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How does the shape of a network change as its size increases? Although random graph models provide some expectations for such "scaling behaviors" in the structure of networks, relatively little is known about how empirical network structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Upasana Dutta , Alexander Ray , Aaron Clauset

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

Many real-world networks have associated metadata that assigns categorical labels to nodes. Analysis of these annotations can complement the topological analysis of complex networks. Annotated networks have typically been used to evaluate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sung Soo Moon , Sebastian E. Ahnert

We propose two spectral algorithms for partitioning nodes in directed graphs respectively with a cyclic and an acyclic pattern of connection between groups of nodes. Our methods are based on the computation of extremal eigenvalues of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 H. Van Lierde , T. W. S. Chow , J. -C. Delvenne

Graphical models are frequently used to represent topological structures of various complex networks. Current criteria to assess different models of a network mainly rely on how close a model matches the network in terms of topological…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zhengping Fan , Guanrong Chen , Yunong Zhang

Many social and biological networks consist of communities - groups of nodes within which connections are dense, but between which connections are sparser. Recently, there has been considerable interest in designing algorithms for detecting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Chunguang Li , Philip K. Maini

We study the tailoring of structured random graph ensembles to real networks, with the objective of generating precise and practical mathematical tools for quantifying and comparing network topologies macroscopically, beyond the level of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Annibale , A. C. C. Coolen , L. P. Fernandes , F. Fraternali , J. Kleinjung

Nowadays there is a multitude of measures designed to capture different aspects of network structure. To be able to say if the structure of certain network is expected or not, one needs a reference model (null model). One frequently used…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Petter Holme , Jing Zhao

A self-contained account of the theory of structure trees for edge cuts in networks is given. Applications include a generalisation of the Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem to infinite networks and a short proof of a conjecture of Kropholler. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-27 M. J. Dunwoody

The random-cluster model, a correlated bond percolation model, unifies a range of important models of statistical mechanics in one description, including independent bond percolation, the Potts model and uniform spanning trees. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-28 Eren Metin Elçi , Martin Weigel , Nikolaos G. Fytas

We study the problem of identifying different behaviors occurring in different parts of a large heterogenous network. We zoom in to the network using lenses of different sizes to capture the local structure of the network. These network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Kshiteesh Hegde , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Networks of companies can be constructed by using return correlations. A crucial issue in this approach is to select the relevant correlations from the correlation matrix. In order to study this problem, we start from an empty graph with no…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -P. Onnela , K. Kaski , J. Kertesz

Characterizing large online social networks (OSNs) through node querying is a challenging task. OSNs often impose severe constraints on the query rate, hence limiting the sample size to a small fraction of the total network. Various ad-hoc…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Pinghui Wang , Bruno Ribeiro , Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan

Networked representations of real-world phenomena are often partially observed, which lead to incomplete networks. Analysis of such incomplete networks can lead to skewed results. We examine the following problem: given an incomplete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Sucheta Soundarajan , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Brian Gallagher , Ali Pinar

The structure of the network can be described by motifs, which are subgraphs that often repeat themselves. In order to understand the structure of network motifs, it is of great importance to study subgraphs from the perspective of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Ruize Gao , Ying Zhao

To understand the formation, evolution, and function of complex systems, it is crucial to understand the internal organization of their interaction networks. Partly due to the impossibility of visualizing large complex networks, resolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

A complex network is said to show topological isotropy if the topological structure around a particular node looks the same in all directions of the whole network. Topologically anisotropic networks are those where the local neighborhood…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-02 Ernesto Estrada

We revisit the elegant observation of T. Cover '65 which, perhaps, is not as well-known to the broader community as it should be. The first goal of the tutorial is to explain---through the prism of this elementary result---how to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Alexander Rakhlin , Karthik Sridharan

Partitioning large networks into stable clusters of synchronized nodes is a challenging task. Recent approaches based on spectral analysis can provide exact results on specific dynamics but remain unfeasible for very large networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-23 Massimo Ostilli

We investigate exponential families of random graph distributions as a framework for systematic quantification of structure in networks. In this paper we restrict ourselves to undirected unlabeled graphs. For these graphs, the counts of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-04-08 Eckehard Olbrich , Thomas Kahle , Nils Bertschinger , Nihat Ay , Juergen Jost