Characterizing Polarization in Social Networks using the Signed Relational Latent Distance Model

1 code implementation • 23 Jan 2023 • Nikolaos Nakis, Abdulkadir Çelikkanat, Louis Boucherie, Christian Djurhuus, Felix Burmester, Daniel Mathias Holmelund, Monika Frolcová, Morten Mørup

On four real social signed networks of polarization, we demonstrate that the model extracts low-dimensional characterizations that well predict friendships and animosity while providing interpretable visualizations defined by extreme positions when endowing the model with an embedding space restricted to polytopes.

Graph Representation Learning