Heterogeneous Information Networks: the Past, the Present, and the Future

Summary: Revisits PathSim and meta-paths as the foundation of cross-type node similarity in HINs, with a general schema. Explores representation learning (shallow embeddings, HGNNs), links HINs to knowledge graphs and symbolic reasoning, and future directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12890
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.6990255e-05
Overall Rank: 7,600 | 47.13%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554901

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,474	Community Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks Without Materialization	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,079	Complex-Path: Effective and Efficient Node Ranking with Paths in Billion-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,193	Prerequisite-driven Fair Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Networks	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
768	PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks	2011	VLDB	0.00016919065

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