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### Structural equivalence
We say nodes u and v are structurally equivalent if they have the same relationships to each other. Structurally equivalent nodes are likely to be similar in many different ways. For example, node u and v are structurally equivalent in Figure 4 since they connect other nodes in the same way.
Roles allow us to identify different properties of nodes in network. Here we will introduce an automatic structural roles discovery method called RolX. It's an unsupervised learning approach without prior knowledge. Figure 5 is the RoIX approach overview.
The basic idea of recursive feature extraction is to aggregate features of a node and use them to generate new recursive features. By this way we can turn network connectivity into structural features.