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We study the problem of community detection in multi-layer networks, where pairs of nodes can be related in multiple modalities. We introduce a general framework, i.e., mixture multi-layer stochastic block model (MMSBM), which includes many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Bing-Yi Jing , Ting Li , Zhongyuan Lyu , Dong Xia

The discovery of community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention as a fundamental problem for various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin

Aiming at improving the efficiency and accuracy of community detection in complex networks, we proposed a new algorithm, which is based on the idea that communities could be detected from subnetworks by comparing the internal and external…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-20 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Weibing Deng

This study relates the local property of node dominance to local and global properties of a network. Iterative removal of dominated nodes yields a distributed algorithm for computing a core-periphery decomposition of a social network, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Jennifer Gamble , Harish Chintakunta , Adam Wilkerson , Hamid Krim , Ananthram Swami

Overlapping communities are key characteristics of the structure and function analysis of complex networks. Shared or overlapping nodes within overlapping communities can form either subcommunities or act as intersections between larger…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Vesa Kuikka , Kosti Koistinen , Kimmo K Kaski

Uncovering structural patterns in collaboration networks is key for understanding how knowledge flows and innovation emerges. These networks often exhibit a rich interplay of meso-scale structures, such as communities, core-periphery…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Sara Geremia , Domenico De Stefano , Michael Fop

Community detection is a key task to further understand the function and the structure of complex networks. Therefore, a strategy used to assess this task must be able to avoid biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

Information diffusion, spreading of infectious diseases, and spreading of rumors are fundamental processes occurring in real-life networks. In many practical cases, one can observe when nodes become infected, but the underlying network,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov , Nelly Litvak

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Community structure describes the organization of a network into subgraphs that contain a prevalence of edges within each subgraph and relatively few edges across boundaries between subgraphs. The development of community-detection methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-08 Saray Shai , Natalie Stanley , Clara Granell , Dane Taylor , Peter J. Mucha

Multilayer networks capture pairwise relationships between the components of complex systems across multiple modes or scales of interactions. An important meso-scale feature of these networks is measured though their community structure,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-12 Michael Vaiana , Sarah Muldoon

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu

The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the web), biological inquiries (functional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Filippo Radicchi , Claudio Castellano , Federico Cecconi , Vittorio Loreto , Domenico Parisi

Multiplex networks, a special type of multilayer networks, are increasingly applied in many domains ranging from social media analytics to biology. A common task in these applications concerns the detection of community structures. Many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Zhana Kuncheva , Giovanni Montana

Community detection refers to the task of discovering closely related subgraphs to understand the networks. However, traditional community detection algorithms fail to pinpoint a particular kind of community. This limits its applicability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Caihua Shan , Yiheng Sun , Yangyong Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Community structure is a typical property of many real-world networks, and has become a key to understand the dynamics of the networked systems. In these networks most nodes apparently lie in a community while there often exists a few nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Zhan Weihua , Chen Huahui , Guan Jihong , Jin Guang

Community detection, the division of a network into dense subnetworks with only sparse connections between them, has been a topic of vigorous study in recent years. However, while there exist a range of powerful and flexible methods for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-24 M. E. J. Newman , Gesine Reinert

Nearest neighbor search is a basic computational tool used extensively in almost research domains of computer science specially when dealing with large amount of data. However, the use of nearest neighbor search is restricted for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Suman Saha , S. P. Ghrera

The hypergraph community detection problem seeks to identify groups of related nodes in hypergraph data. We propose an information-theoretic hypergraph community detection algorithm which compresses the observed data in terms of community…

Community detection involves grouping the nodes in the network and is one of the most-studied tasks in network science. Conventional methods usually require the specification of the number of communities $K$ in the network. This number is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-30 Yuhua Zhang , Kori S. Zachrison , Renee Y. Hsia , Jukka-Pekka Onnela