This is the releasing code for our AAAI 2018 paper: "Ranking Users in Social Networks with Higher-Order Structures", and TKDE journal version: "Ranking Users in Social Networks with Higher-Order Structures"

Readers are welcomed to fork this repository to reproduce the experiments and follow our work. Please kindly cite our paper

@inproceedings{zhao2018ranking,
title={Ranking Users in Social Networks with Higher-Order Structures},
author={Zhao, Huan and Xu, Xiaogang and Song, Yangqiu and Lee, Dik Lun and Chen, Zhao and Gao, Han},
booktitle={Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year={2018}
}
@article{zhao2019ranking,
title={Ranking Users in Social Networks with Motif-based PageRank},
author={Zhao, Huan and Xu, Xiaogang and Song, Yangqiu and Lee, Dik Lun and Chen, Zhao and Gao, Han},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
year={2019},
publisher={IEEE}
}

The following is an instruction to reproduce our experiments.

• CentOS release 6.9.
• Python 2.7.12.
• Numpy 1.11.0.
• Networkx 1.11.

We use three datasets for experiments. They are DBLP, Epinion, Ciao. The DBLP is provided by Arminer and we use the version V8, Epinion, Ciao are by provided by Jiliang Tang.

• DBLP:

  1. author_name_id.txt is the document which record the name of author and corresponding id which represent the node in the network.such as 'Jiawei Han;1' means the id for Jiawei Han is 1.
  2. citation_network.txt is the document which describe the relation network for all authors in forms of id. For example, '423;6151' means that the author with id of 423 cite the author with id of 6151.
  3. h_index_all.txt is the document which record the name of author and corresponding h-index. For example, 'Jiawei Han;151' means that the h-index of Jiawei Han is 151.
  4. author_citation_domain.txt records id, name and the number of citation for each author. For example, '1;Jiawei Han;2588' means that Jiawei Han has an id of 1 and has been cited by 2588 persons in DBLP network.

• Epinions:

  1. average_helpfulness_Epinion.txt is the documents which record the average helpfulness of each person in this network. For example, '14192;4.095238' means that a person with id of 14192 own average helpfulness of 4.095238(the full score is 5).
  2. trust_network_Epinion.txt record the relation network for all persons in this network. For example, '9831;19832' means that person with id of 9831 think the evaluation of the person with id of 19832 is helpful.
  3. average_indegree_Epinion.txt recore the id and the indegree of this id in the network. For example, '16242;2024' means person with id of 16242 has degree of 2024.

• Ciao:

  1. average_helpfulness_ciao.txt is the documents which record the average helpfulness of each person in this network. For example, '12217;4.444444' means that a person with id of 12217 own average helpfulness of 4.444444(the full score is 5).
  2. trust_network_Ciao.txt record the relation network for all persons in this network. For example, '1;2' means that person with id of 1 think the evaluation of the person with id of 2 is helpful.
  3. average_indegree_ciao.txt recore the id and the indegree of this id in the network. For example, '256;95' means person with id of 256 has degree of 95.

• DBLP: For example, we want to get the result where the motif we use is M7 and the $\alpha$ coefficient is 0.2, which is best in Top50

  1. we shall have the data which is author_domain_id.txt, h_index_all.txt, itation_network.txt

  2. modify the code of pagerank_motif_direct.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

     a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/DBLP/citation_network.txt', 1, type, alpha)
     

     in this situation, we write type = 'M7', alpha = 0.2, and modify the output name in

     output = open(txt_name, 'w')
     

     The txt_name we need to specify, such as 'result_citation_M7_alpha0.2.txt'

  3. we need to use the code of experiment/DBLP/result_read.py then modify the row:

     f = open(txt_name) as f = open('result_citation_M7_alpha0.2.txt')
     

     and

     output = open(txt_output_name, 'w')
     

     here txt_output_name is the final result. In txt_output_name, each row is author's id, name, pagerank_value. The name can also be 'result_citation_M7_alpha0.2.txt' here.

