Evaluating aggregators and sampling strategies in GraphSAGE for dynamic link prediction in keyword co-occurrence network
摘要
Forecasting the evolution of research topics is essential for identifying emerging trends in rapidly evolving scientific domains. In this study, scholarly themes are modeled as temporal keyword co-occurrence networks to capture their structural and temporal dynamics. A multi-domain evaluation is conducted using three graphs derived from the DBLP Citation Network V14: the Cyber Security Research Graph (CSRG), the Artificial Intelligence Research Graph (AIRG), and the Social Network Research Graph (SNRG), each represented as yearly snapshots (2001–2022). The datasets exhibit high temporal novelty, where most keyword associations emerge dynamically over time, motivating the use of inductive models. A GraphSAGE-based framework is employed for dynamic link prediction, evaluating multiple aggregation functions and neighborhood sampling strategies under a temporal inductive setting. Experimental results (2018–2022) demonstrate strong predictive performance across all datasets. Importantly, the findings reveal that no single configuration is universally optimal; instead, model performance is strongly influenced by graph structural properties such as size, density, and local connectivity. These results highlight the importance of structure-aware model design and demonstrate the effectiveness of inductive graph neural networks for forecasting evolving keyword relationships in dynamic scholarly environments.