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Many complex systems in nature and society can be described in terms of networks capturing the intricate web of connections among the units they are made of. A key question is how to interpret the global organization of such networks as the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Gergely Palla , Imre Derenyi , Illes Farkas , Tamas Vicsek

In this paper, we develop the idea to partition the edges of a weighted graph in order to uncover overlapping communities of its nodes. Our approach is based on the construction of different types of weighted line graphs, i.e. graphs whose…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-10-22 T. S. Evans , R. Lambiotte

Comparing networks is essential for a number of downstream tasks, from clustering to anomaly detection. Despite higher-order interactions being critical for understanding the dynamics of complex systems, traditional approaches for network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-03 Helcio Felippe , Alec Kirkley , Federico Battiston

In this work we address the problem of detecting overlapping communities in social networks. Because the word "community" is an ambiguous term, it is necessary to quantify what it means to be a community within the context of a particular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Michael Brutz , Francois G. Meyer

A deluge of new data on social, technological and biological networked systems suggests that a large number of interactions among system units are not limited to pairs, but rather involve a higher number of nodes. To properly encode such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Many networks in nature, society and technology are characterized by a mesoscopic level of organization, with groups of nodes forming tightly connected units, called communities or modules, that are only weakly linked to each other.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Janos Kertesz

In many real world datasets arising from social networks, there are hidden higher order relations among data points which cannot be captured using graph modeling. It is natural to use a more general notion of hypergraphs to model such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dong Quan Ngoc Nguyen , Lin Xing

We define an approach to identify overlapping communities in multiplex networks, extending the popular clique percolation method for simple graphs. The extension requires to rethink the basic concepts on which the clique percolation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Nazanin Afsarmanesh , Matteo Magnani

In this paper, we use a partition of the links of a network in order to uncover its community structure. This approach allows for communities to overlap at nodes, so that nodes may be in more than one community. We do this by making a node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-24 T. S. Evans , R. Lambiotte

We propose a novel statistical model for sparse networks with overlapping community structure. The model is based on representing the graph as an exchangeable point process, and naturally generalizes existing probabilistic models with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-06 Adrien Todeschini , Xenia Miscouridou , François Caron

A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a common claim in the recent literature on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Tiago P. Peixoto , Leto Peel , Thilo Gross , Manlio De Domenico

A wide variety of complex networks (social, biological, information etc.) exhibit local clustering with substantial variation in the clustering coefficient (the probability of neighbors being connected). Existing models of large graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Samantha Petti , Santosh Vempala

Community structure exists in many real-world networks and has been reported being related to several functional properties of the networks. The conventional approach was partitioning nodes into communities, while some recent studies start…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-15 Youngdo Kim , Hawoong Jeong

No community detection algorithm can be optimal for all possible networks, thus it is important to identify whether the algorithm is suitable for a given network. We propose a multi-step algorithmic solution scheme for overlapping community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tianyi Li , Pan Zhang

Hypergraphs offer an explicit formalism to describe multibody interactions in complex systems. To connect dynamics and function in systems with these higher-order interactions, network scientists have generalised random-walk models to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-02 Anton Eriksson , Daniel Edler , Alexis Rojas , Martin Rosvall

A "community" in a social network is usually understood to be a group of nodes more densely connected with each other than with the rest of the network. This is an important concept in most domains where networks arise: social,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-12-09 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Sushant Sachdeva , Grant Schoenebeck

The society has a multi-layered structure, where the layers represent the different contexts. To model this structure we begin with a single-layer weighted social network (WSN) model showing the Granovetterian structure. We find that when…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-28 Janos Kertesz , Janos Torok , Yohsuke Murase , Hang-Hyun Jo , Kimmo Kaski

The line graphs are clustered and assortative. They share these topological features with some social networks. We argue that this similarity reveals the cliquey character of the social networks. In the model proposed here, a social network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Malgorzata Krawczyk , Lev Muchnik , Anna Mańka-Krasoń , Krzysztof Kułakowski

Most networks found in social and biochemical systems have modular structures. An important question prompted by the modularity of these networks is whether nodes can be said to belong to a single group. If they cannot, we would need to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-02 Erin N. Sawardecker , Marta Sales-Pardo , Luís A. Nunes Amaral