{"id":13551,"date":"2024-07-08T05:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2024-07-08T05:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T09:34:37","slug":"widespread-machine-learning-methods-behind-link-prediction-are-performing-very-poorly-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/widespread-machine-learning-methods-behind-link-prediction-are-performing-very-poorly-study-shows\/13551\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread machine learning methods behind \u2018link prediction\u2019 are performing very poorly, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in US Santa Cruz NEWSCENTER, February 12, 2024 New research indicates that methods used to test the accuracy of link prediction are flawed, and that link prediction does not work as well as common benchmarking tests currently indicate As you scroll through any social media feed, you are likely to be prompted to follow or friend another person, expanding your personal network and contributing to the growth of the app itself. The person suggested to you is a result of link prediction: a widespread machine learning (ML) task that evaluates the links in a network \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/widespread-machine-learning-methods-behind-link-prediction-are-performing-very-poorly-study-shows\/13551\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in US Santa Cruz NEWSCENTER, February 12, 2024 New research indicates that methods used to test the accuracy of link prediction are flawed, and that link prediction does not work as well as common benchmarking tests currently indicate As you scroll through any social media feed, you are likely to be prompted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13556,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions\/13556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}