“…We might expect a network with organized structure to have groups of vertices which are more similar within a group but less similar between groups. Many methods have been explored to address the question of vertex similarity, some directly using methods such as kernels (Jaccard, 1901;Salton & McGill, 1983;Leicht et al, 2006;Kondor & Lafferty, 2002;Smola & Kondor, 2003;Cooper & Barahona, 2010;Fouss et al, 2006), and some indirectly via graph distances or embedding techniques such as graph Laplacian embedding (Lenart, 1998;Fiedler, 1989;Chan et al, 1994;Shi & Malik, 2000;Meila & Shi, 2001;Perrault-joncas & Meila, 2011;Luo et al, 2009;Fouss et al, 2007;Bai et al, 2005;Ghawalby & Hancock, 2015;Huang et al, 2015;Cheng et al, 2019), or inference approaches such as link prediction (Liben-Nowell & Kleinberg, 2007;Zhou et al, 2009;Pech et al, 2019;Zhou et al, 2021). Indeed, the position of vertices in networks can be generalized into approaches that identify deeper mathematical properties related to vertex configurations as in (Brandes, 2016), which provides a general framework for the theoretical idea of vertex similarity.…”