INDECS, Vol. 24 No. 3, 2026.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.24.3.10
Nane: A Node2vec Extension for Attributed Network Embedding
Sarah Abdulkareem Ahmed Ahmed
; Çankırı Karatekin University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Çankırı, Türkiye
Serkan Savaş
orcid.org/0000-0003-3440-6271
; Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Computer Engineering, Kırıkkale, Türkiye
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Traditional network representation learning methods focus solely on the network’s topology, ignoring other sources of information that could improve the learning process. On the other hand, attributed networks incorporate additional contextual information in the form of node attributes, which can lead to more accurate representations of nodes in the network. The proposed approach aims to map the network onto a low-dimensional space that effectively captures the interaction between the two sources of information. In this study, we present an extension of the node2vec algorithm, called Node2vec Attributed Network Embedding that incorporates both network topology and node attributes to learn network embeddings. We evaluate the performance of Node2vec Attributed Network Embedding against other state-of-the-art methods for node classification and link prediction tasks on real-world datasets, demonstrating that Node2vec Attributed Network Embedding outperforms other methods and highlighting the importance of incorporating diverse feature types for network representation learning. Our study provides valuable insights into the challenges of representing network data for machine learning tasks. It proposes a practical approach for incorporating structural and attribute information into the network embedding process.
Keywords
attributed network; feature learning; network representation learning; random walk; network analysis
Hrčak ID:
346093
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2026.
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