• Epinions： For example, we want to get the result where the motif we use is M1 and the $\alpha$ coefficient is 0.4, which is best in Top50

  1. we shall have the data which is average_helpfulness_Epinion.txt, trust_network_Epinion.txt

  2. modify the code of pagerank_motif.py, there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

     a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/Epinions/trust_network_Epinion.txt', 1, type, alpha)
     

     in this situation, we writetype = 'M1', alpha = 0.4, and modify the output name in

     output = open(txt_name, 'w')
     

     The txt_name we need to specify, such as 'result_Epinions_M1_alpha0.4.txt' In this result document, each row is person's id, pagerank_value.

• Ciao: For example, in order to get the result where the motif we use is M5 and the $\alpha$ coefficient is 0.08 which is best in Top50

  1. we shall have the data which is average_helpfulness_ciao.txt, trust_network_ciao.txt

  2. modify the code of pagerank_motif.py, there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

     a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/Ciao/trust_network_ciao.txt', 1, type, alpha)
     

     in this situation, we write type = 'M5', alpha = 0.08, and modify the output name in

     output = open(txt_name, 'w')
     

     The txt_name we need to specify, such as **'result_Ciao_M5_alpha0.08.txt'**In this result document, each row is person's id, pagerank_value.

• DBLP once we get the result document from experiment, we can use the code of ndcg_DBLP.py in evaluate/DBLP file. We need to modify the row:

  txt_name = 'result_citation_M7_alpha0.2.txt'
  

  in order to get the result of M7 and $\alpha$ coefficient is 0.2. And rank_value = 50 in order to get the ndcg value for TOP 50.

• Epinions once we get the result document from experiment, we can use the code of ndcg_Epinions.py in evaluate/Epinions file. We need to modify the row:

  txt_name = 'result_Epinions_M1_alpha0.4.txt'
  

  in order to get the result of M1 and $\alpha$ coefficient is 0.4.

• Ciao once we get the result document from experiment, we can use the code of ndcg_Ciao.py in evaluate/Ciao file. We need to modify the row:

  txt_name = 'result_Ciao_M5_alpha0.08.txt'
  

  in order to get the result of M5 and $\alpha$ coefficient is 0.08.

• rebuttal This is the extra experiment we did during review, the main idea is to indicate the significance of improvement between our motif-based method and two baseline wich is BPR and MPR. We select the 80% of nodes in the DBLP network using uniform distribution, and construct the subgraph. Then we run our experiments and evaluate to compute the ndcg value. Repeat this procedure for 30 times and the same is for the baseline such as BPR. So we can get the variable samples to compute the significance between them using t-test.

  1. motif_construct_direct_random.py : construct the subgraph and then compute the motif matrix.
  2. pagerank_motif_random.py: can compute the motif-pagerank result, if we want to compute the motif of 'M7' and $\alpha$ value of 0.2, then we can modify the row:

  a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/citation_network.txt', 1, 'M7', 0.2)
  

  this code will run the results for all 30 subgraphs. and if we want to compute the BPR:

  a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/citation_network.txt', 0, type, alpha_value)
  

  any type and alpha_value is ok.

  3. send the results to result_read_random.py and ndcg_DBLP_rebuttal.py, we can get the 30 ndcg value for each methods.
  4. using the above results and send it into t_test.py can get the final results which is the significance measurement.

DBLP:

1. IND：we need the data of author_citation_domain.txt in data/DBLP in which, each row is author's id, name and in-degree. And run the code of baseline/DBLP/ndcg_IND.py in which make sure that

   txt_name = 'data/DBLP/author_citation_domain.txt'
   

2. BET: run the code in baseline/DBLP/result_BET.py, and send the result document into the evaluate code which is evaluate/DBLP/ndcg_DBLP.py.

