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Many real-world networks, including nervous systems, exhibit meso-scale structure. This means that their elements can be grouped into meaningful sub-networks. In general, these sub-networks are unknown ahead of time and must be "discovered"…

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Multiplex networks have emerged as a promising approach for modeling complex systems, where each layer represents a different mode of interaction among entities of the same type. A core task in analyzing these networks is to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

We propose a new model to detect the overlapping communities of a network that is based on cooperative games and mathematical programming. More specifically, communities are defined as stable coalitions of a weighted graph community game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Stefano Benati , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía , Francisco Temprano

This report presents a very simple algorithm for overlaping community-detection in large graphs under constraints such as the minimum and maximum number of members allowed. The algorithm is based on the simulation of random walks and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Luis Argerich

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

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

Many real networks that are inferred or collected from data are incomplete due to missing edges. Missing edges can be inherent to the dataset (Facebook friend links will never be complete) or the result of sampling (one may only have access…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Matthew Burgess , Eytan Adar , Michael Cafarella

Community detection, which aims to cluster $N$ nodes in a given graph into $r$ distinct groups based on the observed undirected edges, is an important problem in network data analysis. In this paper, the popular stochastic block model (SBM)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 T. Tony Cai , Xiaodong Li

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Community detection or clustering is a crucial task for understanding the structure of complex systems. In some networks, nodes are permitted to be linked by either "positive" or "negative" edges; such networks are called signed networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-13 Zhaoyue Zhong , Xiangrong Wang , Cunquan Qu , Guanghui Wang

Detecting communities has long been popular in the research on networks. It is usually modeled as an unsupervised clustering problem on graphs, based on heuristic assumptions about community characteristics, such as edge density and node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Carl Yang , Hanqing Lu , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Community detection can reveal the underlying structure and patterns of complex networks, identify sets of nodes with specific functions or similar characteristics, and study the evolution process and development trends of networks. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiaqi Yao , Lewis Mitchell

Networks (or graphs) are used to model the dyadic relations between entities in a complex system. In cases where there exists multiple relations between the entities, the complex system can be represented as a multilayer network, where the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Abhishek Santra , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Sharma Chakravarthy

Learning community structures in graphs has broad applications across scientific domains. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successful in encoding graph structures, existing GNN-based methods for community detection are limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-05 Yueqi Wang , Yoonho Lee , Pallab Basu , Juho Lee , Yee Whye Teh , Liam Paninski , Ari Pakman

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

We introduce a new conception of community structure, which we refer to as hidden community structure. Hidden community structure refers to a specific type of overlapping community structure, in which the detection of weak, but meaningful,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Kun He , Sucheta Soundarajan , Xuezhi Cao , John Hopcroft , Menglong Huang

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

An algorithm for the detection of overlapping natural communities in networks was proposed by Lancichinetti, Fortunato, and Kertesz (LFK) last year. The LFK algorithm constructs natural communities of (in principle) all nodes of a graph by…

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