Embeddings of Nation-Level Social Networks

For nation-scale networks, we present a layer-sensitive random walk, temporal alignment and partitioning techniques and evaluate them on 13 downstream tasks.

March 2026 · Tanzir Pial, Flavio Hafner, Dakota Handzlik, Enamul Hassan, Lucas Sage, Ana Macanovic, Tom Emery, Arnout van de Rijt, Steven Skiena  · Forthcoming, Complex Networks

Population-Scale Network Embeddings Expose Educational Divides in Network Structure Related to Right-Wing Populist Voting

We create network embeddings of the Dutch population, use them to predict voting behavior, and explore interpretability techniques for network embeddings.

September 2025 · Malte Lüken, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Sreeparna Deb, Flavio Hafner, Megha Khosla  · R&R, Scientific Reports