“…Networks of interest can be social, biological, informational, or technological. Link prediction is the task of identifying links missing from a network ( Lü & Zhou, 2011 ; Martínez, Berzal & Cubero, 2017 ; Guimerà & Sales-Pardo, 2009 ; Al Hasan et al, 2006 ; Guimerà & Sales-Pardo, 2009 ; Clauset, Moore & Newman, 2008 ; Lü & Zhou, 2011 ; Cannistraci, Alanis-Lobato & Ravasi, 2013 ; Daminelli et al, 2015 ; Al Hasan et al, 2006 ; Wang, Satuluri & Parthasarathy, 2007 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ; Beigi, Tang & Liu, 2020 ; Sajadmanesh et al, 2019 ; Makarov et al, 2019 ), a problem with important applications, such as the reconstruction of networks from partial observations ( Guimerà & Sales-Pardo, 2009 ), recommendation of items in online shops and friends in social networks ( Al Hasan et al, 2006 ), and the prediction of interactions in biological networks ( Clauset, Moore & Newman, 2008 ).…”