<div dir="ltr">The next version of node2vec should probably be called system2vec.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:12 AM John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Very good summary. I suggest whoever is doing "contact tracing" look into the work on node2vec. Essentially, this is similar to word2vec (and I think is based on it). Instead of words, paths of nodes and arcs in a graph are created to place the nodes in a vector space where related nodes appear closer to each other. This provides differentiability for back-propagation and deep learning.<br><br>Node2Vec seems to pull upon a rich history of goal-seeking, programming by demonstration, Fuzz testing, model transformation by demonstration and likely many others.<div><br></div><div>If anyone wants to work on node2vec in virtual environments to create virtual agents, I would be interested in such a project. One might think of this as one form of HAnim animation, A BVH file representing a node2vec path.</div><div><br></div><div>The way I view this is node2vec provides many paths. One may then seek out branching paths, then looping or self-referential paths, then parallel paths, then distributed paths...In other words, node2vec-like paths provide programs for virtual agents. Obviously, I have skipped over things like exceptions, events, stop/resume, undo/redo, reversibility, etc.</div><div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:37 PM Don Brutzman <<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The Web3D Consortium is a non-profit Standards Development Organization (SDO) that is established to protect and advance multiple specifications including Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics, Humanoid Animation (HAnim) and our original standard, Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML).<br>
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