English
Related papers

Related papers: In-Network Neighborhood-Based Node Similarity Meas…

200 papers

Nestedness is a property of interaction networks widely observed in natural mutualistic communities. Despite a widespread interest on this pattern, no general consensus exists on how to measure it. Instead, several metrics aiming at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-04 Claudia Payrato-Borras , Laura Hernandez , Yamir Moreno

Community detection is a fundamental task in complex network analysis. Fairness-aware community detection seeks to prevent biased node partitions, typically framed in terms of individual fairness, which requires similar nodes to be treated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Fabrizio Corriera , Frank W. Takes , Akrati Saxena

Neural Networks have high accuracy in solving problems where it is difficult to detect patterns or create a logical model. However, these algorithms sometimes return wrong solutions, which become problematic in high-risk domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Miguel N. Font , José L. Jorro-Aragoneses , Carlos M. Alaíz

We address the problem of finding reliable dense correspondences between a pair of images. This is a challenging task due to strong appearance differences between the corresponding scene elements and ambiguities generated by repetitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Ignacio Rocco , Mircea Cimpoi , Relja Arandjelović , Akihiko Torii , Tomas Pajdla , Josef Sivic

Modularity is a widely used measure for evaluating community structure in networks. The definition of modularity involves a comparison of within-community edges in the observed network and that number in an equivalent randomized network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

Quantifying the similarity between two networks is critical in many applications. A number of algorithms have been proposed to compute graph similarity, mainly based on the properties of nodes and edges. Interestingly, most of these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-22 Ahmad Mheich , Mahmoud Hassan , Mohamad Khalil , Vincent Gripon , Olivier Dufor , Fabrice Wendling

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

Computing meaningful clusters of nodes is crucial to analyze large networks. In this paper, we present a pairwise node similarity measure that allows to extract roles, i.e. group of nodes sharing similar flow patterns within a network. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Arnaud Browet , Paul Van Dooren

Estimating similarity between vertices is a fundamental issue in network analysis across various domains, such as social networks and biological networks. Methods based on common neighbors and structural contexts have received much…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jing Zhang , Jie Tang , Cong Ma , Hanghang Tong , Yu Jing , Juanzi Li

While most network embedding techniques model the proximity between nodes in a network, recently there has been significant interest in structural embeddings that are based on node equivalences, a notion rooted in sociology: equivalences or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Junchen Jin , Mark Heimann , Di Jin , Danai Koutra

Network alignment, the process of finding correspondences between nodes in different graphs, has many scientific and industrial applications. Existing unsupervised network alignment methods find suboptimal alignments that break up node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiyuan Chen , Mark Heimann , Fatemeh Vahedian , Danai Koutra

We first exhibit a multimodal image registration task, for which a neural network trained on a dataset with noisy labels reaches almost perfect accuracy, far beyond noise variance. This surprising auto-denoising phenomenon can be explained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Guillaume Charpiat , Nicolas Girard , Loris Felardos , Yuliya Tarabalka

Centrality measures quantify the importance of a node in a network based on different geometric or diffusive properties, and focus on different scales. Here, we adopt a geometrical viewpoint to define a multi-scale centrality in networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

Graph theoretical approach has proved an effective tool to understand, characterize and quantify the complex brain network. However, much less attention has been paid to methods that quantitatively compare two graphs, a crucial issue in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-29 Ahmad Mheich , Fabrice Wendling , Mahmoud Hassan

Node embedding is the task of extracting informative and descriptive features over the nodes of a graph. The importance of node embeddings for graph analytics, as well as learning tasks such as node classification, link prediction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Most approaches that tackle the problem of node classification consider nodes to be similar, if they have shared neighbors or are close to each other in the graph. Recent methods for attributed graphs additionally take attributes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Evgeniy Faerman , Felix Borutta , Julian Busch , Matthias Schubert

Similarity is a comparative-subjective measure that varies with the domain within which it is considered. In several NLP applications such as document classification, pattern recognition, chatbot question-answering, sentiment analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Manuela Nayantara Jeyaraj , Dharshana Kasthurirathna

Unveil the homophilic/heterophilic behaviors that characterize the wiring patterns of complex networks is an important task in social network analysis, often approached studying the assortative mixing of node attributes. Recent works…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Giulio Rossetti , Salvatore Citraro , Letizia Milli

Quantification of symmetries in complex networks is typically done globally in terms of automorphisms. Extending previous methods to locally assess the symmetry of nodes is not straightforward. Here we present a new framework to quantify…

Measuring the importance of nodes in a network with a centrality measure is a core task in any network application. There are many measures available and it is speculated that many encode similar information. We give an explicit non-linear…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-05 Tim S. Evans , Bingsheng Chen