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We propose a generalized stochastic block model to explore the mesoscopic structures in signed networks by grouping vertices that exhibit similar positive and negative connection profiles into the same cluster. In this model, the group…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jonathan Q. Jiang

Signed networks have long been used to represent social relations of amity (+) and enmity (-) between individuals. Group of individuals who are cyclically connected are said to be balanced if the number of negative edges in the cycle is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-19 P. -L. Giscard , P. Rochet , R. C. Wilson

In many real-world networks, relationships often go beyond simple dyadic presence or absence; they can be positive, like friendship, alliance, and mutualism, or negative, characterized by enmity, disputes, and competition. To understand the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Xuyang Chen , Yinjie Wang , Weijing Tang

In signed networks, some existing community detection methods treat negative connections as intercommunity links and positive ones as intracommunity links. However, it is important to recognize that negative links on real-world networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-17 Peng Zhang , Xianyu Xu , Leyang Xue

Recent studies from social, biological, and engineering network systems have drawn attention to the dynamics over signed networks, where each link is associated with a positive/negative sign indicating trustful/mistrustful,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson , John S. Baras , Karl H. Johansson

With the prevalence of social media, the connectedness between people has been greatly enhanced. Real-world relations between users on social media are often not limited to expressing positive ties such as friendship, trust, and agreement,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zeyu Zhang , Peiyao Zhao , Xin Li , Jiamou Liu , Xinrui Zhang , Junjie Huang , Xiaofeng Zhu

We study online social networks in which relationships can be either positive (indicating relations such as friendship) or negative (indicating relations such as opposition or antagonism). Such a mix of positive and negative links arise in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-15 Jure Leskovec , Daniel Huttenlocher , Jon Kleinberg

A signed network is a network with each link associated with a positive or negative sign. Models for nodes interacting over such signed networks, where two different types of interactions take place along the positive and negative links,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Guodong Shi , Claudio Altafini , John S. Baras

A class of networks are those with both positive and negative links. In this manuscript, we studied the interplay between positive and negative ties on mesoscopic level of these networks, i.e., their community structure. A community is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-05 Pouya Esmailian , Seyed Ebrahim Abtahi , Mahdi Jalili

Network visualization has established as a key complement to network analysis since the large variety of existing network layouts are able to graphically highlight different properties of networks. However, signed networks, i.e., networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Edoardo Galimberti , Chiara Madeddu , Francesco Bonchi , Giancarlo Ruffo

This work analyzes the convergence properties of signed networks with nonlinear edge functions. We consider diffusively coupled networks comprised of maximal equilibrium-independent passive (MEIP) dynamics on the nodes, and a general class…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Hao Chen , Daniel Zelazo , Xiangke Wang , Lincheng Shen

Signed networks contain both positive and negative kinds of interactions like friendship and enmity. The task of node classification in non-signed graphs has proven to be beneficial in many real world applications, yet extensions to signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Pedro Mercado , Jessica Bosch , Martin Stoll

Substantive research in the Social Sciences regularly investigates signed networks, where edges between actors are either positive or negative. For instance, schoolchildren can be friends or rivals, just as countries can cooperate or fight…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Cornelius Fritz , Marius Mehrl , Paul W. Thurner , Göran kauermann

Signed networks are mathematical structures that encode positive and negative relations between entities such as friend/foe or trust/distrust. Recently, several papers studied the construction of useful low-dimensional representations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Alexandru Mara , Yoosof Mashayekhi , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Data-driven analysis of large social networks has attracted a great deal of research interest. In this paper, we investigate 120 real social networks and their measurement-calibrated synthetic counterparts generated by four well-known…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Marcell Nagy , Roland Molontay

Understanding the structure of weighted signed networks is essential for analysing social systems in which relationships vary both in sign and strength. Despite significant advances in statistical network analysis, there is still a lack of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-06 Alberto Caimo , Isabella Gollini

We review the main tools which allow for the statistical characterization of weighted networks. We then present two case studies, the airline connection network and the scientific collaboration network, which are representative of critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marc Barthelemy , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

Network embedding has attracted an increasing attention over the past few years. As an effective approach to solve graph mining problems, network embedding aims to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xiao Shen , Fu-Lai Chung

Signed networks capture the polarity of relationships between nodes, providing valuable insights into complex systems where both supportive and antagonistic interactions play a critical role in shaping the network dynamics. We propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-05 Alberto Caimo , Isabella Gollini

Many real-world networks known as attributed networks contain two types of information: topology information and node attributes. It is a challenging task on how to use these two types of information to explore structural regularities. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-28 Zhenhai Chang , Caiyan Jia , Xianjun Yin , Yimei Zheng