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This article focuses on high-dimensional factor analysis involving network-connected observations, and we propose a generalized factor model with latent factors that account for both the network structure and the dependence structure among high-dimensional variables. These latent factors can be shared by the high-dimensional variables and the network, or exclusively applied to either of them. We develop a computationally efficient estimation procedure and establish asymptotic inferential theories. Notably, we show that by borrowing information from the network, the proposed estimator of the factor loading matrix achieves optimal asymptotic variance under much milder identifiability constraints than in existing literature. Furthermore, we develop a hypothesis testing procedure to tackle the challenge of discerning the structures of the shared and individual latent factors. 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