Question of Role Identification vs Network Embedding

[BradKML]

Observing https://github.com/maxuewei2/RiWalk#riwalk there seem to be two tasks: Role Identification and Network Embedding
ALgorithm wise however, this can be compared to Node Proximity and Structural Identity in the following documentation:

• https://github.com/jwu4sml/Graph-Embedding-Techniques#1-pure-network-embedding
• Fig 3 of http://pengcui.thumedialab.com/papers/NetworkEmbeddingSurvey.pdf