{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4412876960","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737441","title":"BTS: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Tie Strength Prediction","display_name":"BTS: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Tie Strength Prediction","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-08-03","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4412876960","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737441"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3711896.3737441","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737441","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3711896.3737441","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"conference-paper","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3711896.3737441","any_repository_has_fulltext":null},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5036544715","display_name":"Xueqi Cheng","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3990-4414"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200719446","display_name":"Vanderbilt University","ror":"https://ror.org/02vm5rt34","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Xueqi Cheng","raw_affiliation_strings":["Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3990-4414","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5103413490","display_name":"Catherine Yang","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200719446","display_name":"Vanderbilt University","ror":"https://ror.org/02vm5rt34","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Catherine Yang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2857-5520","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5060669482","display_name":"Yuying Zhao","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-6544"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200719446","display_name":"Vanderbilt University","ror":"https://ror.org/02vm5rt34","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yuying Zhao","raw_affiliation_strings":["Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-6544","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100445079","display_name":"Yu Wang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-508X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I181233156","display_name":"University of Oregon","ror":"https://ror.org/0293rh119","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I181233156"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yu Wang","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Oregon, Eugene, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-508X","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Oregon, Eugene, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I181233156"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5119175117","display_name":"Hamid Karimi","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-4926"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I121980950","display_name":"Utah State University","ror":"https://ror.org/00h6set76","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I121980950"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Hamid Karimi","raw_affiliation_strings":["Utah State University, Logan, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-4926","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Utah State University, Logan, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I121980950"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5036086705","display_name":"Tyler Derr","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0080-5998"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200719446","display_name":"Vanderbilt University","ror":"https://ror.org/02vm5rt34","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Tyler Derr","raw_affiliation_strings":["Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0080-5998","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200719446"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":3,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":2,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"5345","last_page":"5354"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12252","display_name":"Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis","score":0.996399998664856,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2211","display_name":"Mechanics of Materials"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12252","display_name":"Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis","score":0.996399998664856,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2211","display_name":"Mechanics of Materials"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10713","display_name":"Structural Load-Bearing Analysis","score":0.9919999837875366,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2205","display_name":"Civil and Structural Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12371","display_name":"Electrical Contact Performance and Analysis","score":0.9868999719619751,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2210","display_name":"Mechanical Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/benchmark","display_name":"Benchmark (surveying)","score":0.8129096627235413},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.6291375160217285},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/reliability-engineering","display_name":"Reliability engineering","score":0.336366206407547},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/engineering","display_name":"Engineering","score":0.19844752550125122},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/geology","display_name":"Geology","score":0.09340909123420715}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C185798385","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1161707","display_name":"Benchmark (surveying)","level":2,"score":0.8129096627235413},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6291375160217285},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C200601418","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2193887","display_name":"Reliability engineering","level":1,"score":0.336366206407547},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.19844752550125122},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127313418","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1069","display_name":"Geology","level":0,"score":0.09340909123420715},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C13280743","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131089","display_name":"Geodesy","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/3711896.3737441","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737441","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3711896.3737441","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3711896.3737441","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737441","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3711896.3737441","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G1884549293","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"IIS2239881","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320323817","funder_display_name":"Universitas Brawijaya"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320323817","display_name":"Universitas Brawijaya","ror":"https://ror.org/01wk3d929"}],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4412876960.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4412876960.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":22,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W42733602","https://openalex.org/W1576165493","https://openalex.org/W2069668029","https://openalex.org/W2086510043","https://openalex.org/W2097662241","https://openalex.org/W2124142520","https://openalex.org/W2139422417","https://openalex.org/W2141113219","https://openalex.org/W2149668059","https://openalex.org/W2166293769","https://openalex.org/W2785221547","https://openalex.org/W2970274823","https://openalex.org/W3016055108","https://openalex.org/W3047975367","https://openalex.org/W3094248070","https://openalex.org/W3117369598","https://openalex.org/W3141325999","https://openalex.org/W3214872094","https://openalex.org/W4283446663","https://openalex.org/W4285357135","https://openalex.org/W4407953193","https://openalex.org/W6678421872"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4391375266","https://openalex.org/W2899084033","https://openalex.org/W2748952813","https://openalex.org/W2378211422","https://openalex.org/W4321353415","https://openalex.org/W2745001401","https://openalex.org/W2130974462","https://openalex.org/W2028665553","https://openalex.org/W2086519370","https://openalex.org/W4246352526"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0,189],"rapid":[1],"rise":[2],"of":[3,15,30,99,136,157],"online":[4,16],"social":[5,101],"networks":[6,102],"underscores":[7],"the":[8,12,28,109,115,130,134,150,155,166,195],"need":[9],"to":[10,20,58,128,173],"understand":[11],"heterogeneous":[13],"strengths":[14],"relationships.":[17],"Yet,":[18],"efforts":[19],"assess":[21],"tie":[22,137,144],"strength":[23,145],"(TS)":[24],"are":[25],"hindered":[26],"by":[27,107],"lack":[29],"ground-truth":[31],"labels,":[32],"differing":[33],"research":[34,185],"perspectives,":[35],"and":[36,65,103,112,162,177,198],"limited":[37],"model":[38,147],"performance":[39,148],"in":[40,186],"real-world":[41],"settings.":[42],"To":[43],"address":[44],"this":[45,187],"gap,":[46],"we":[47,78,94,123,141,169],"introduce":[48],"BTS,":[49],"a":[50,60,96,125],"comprehensive":[51],"Benchmark":[52],"for":[53,63,183],"Tie":[54],"Strength":[55],"prediction,":[56],"aiming":[57],"establish":[59],"standardized":[61,83,126],"foundation":[62],"evaluating":[64],"advancing":[66],"TS":[67,74,80,90,118],"prediction":[68,146],"methodologies.":[69],"Specifically,":[70],"our":[71],"contributions":[72],"are:":[73],"Pseudo-Label":[75,119],"Techniques":[76],"--":[77,93,122,140],"categorize":[79],"into":[81],"seven":[82],"pseudo-labeling":[84],"techniques":[85],"based":[86],"on":[87,165,180],"prior":[88],"literature;":[89],"Dataset":[91],"Collection":[92],"present":[95],"representative":[97],"collection":[98],"three":[100],"perform":[104],"data":[105],"analysis":[106],"investigating":[108],"class":[110],"distributions":[111],"correlations":[113],"across":[114],"generated":[116],"pseudo-labels;":[117],"Evaluation":[120],"Framework":[121],"propose":[124],"framework":[127],"evaluate":[129,142],"pseudo-label":[131],"quality":[132],"from":[133],"perspective":[135],"resilience;":[138],"Benchmarking":[139],"existing":[143,175],"using":[149],"BTS":[151,190],"dataset":[152,191],"collection,":[153,192],"exploring":[154],"effects":[156],"different":[158],"experiment":[159],"settings,":[160],"models,":[161],"evaluation":[163],"criteria":[164],"results.":[167],"Furthermore,":[168],"derive":[170],"key":[171],"insights":[172],"enhance":[174],"methods":[176],"shed":[178],"light":[179],"promising":[181],"directions":[182],"future":[184],"domain.":[188],"along":[193],"with":[194],"curation":[196],"codes":[197],"experimental":[199],"scripts,":[200],"is":[201],"all":[202],"available":[203],"at:":[204],"https://github.com/XueqiC/Awesome-Tie-Strength-Prediction.":[205]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-07-14T23:27:15.235271","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}