Detecting influential nodes in complex social networks is crucial due to the enormous amount of data and the constantly changing behavior of existing topologies. Centrality-based and machine-learning approaches focus mostly on node topologies or feature values in their evaluation of nodes' relevance. However, both network topologies and node attributes should be taken into account when determining the influential value of nodes. This research has proposed a deep learning model called Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) to discover the significant nodes in graph-based large datasets. A deep learning framework for identifying influential nodes with structural centrality via Graph Convolutional Networks called DeepInfNode has been developed. The proposed approach measures up contextual information from Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model trials to measure the rate of infection to develop node representations. In the experimental section, acquired experimental results indicate that the suggested model has a higher F1 and Area under the curve (AUC) value. The findings indicate that the strategy is both effective and precise in terms of suggesting new linkages. The proposed DeepInfNode model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on a variety of publicly available standard graph datasets, achieving an increase in performance of up to 99.1% of accuracy.
Keywords: Deep learning; Graph Convolutional Network; Influential nodes; Susceptible Infected Recovered; Topological features.
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