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This paper considers a new framework to detect communities in a graph from the observation of signals at its nodes. We model the observed signals as noisy outputs of an unknown network process, represented as a graph filter that is excited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Hoi-To Wai , Santiago Segarra , Asuman E. Ozdaglar , Anna Scaglione , Ali Jadbabaie

Physical social encounters are governed by a set of socio-psychological behavioral rules with a high degree of uniform validity. Past research has shown how these rules or the resulting properties of the encounters (e.g. the geometry of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Daniel Raumer , Christoph Fuchs , Georg Groh

Community detection, discovering the underlying communities within a network from observed connections, is a fundamental problem in network analysis, yet it remains underexplored for signed networks. In signed networks, both edge connection…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

Motivated by a recent extension of the zero-one law by Kolaitis and Kopparty, we study the distribution of the number of copies of a fixed disconnected graph in the random graph $G(n,p)$. We use an idea of graph decompositions to give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Bobby DeMarco , Amanda Redlich

Denote by $A$ the adjacency matrix of an Erdos-Renyi graph with bounded average degree. We consider the problem of maximizing $\langle A-E\{A\},X\rangle$ over the set of positive semidefinite matrices $X$ with diagonal entries $X_{ii}=1$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Andrea Montanari , Subhabrata Sen

The study of complex networks has significantly advanced our understanding of community structures which serves as a crucial feature of real-world graphs. Detecting communities in graphs is a challenging problem with applications in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jiakang Li , Songning Lai , Zhihao Shuai , Yuan Tan , Yifan Jia , Mianyang Yu , Zichen Song , Xiaokang Peng , Ziyang Xu , Yongxin Ni , Haifeng Qiu , Jiayu Yang , Yutong Liu , Yonggang Lu

In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm for the estimation and control of the connectivity of ad-hoc networks in the presence of a random topology. First, given a generic random graph, we introduce a novel stochastic power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa

Network systems have become a ubiquitous modeling tool in many areas of science where nodes in a graph represent distributed processes and edges between nodes represent a form of dynamic coupling. When a network topology is already known…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-05-30 Donatello Materassi , Murti V. Salapaka

The present work is concerned with community detection. Specifically, we consider a random graph drawn according to the stochastic block model~: its vertex set is partitioned into blocks, or communities, and edges are placed randomly and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Ludovic Stephan , Laurent Massoulié

The problems of detecting and recovering planted structures/subgraphs in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, have received significant attention over the past three decades, leading to many exciting results and mathematical techniques.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Dor Elimelech , Wasim Huleihel

How can we uncover the natural communities in a real network that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new community detection algorithm, called Attractor, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junming Shao , Zhichao Han , Qinli Yang

Label propagation has proven to be an extremely fast method for detecting communities in large complex networks. Furthermore, due to its simplicity, it is also currently one of the most commonly adopted algorithms in the literature. Despite…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-06-29 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Community detection refers to finding densely connected groups of nodes in graphs. In important applications, such as cluster analysis and network modelling, the graph is sparse but outliers and heavy-tailed noise may obscure its structure.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Aylin Tastan , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Local community detection, the problem of identifying a set of relevant nodes nearby a small set of input seed nodes, is an important graph primitive with a wealth of applications and research activity. Recent approaches include using local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kyle Kloster , Yixuan Li

We present fast and efficient randomized distributed algorithms to find Hamiltonian cycles in random graphs. In particular, we present a randomized distributed algorithm for the $G(n,p)$ random graph model, with number of nodes $n$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Reza Fathi , Gopal Pandurangan , Nguyen Dinh Pham

This paper proposes a distributed pseudo-likelihood method (DPL) to conveniently identify the community structure of large-scale networks. Specifically, we first propose a block-wise splitting method to divide large-scale network data into…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Jiayi Deng , Danyang Huang , Bo Zhang

Community structure describes the organization of a network into subgraphs that contain a prevalence of edges within each subgraph and relatively few edges across boundaries between subgraphs. The development of community-detection methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-08 Saray Shai , Natalie Stanley , Clara Granell , Dane Taylor , Peter J. Mucha

We study the problem of distributed hypothesis testing with a network of agents where some agents repeatedly gain access to information about the correct hypothesis. The group objective is to globally agree on a joint hypothesis that best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe

We introduce a new class of identifiable DAG models where the conditional distribution of each node given its parents belongs to a family of generalized hypergeometric distributions (GHD). A family of generalized hypergeometric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-17 Gunwoong Park , Hyewon Park

Real-world graphs, such as social networks, financial transactions, and recommendation systems, often demonstrate dynamic behavior. This phenomenon, known as graph stream, involves the dynamic changes of nodes and the emergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yanping Zheng , Zhewei Wei , Jiajun Liu