A machine learning framework for structural and predictive analysis of intelligent data networks
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The exponential growth of Intelligent Data Networks (IDNs) complex, dynamic systems encompassing IoT ecosystems, social networks, and cyber physical infrastructures–has exposed significant limitations in current analytical methodologies. Traditional approaches remain fundamentally siloed, treating structural analysis and predictive forecasting as distinct challenges addressed by specialized models. This artificial separation restricts holistic understanding and impedes the extraction of synergistic insights from network data. This paper introduces NetStructPred, a novel, unified machine learning framework explicitly designed for the joint structural and predictive analysis of heterogeneous, temporal IDNs. The framework’s architecture integrates a meta-path guided heterogeneous graph encoder, a continuous-time memory-augmented transformer for temporal dynamics, and a multi-task learning core with a novel cross-task feedback mechanism. This design fosters the learning of unified representations that simultaneously encode topological properties, semantic relationships, and evolutionary patterns. Through comprehensive experimentation across six diverse real-world datasets–spanning academic (DBLP, Aminer), social (Wikipedia, Reddit), transportation (METR-LA), and cybersecurity (IoT-23) domains–we demonstrate that NetStructPred achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance in both structural and predictive tasks. The framework outperformed twelve specialized baseline models, attaining a 0.742 Normalized Mutual Information score for community detection on DBLP while maintaining a 0.924 AUC-ROC for link prediction, and achieving a traffic forecasting MAE of 2.84 mph...
