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Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks. Some of the most promising are methods based on statistical inference, which rest on solid mathematical foundations and return excellent results in practice. In this paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-13 M. E. J. Newman

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

We consider the stochastic block model where connection between vertices is perturbed by some latent (and unobserved) random geometric graph. The objective is to prove that spectral methods are robust to this type of noise, even if they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sandrine Peche , Vianney Perchet

In network analysis, developing a unified theoretical framework that can compare methods under different models is an interesting problem. This paper proposes a partial solution to this problem. We summarize the idea of using separation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huan Qing

Local community detection consists of finding a group of nodes closely related to the seeds, a small set of nodes of interest. Such group of nodes are densely connected or have a high probability of being connected internally than their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Dany Kamuhanda , Meng Wang , Kun He

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem under either the stochastic block model (SBM) assumption or the degree-correlated stochastic block model (DCSBM) assumption. The modularity maximization formulation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Junyu Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Shuzhong Zhang

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

Real-world networks carry all kinds of noise, resulting in numerous challenges for community detection. Further improving the performance and robustness of community detection has attracted significant attention. This paper considers edge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kai Wu , Ziang Xie , Jing Liu

Several applications have a community structure where the nodes of the same community share similar attributes. Anomaly or outlier detection in networks is a relevant and widely studied research topic with applications in various domains.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Rodrigo Francisquini , Ana Carolina Lorena , Mariá C. V. Nascimento

Parametric resampling schemes have been recently introduced in complex network analysis with the aim of assessing the statistical significance of graph clustering and the robustness of community partitions. We propose here a method to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-02-25 Fabrizio De Vico Fallani , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora , Mario Chavez

Revealing a community structure in a network or dataset is a central problem arising in many scientific areas. The modularity function $Q$ is an established measure quantifying the quality of a community, being identified as a set of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Francesco Tudisco , Pedro Mercado , Matthias Hein

Discovering low-dimensional structure in real-world networks requires a suitable null model that defines the absence of meaningful structure. Here we introduce a spectral approach for detecting a network's low-dimensional structure, and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mark D. Humphries , Javier A. Caballero , Mat Evans , Silvia Maggi , Abhinav Singh

The Bethe-Hessian matrix, introduced by Saade, Krzakala, and Zdeborov\'a (2014), is a Hermitian matrix designed for applying spectral clustering algorithms to sparse networks. Rather than employing a non-symmetric and high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ludovic Stephan , Yizhe Zhu

In this paper, we investigate community detection in networks in the presence of node covariates. In many instances, covariates and networks individually only give a partial view of the cluster structure. One needs to jointly infer the full…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-26 Bowei Yan , Purnamrita Sarkar

Community detection is the problem of identifying community structure in graphs. Often the graph is modeled as a sample from the Stochastic Block Model, in which each vertex belongs to a community. The probability that two vertices are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Souvik Dhara , Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

Consider a network consisting of two subnetworks (communities) connected by some external edges. Given the network topology, the community detection problem can be cast as a graph partitioning problem that aims to identify the external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

Modern network analysis often involves multi-layer network data in which the nodes are aligned, and the edges on each layer represent one of the multiple relations among the nodes. Current literature on multi-layer network data is mostly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang , Ying Yang

Multilayer networks are in the focus of the current complex network study. In such networks multiple types of links may exist as well as many attributes for nodes. To fully use multilayer -- and other types of complex networks in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-23 Hannu Reittu , Lasse Leskelä , Tomi Räty

The different approaches developed to analyze the structure of complex networks have generated a large number of studies. In the field of social networks at least, studies mainly address the detection and analysis of communities. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Djellabi Mehdi , Jouve Bertrand , Amblard Frédéric

The information-theoretic limits of community detection have been studied extensively for network models with high levels of symmetry or homogeneity. The contribution of this paper is to study a broader class of network models that allow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Galen Reeves , Vaishakhi Mayya , Alexander Volfovsky