User identity linkage across online social networks: A review

K Shu, S Wang, J Tang, R Zafarani, H Liu - Acm Sigkdd Explorations …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The increasing popularity and diversity of social media sites has encouraged more and
more people to participate on multiple online social networks to enjoy their services. Each …

Network alignment

R Tang, Z Yong, S Jiang, X Chen, Y Liu, YC Zhang… - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems.
When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their …

[PDF][PDF] Aligning Users across Social Networks Using Network Embedding.

L Liu, WK Cheung, X Li, L Liao - Ijcai, 2016 - researchgate.net
In this paper, we adopt the representation learning approach to align users across multiple
social networks where the social structures of the users are exploited. In particular, we …

[PDF][PDF] Predict anchor links across social networks via an embedding approach.

T Man, H Shen, S Liu, X **, X Cheng - Ijcai, 2016 - shenghua-liu.github.io
Predicting anchor links across social networks has important implications to an array of
applications, including cross-network information diffusion and cross-domain …

Cosnet: Connecting heterogeneous social networks with local and global consistency

Y Zhang, J Tang, Z Yang, J Pei, PS Yu - Proceedings of the 21th ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
More often than not, people are active in more than one social network. Identifying users
from multiple heterogeneous social networks and integrating the different networks is a …

Final: Fast attributed network alignment

S Zhang, H Tong - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD international …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Multiple networks naturally appear in numerous high-impact applications. Network
alignment (ie, finding the node correspondence across different networks) is often the very …

Multi-level graph convolutional networks for cross-platform anchor link prediction

H Chen, H Yin, X Sun, T Chen, B Gabrys… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Cross-platform account matching plays a significant role in social network analytics, and is
beneficial for a wide range of applications. However, existing methods either heavily rely on …

Deeplink: A deep learning approach for user identity linkage

F Zhou, L Liu, K Zhang, G Trajcevski… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The typical aim of User Identity Linkage (UIL) is to detect when users from across different
social platforms are actually one and the same individual. Existing efforts to address this …

OAG: Toward linking large-scale heterogeneous entity graphs

F Zhang, X Liu, J Tang, Y Dong, P Yao… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Linking entities from different sources is a fundamental task in building open knowledge
graphs. Despite much research conducted in related fields, the challenges of linkinglarge …

Adversarial learning for weakly-supervised social network alignment

C Li, S Wang, Y Wang, P Yu, Y Liang, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Nowadays, it is common for one natural person to join multiple social networks to enjoy
different kinds of services. Linking identical users across multiple social networks, also …