Link prediction in social network based on local information and attributes of nodes

Link prediction is essential to both research areas and practical applications. In order to make full use of information of the network, we proposed a new method to predict links in the social network. Firstly, we extracted topological information and attributes of nodes in the social network. Secondly, we integrated them into feature vectors. Finally, we used XGB classifier to predict links using feature vectors. Through expanding information source, experiments on a co-authorship network suggest that our method can improve the accuracy of link prediction significantly.