21%19%16%
Genetic75%50%40%33%
Biology50%37%11%10%
Neural etwork25%22%21%20%
As these results indicate, the proposed method achieved a significant improvement ranging between
10% and 20% in all comparisons. In the DBLP dataset, for example, the proposed method has a 10% higher
precision than other methods. The reason for this improvement could be that other methods are purely based on
probability functions and calculation of probability between neighboring vertices. This means that these methods
have no such thing as feature learning or intelligent processes and only repeat a constant set of calculations.
In contrast, as explained in the description of the architecture, the proposed method uses different learning
operations for each segment. For example, the convolution function is designed to determine the relation of each
node to its neighbors through a learning process. These operations are learned intelligently during the evolution
of the GCN algorithm. It should also be noted that in learning algorithms, the entire problem space can be easily
explored, whereas, in probability function-based methods, only a part of the problem space can be searched.
4. CONCLUSION
This paper presented a machine learning method based on the graph neural network algorithm, which
involves the selection of inactive vertices based on their neighboring active vertices in each scientific topic.
Basically, in this method, information diffusion paths are predicted through the activation of inactive vertices
by active vertices. Since predicting the new users who will be in the path of information flow is a recognition
process, this problem can be solved by machine learning algorithms. The proposed method was tested on three
real datasets, DBLP, Pubmed, and Cora, which are extensively used in the empirical studies. The evaluation
process involved modeling the diffusion process for several topics contained in these datasets, including data
mining, machine learning, social networks, health care, DNA and infectious disease.
Test results showed that the proposed method outperforms other methods in this area. As a potential
idea for future studies, the proposed system can be implemented in a parallel platform or with the extraction
and combination of other features to reach a stronger system. The use of more robust machine learning concepts
may also enhance the quality of the method. The methods with possible benefits in this area include feature
reduction and feature learning. The feature reduction method is particularly useful for reducing the overall
complexity of the recognition method. Feature learning is a process involving the transfer of the data processing
from the original feature space to a new space with higher feature resolution.
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