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We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Networks are commonly used to model complex systems. The different entities in the system are represented by nodes of the network and their interactions by edges. In most real life systems, the different entities may interact in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

Modular and hierarchical community structures are pervasive in real-world complex systems. A great deal of effort has gone into trying to detect and study these structures. Important theoretical advances in the detection of modular have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Michael T. Schaub , Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

Revealing a community structure in a network or dataset is a central problem arising in many scientific areas. The modularity function $Q$ is an established measure quantifying the quality of a community, being identified as a set of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Francesco Tudisco , Pedro Mercado , Matthias Hein

Community detection in multi-layer undirected networks has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, multi-layer directed networks are common in the real world, and existing community detection methods often either ignore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Huan Qing

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Many networks of interest in the sciences, including a variety of social and biological networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or modules. The problem of detecting and characterizing this community structure has attracted…

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

The problem of community detection is relevant in many disciplines of science and modularity optimization is the widely accepted method for this purpose. It has recently been shown that this approach presents a resolution limit by which it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 A. D. Medus , C. O. Dorso

Much effort has gone into understanding the modular nature of complex networks. Communities, also known as clusters or modules, are typically considered to be densely interconnected groups of nodes that are only sparsely connected to other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-26 James P. Bagrow

Background: Network communities help the functional organization and evolution of complex networks. However, the development of a method, which is both fast and accurate, provides modular overlaps and partitions of a heterogeneous network,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 Istvan A. Kovacs , Robin Palotai , Mate S. Szalay , Peter Csermely

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Finding community structures in networks is important in network science, technology, and applications. To date, most algorithms that aim to find community structures only focus either on unipartite or bipartite networks. A unipartite…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-16 Chang Chang , Chao Tang

How can we accurately compare different community detection algorithms? These algorithms cluster nodes in a given network, and their performance is often validated on benchmark networks with explicit ground-truth communities. Given the lack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Justin Fagnan , Afra Abnar , Reihaneh Rabbany , Osmar R. Zaiane

Starting from a general \textit{ansatz}, we show how community detection can be interpreted as finding the ground state of an infinite range spin glass. Our approach applies to weighted and directed networks alike. It contains the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Joerg Reichardt , Stefan Bornholdt

The most widely used techniques for community detection in networks, including methods based on modularity, statistical inference, and information theoretic arguments, all work by optimizing objective functions that measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Maria A. Riolo , M. E. J. Newman

Layered neural networks have greatly improved the performance of various applications including image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, and bioinformatics. However, it is still difficult to discover or interpret…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-05 Chihiro Watanabe , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

A layered neural network is now one of the most common choices for the prediction of high-dimensional practical data sets, where the relationship between input and output data is complex and cannot be represented well by simple conventional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-16 Chihiro Watanabe , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

Given a graph of interactions, a module (also called a community or cluster) is a subset of nodes whose fitness is a function of the statistical significance of the pairwise interactions of nodes in the module. The topic of this paper is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Bhaskar DasGupta , Devendra Desai

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin