English
Related papers

Related papers: Evaluating accuracy of community detection using t…

200 papers

Small target detection is inherently challenging due to the minimal size, lack of distinctive features, and the presence of complex backgrounds. Heavy noise further complicates the task by both obscuring and imitating the target appearance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Nicholas Bampton , Tian J. Ma , Minh N. Do

Multi-view data arises frequently in modern network analysis e.g. relations of multiple types among individuals in social network analysis, longitudinal measurements of interactions among observational units, annotated networks with noisy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Xiaodong Yang , Buyu Lin , Subhabrata Sen

Most existing approaches for community detection require complete information of the graph in a specific scale, which is impractical for many social networks. We propose a novel algorithm that does not embrace the universal approach but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-30 Hui-Jia Li , Junhua Zhang , Zhi-Ping Liu , Luonan Chen , Xiang-Sun Zhang

Mutual information (MI) is an information-theoretic measure of dependency between two random variables. Several methods to estimate MI, from samples of two random variables with unknown underlying probability distributions have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 P Aditya Sreekar , Ujjwal Tiwari , Anoop Namboodiri

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yuan Li

Fair clustering aims to divide data into distinct clusters while preventing sensitive attributes (\textit{e.g.}, gender, race, RNA sequencing technique) from dominating the clustering. Although a number of works have been conducted and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Pengxin Zeng , Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Dezhong Peng , Jiancheng Lv , Xi Peng

Educational data mining has become an important research field in studying the social behavior of college students using massive data. However, traditional campus friendship network and their community detection algorithms, which lack time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Ren Chao , Yang Menghui

Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-06-26 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

With the rapid development of Internet technology, online social networks (OSNs) have got fast development and become increasingly popular. Meanwhile, the research works across multiple social networks attract more and more attention from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Ziqing Zhu , Tao Zhou , Chenghao Jia , Weijia Liu , Jiuxin Cao

A common data mining task on networks is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into structural groups based on statistical regularities in the network's connectivity. Although many methods exist, the No…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-10 Amir Ghasemian , Homa Hosseinmardi , Aaron Clauset

Computation of Mutual Information (MI) helps understand the amount of information shared between a pair of random variables. Automated feature selection techniques based on MI ranking are regularly used to extract information from sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Ankit Srivastava , Samira Pouyanfar , Joshua Allen , Ken Johnston , Qida Ma

Mutual information is a widely-used information theoretic measure to quantify the amount of association between variables. It is used extensively in many applications such as image registration, diagnosis of failures in electrical machines,…

Computation · Statistics 2021-08-21 Luai Al-Labadi , Forough Fazeli-Asl , Zahra Saberi

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence, with a myriad of applications to information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While it possesses many desirable structural properties, the estimation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald

When searching for communities in networks, domain experts may have some prior expectations about the size of communities. Yet, community detection methods normally do not optimize communities under cluster size constraints.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-26 Filipi N. Silva , Samin Aref , Vincent Traag , Santo Fortunato

Consider an undirected network with $n$ nodes and $K$ perceivable communities, where some nodes may have mixed memberships. We assume that for each node $1 \leq i \leq n$, there is a probability mass function $\pi_i$ defined over $\{1, 2,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Jiashun Jin , Zheng Tracy Ke

We studied the mutual information between a stimulus and a large system consisting of stochastic, statistically independent elements that respond to a stimulus. The Mutual Information (MI) of the system saturates exponentially with system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kukjin Kang , Haim Sompolinsky

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

In this paper we propose weighted symmetric binary matrix factorization (wSBMF) framework to detect overlapping communities in bipartite networks, which describe relationships between two types of nodes. Our method improves performance by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Yong-Yeol Ahn

A precise definition of what constitutes a community in networks has remained elusive. Consequently, network scientists have compared community detection algorithms on benchmark networks with a particular form of community structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Martin Rosvall , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte