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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

The issue of network community detection has been extensively studied across many fields. Most community detection methods assume that nodes belong to only one community. However, in many cases, nodes can belong to multiple communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Do Duy Hieu , Phan Thi Ha Duong

Decision-making processes often involve voting. Human interactions with exogenous entities such as legislations or products can be effectively modeled as two-mode (bipartite) signed networks-where people can either vote positively,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-05 Elena Candellone , Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Sofia Chelmi , Javier Garcia-Bernardo

Network data has attracted growing interest across scientific domains, prompting the development of various network models. Existing network analysis methods mainly focus on unsigned networks, whereas signed networks, consisting of both…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yuwen Wang , Shiwen Ye , Jingnan Zhang , Junhui Wang

Algorithms for detecting communities in complex networks are generally unsupervised, relying solely on the structure of the network. However, these methods can often fail to uncover meaningful groupings that reflect the underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Elham Alghamdi , Derek Greene

Signed network structure discovery has received extensive attention and has become a research focus in the field of network science. However, most of the existing studies are focused on the networks with a single structure, e.g., community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yang Li , Bo Yang , Xuehua Zhao , Zhejian Yang , Hechang Chen

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

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

While there has been a plethora of approaches for detecting disjoint communities from real-world complex networks, some methods for detecting overlapping community structures have also been recently proposed. In this work, we argue that,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Saptarshi Ghosh , Noseong Park

Recent researches have discovered that rich interactions among entities in nature and society bring about complex networks with community structures. Although the investigation of the community structures has promoted the development of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-24 Nan Du , Bin Wu , Bai Wang , Yi Wang

Multiplex networks have emerged as a promising approach for modeling complex systems, where each layer represents a different mode of interaction among entities of the same type. A core task in analyzing these networks is to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

Community structures detection in signed network is very important for understanding not only the topology structures of signed networks, but also the functions of them, such as information diffusion, epidemic spreading, etc. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Chao Yan , Hui-Min Cheng , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

This paper reviews the state of the art in overlapping community detection algorithms, quality measures, and benchmarks. A thorough comparison of different algorithms (a total of fourteen) is provided. In addition to community level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jierui Xie , Stephen Kelley , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

We propose a new model to detect the overlapping communities of a network that is based on cooperative games and mathematical programming. More specifically, communities are defined as stable coalitions of a weighted graph community game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Stefano Benati , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía , Francisco Temprano

Community detection is an important task in network analysis. A community (also referred to as a cluster) is a set of cohesive vertices that have more connections inside the set than outside. In many social and information networks, these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Joyce Jiyoung Whang , David F. Gleich , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Community detection is the process of assigning nodes and links in significant communities (e.g. clusters, function modules) and its development has led to a better understanding of complex networks. When applied to sizable networks, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-15 Jean-Gabriel Young , Antoine Allard , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Louis J. Dubé

We present a new online algorithm for detecting overlapping communities. The main ingredients are a modification of an online k-means algorithm and a new approach to modelling overlap in communities. An evaluation on large benchmark graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor

Signed networks are frequently observed in real life with additional sign information associated with each edge, yet such information has been largely ignored in existing network models. This paper develops a unified embedding model for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoran Zhang , Junhui Wang

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu

Communities are of great importance for understanding graph structures in social networks. Some existing community detection algorithms use a single prototype to represent each group. In real applications, this may not adequately model the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan