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: 13078
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.6368384e-05
Overall Rank: 7,348 | 49.59%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554901

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Authors

1. Yizhou Sun (University of California Los Angeles)
2. Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Xifeng Yan (University of California Santa Barbara)
4. Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois Chicago)
5. Tianyi Wu (Meta)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sun_vldb22,
        title = {{Heterogeneous Information Networks: the Past, the Present, and the Future}},
        author = {Sun, Yizhou and Han, Jiawei and Yan, Xifeng and Yu, Philip S. and Wu, Tianyi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3807--3811},
        doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554901},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554901},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,754	Community Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks Without Materialization	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,285	Complex-Path: Effective and Efficient Node Ranking with Paths in Billion-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,396	Prerequisite-driven Fair Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
731	PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks	2011	VLDB	0.00014537965

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