Proximal Symmetric Non-negative Latent Factor Analysis: A Novel Approach to Highly-Accurate Representation of Undirected Weighted Networks

Abstract: An Undirected Weighted Network (UWN) is commonly found in big data-related applications. Note that such a network's information connected with its nodes, and edges can be expressed as a Symmetric, High-Dimensional and Incomplete (SHDI) matrix. However, existing models fail in either modeling its intrinsic symmetry or low-data density, resulting in low model scalability or representation learning ability. For addressing this issue, a Proximal Symmetric Nonnegative Latent-factor-analysis (PSNL) model is proposed. It incorporates a proximal term into symmetry-aware and data density-oriented objective function for high representation accuracy. Then an adaptive Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)-based learning scheme is implemented through a Tree-structured of Parzen Estimators (TPE) method for high computational efficiency. Empirical studies on four UWNs demonstrate that PSNL achieves higher accuracy gain than state-of-the-art models, as well as highly competitive computational efficiency.