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Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Community structure is a typical property of many real-world networks, and has become a key to understand the dynamics of the networked systems. In these networks most nodes apparently lie in a community while there often exists a few nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Zhan Weihua , Chen Huahui , Guan Jihong , Jin Guang

Community detection is a key tool for analyzing the structure of large networks. Standard methods, such as modularity optimization, focus on identifying densely connected groups but often overlook natural local separations in the graph. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Sarah Frenkel , Johannes Carmesin

Community detection techniques are useful for social media platforms to discover tightly connected groups of users who share common interests. However, this functionality often comes at the expense of potentially exposing individuals to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Andrea Bernini , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

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

Recent research has shown that virtually all algorithms aimed at the identification of communities in networks are affected by the same main limitation: the impossibility to detect communities, even when these are well-defined, if the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-07 Filippo Radicchi

We propose a new algorithm to detect the community structure in a network that utilizes both the network structure and vertex attribute data. Suppose we have the network structure together with the vertex attribute data, that is, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Shun Kataoka , Takuto Kobayashi , Muneki Yasuda , Kazuyuki Tanaka

In this paper, we study the crucial elements of complex networks, namely nodes, and edges and their properties such as their community structure, which play an important role in dictating the robustness of the network towards structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-04 V. Parimi , A. Pal , S. Ruj , P. Kumaraguru , T. Chakraborty

Clusters or communities can provide a coarse-grained description of complex systems at multiple scales, but their detection remains challenging in practice. Community detection methods often define communities as dense subgraphs, or…

Analysis of networks and in particular discovering communities within networks has been a focus of recent work in several fields, with applications ranging from citation and friendship networks to food webs and gene regulatory networks.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-19 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

A challenging problem in the study of complex systems is that of resolving, without prior information, the emergent, mesoscopic organization determined by groups of units whose dynamical activity is more strongly correlated internally than…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-04-21 Mel MacMahon , Diego Garlaschelli

Constrained clustering has been well-studied in the unsupervised learning society. However, how to encode constraints into community structure detection, within complex networks, remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Despite the prevalence of community detection algorithms, relatively less work has been done on understanding whether a network is indeed modular and how resilient the community structure is under perturbations. To address this issue, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-11 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Sriram Srinivasan , Niloy Ganguly , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

Any network studied in the literature is inevitably just a sampled representative of its real-world analogue. Additionally, network sampling is lately often applied to large networks to allow for their faster and more efficient analysis.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Neli Blagus , Lovro Šubelj , Gregor Weiss , Marko Bajec

The problem of node-centric, or local, community detection in information networks refers to the identification of a community for a given input node, having limited information about the network topology. Existing methods for solving this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli , Dino Ienco , Arnaud Sallaberry , Pascal Poncelet

Community detection is a core tool for analyzing large realworld graphs. It is often used to derive additional local features of vertices and edges that will be used to perform a downstream task, yet the impact of community detection on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of edges connecting them. Previous work indicates that a robust approach to this problem is the maximization of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Community detection algorithms have been widely used to study the organization of complex systems like the brain. A principal appeal of these techniques is their ability to identify a partition of brain regions (or nodes) into communities,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-20 Arian Ashourvan , Qawi K. Telesford , Timothy Verstynen , Jean M. Vettel , Danielle S. Bassett

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for complex networks, which can simplify their functional analysis considerably. Recently, many approaches were proposed to community structure detection, but few works were focused on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-11 Yanqing Hu , Yiming Ding , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

Many empirical networks have community structure, in which nodes are densely interconnected within each community (i.e., a group of nodes) and sparsely across different communities. Like other local and meso-scale structure of networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-10 Sadamori Kojaku , Naoki Masuda