3. CLO：run the code in baseline/DBLP/result_CLO.py, and send the result document into the evaluate code which is evaluate/DBLP/ndcg_DBLP.py.

4. BPR: like the procedure in experiment of DBLP, but we shall modify the code of experiment/DBLP/pagerank_motif_direct.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

   a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/citation_network.txt', 0, type, alpha)
   

   any type or alpha is ok. And get the result by result_read.py and ndcg_DBLP.py in turn.

5. WPR: like the procedure in experiment of DBLP, but we shall modify the code of experiment/DBLP/pagerank_motif_direct.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

   a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/citation_network.txt', 0, type, alpha)
   

   any type or alpha is ok. and in the experiment/DBLP/motif_construct_direct.py, Comment the following row:

   adjacency_matrix.data = np.ones((1, lennn), dtype=np.float64)[0]
   

   And get the result by result_read.py and ndcg_DBLP.py in turn.

Epinions:

1. IND：we need the data of average_indegree_Epinion.txt in data/Epinions in which, each row is person's id, in-degree. And run the code of baseline/Epinions/ndcg_Epinion_IND.py in which make sure that txt_name = 'data/Epinions/average_indegree_Epinion.txt'

2. BET: run the code in baseline/Epinions/result_Epinion_BET.py, and send the result document into the evaluate code which is evaluate/Epinions/ndcg_Epinions.py.

3. CLO：run the code in baseline/Epinions/result_Epinion_CLO.py, and send the result document into the evaluate code which is evaluate/Epinions/ndcg_Epinions.py.

4. BPR: like the procedure in experiment of Epinions, but we shall modify the code of experiment/Epinions/pagerank_motif.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

   a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/Epinions/trust_network_Epinion.txt', 0, type, alpha)
   

   any type or alpha is ok. And get the result using evaluate/Epinions/ndcg_Epinions.py in turn.

5. WPR: like the procedure in experiment of Epinions, but we shall modify the code of experiment/Epinions/pagerank_motif.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

   a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/Epinions/trust_network_Epinion.txt', 0, type, alpha)
   

   any type or alpha is ok. and in the experiment/Epinions/motif_construct_direct.py, Comment the following row:

   adjacency_matrix.data = np.ones((1, lennn), dtype=np.float64)[0]
   

   And get the result using evaluate/Epinions/ndcg_Epinions.py in turn.

Ciao:

1. IND：we need the data of average_indegree_ciao.txt in data/Ciao in which, each row is person's id, in-degree. And run the code of baseline/Ciao/ndcg_Ciao_IND.py in which make sure that

   txt_name = 'data/Ciao/average_indegree_ciao.txt'

2. BET: run the code in baseline/Ciao/result_Ciao_BET.py, and send the result document into the evaluate code which is evaluate/Ciao/ndcg_Ciao.py.

3. CLO：run the code in baseline/Ciao/result_Ciao_CLO.py, and send the result document into the evaluate code which is evaluate/Ciao/ndcg_Ciao.py.

4. BPR: like the procedure in experiment of Ciao, but we shall modify the code of experiment/Ciao/pagerank_motif.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

   a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/Ciao/trust_network_ciao.txt', 0, type, alpha)
   

   any type or alpha is ok. And get the result using evaluate/Ciao/ndcg_Ciao.py in turn.

5. WPR: like the procedure in experiment of Ciao, but we shall modify the code of experiment/Ciao/pagerank_motif.py, in which there is only one row we need to modify in order to compute results for different motif and $\alpha$ coefficients:

   a, entry_unique = construct_motif('data/Ciao/trust_network_ciao.txt', 0, type, alpha)
   

   any type or alpha is ok. and in the experiment/Ciao/motif_construct_direct.py, Comment the following row:

   adjacency_matrix.data = np.ones((1, lennn), dtype=np.float64)[0]
   

   And get the result using evaluate/Ciao/ndcg_Ciao.py in turn.

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