Label Propagation Demystified

A simple introduction to graph-based label propagation

Vijini Mallawaarachchi
Towards Data Science
7 min readMar 6, 2020

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Social media networks have spanned across the globe and are growing day-by-day. Consider a social media network where you know the interests of some people and you want to predict the interests of others so that we can target marketing campaigns. For this purpose, we can use the graph-based semi-supervised machine learning technique called Label Propagation. In this article, I will explain the label propagation process with some examples and sample code.

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