Research Article

The Influence of Network Structural Preference on Link Prediction

Algorithm 1

Perturbation algorithm.
(1)Input: adjacent matrix of the original network , parameter , parameter , and parameter
(2)fordo
(3) DELETE-EDGE ()
(4)end for
(5)function DELETE-EDGE ()
(6);
(7) Initialize the value matrix: ;
(8)fordo
(9)  fordo
(10)   Calculate the value of each element in using formula (1);
(11)  end for
(12)end for
(13)fordo
(14)  Randomly choose a position based on the value matrix ;
(15)  
(16)end for
(17);
(18)end function
(19)Output: the adjacent matrix after the perturbation has been applied