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Social systems are in a constant state of flux with dynamics spanning from minute-by-minute changes to patterns present on the timescale of years. Accurate models of social dynamics are important for understanding spreading of influence or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-02 Vedran Sekara , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , Sune Lehmann

Community detection approaches resolve complex networks into smaller groups (communities) that are expected to be relatively edge-dense and well-connected. The stochastic block model (SBM) is one of several approaches used to uncover…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

Data reflecting social and business relations has often form of network of connections between entities (called social network). In such network important and influential users can be identified as well as groups of strongly connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Bogdan Gliwa , Anna Zygmunt , Stanisław Podgórski

Information diffusion, spreading of infectious diseases, and spreading of rumors are fundamental processes occurring in real-life networks. In many practical cases, one can observe when nodes become infected, but the underlying network,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov , Nelly Litvak

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

In social networks, individuals constantly drop ties and replace them by new ones in a highly unpredictable fashion. This highly dynamical nature of social ties has important implications for processes such as the spread of information or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-22 Antonia Godoy-Lorite , Roger Guimera , Marta Sales-Pardo

Understanding the stability of complex communities is a central focus in ecology, many important theoretical advancements have been made to identify drivers of ecological stability. However, previous results often rely on the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-04 Shuaiying Wang , Yuguang Yang , Aming Li

Graphs may be used to represent many different problem domains -- a concrete example is that of detecting communities in social networks, which are represented as graphs. With big data and more sophisticated applications becoming widespread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Miguel E. Coimbra , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luis Veiga

Community detection is of great importance for understand-ing graph structure in social networks. The communities in real-world networks are often overlapped, i.e. some nodes may be a member of multiple clusters. How to uncover the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan

Given an underlying graph, we consider the following \emph{dynamics}: Initially, each node locally chooses a value in $\{-1,1\}$, uniformly at random and independently of other nodes. Then, in each consecutive round, every node updates its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Emanuele Natale , Francesco Pasquale , Luca Trevisan

Finding communities in evolving networks is a difficult task and raises issues different from the classic static detection case. We introduce an approach based on the recent vertex-centred paradigm. The proposed algorithm, named DynLOCNeSs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Maël Canu , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Adrien Revault d'Allonnes

Network science has presented community detection as a valuable tool for revealing functional modules in complex systems rooted in the wiring architectures of complex networks. The varying procedures of community detection can produce,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-11 Karsten N. Economou , Cassie R. Norman , Wendy C. Gentleman

Finding community structures in social networks is considered to be a challenging task as many of the proposed algorithms are computationally expensive and does not scale well for large graphs. Most of the community detection algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Partha Basuchowdhuri , Satyaki Sikdar , Varsha Nagarajan , Khusbu Mishra , Surabhi Gupta , Subhashis Majumder

Dynamic community detection provides a coherent description of network clusters over time, allowing one to track the growth and death of communities as the network evolves. However, modularity maximization, a popular method for performing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-25 Michael Vaiana , Sarah F. Muldoon

Graph embedding methods are becoming increasingly popular in the machine learning community, where they are widely used for tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Embedding graphs in geometric spaces should aid the…

In a graph, a community may be loosely defined as a group of nodes that are more closely connected to one another than to the rest of the graph. While there are a variety of metrics that can be used to specify the quality of a given…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Christine Klymko , David Gleich , Tamara G. Kolda

Community detection is a central task in graph analytics. Given the substantial growth in graph size, scalability in community detection continues to be an unresolved challenge. Recently, alongside established methods like Louvain and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tianyi Chen , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

The discovery of community structure is a common challenge in the analysis of network data. Many methods have been proposed for finding community structure, but few have been proposed for determining whether the structure found is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-29 Brian Karrer , Elizaveta Levina , M. E. J. Newman

Interactive networks representing user participation and interactions in specific "events" are highly dynamic, with communities reflecting collective behaviors that evolve over time. Predicting these community evolutions is crucial for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yanmei Hu , Yihang Wu , Biao Cai

Temporal Networks, and more specifically, Markovian Temporal Networks, present a unique challenge regarding the community discovery task. The inherent dynamism of these systems requires an intricate understanding of memory effects and…

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