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Recent years have seen tremendous growth of many online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. People connect to each other through these networks forming large social communities providing researchers rich datasets to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi , Céline Rozenblat

We study the evolution of social networks that contain both friendly and unfriendly pairwise links between individual nodes. The network is endowed with dynamics in which the sense of a link in an imbalanced triad--a triangular loop with 1…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antal , P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

We investigate signed networks with community structure with respect to their spectrum and their evolution under a dynamical model of structural balance, a prominent theory of signed social networks. The spectrum of the adjacency matrix…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Megan Morrison , Michael Gabbay

Understanding emotional processing in the human brain requires examining the complex interactions between different brain regions. While previous studies have identified specific regions involved in emotion processing, a holistic network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-13 Sepehr Gourabi , Parinaz Khosravani , Shahrzad Nosrat , Roya Mohammadi , Masoud Lotfalipour

Alliances and conflicts in social, political and economic relations can be represented by positive and negative edges in signed networks. A cycle is said to be positive if the product of its edge signs is positive, otherwise it is negative.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-13 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Paolo Bartesaghi , Ernesto Estrada

Structural balance is an important characteristic of graphs/networks where edges can be positive or negative, with direct impact on the study of real-world complex systems. When a network is not structurally balanced, it is important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yu Tian , Ernesto Estrada

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring structural regularities of networks by dividing the nodes of a network into groups such that the members of each group have similar patterns of connections to other groups. Specifically,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng , Jia-Feng Guo

Bipartite networks provide a major insight into the organisation of many real-world systems. One of the most relevant issues encountered when modelling a bipartite network is that of facing the information shortage concerning intra-layer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-11 Anna Gallo , Fabio Saracco , Tiziano Squartini

Signed networks allow us to model conflicting relationships and interactions, such as friend/enemy and support/oppose. These signed interactions happen in real-time. Modeling such dynamics of signed networks is crucial to understanding the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Kartik Sharma , Mohit Raghavendra , Yeon Chang Lee , Anand Kumar M , Srijan Kumar

How do social networks evolve when both friendly and unfriendly relations exist? Here we propose a simple dynamics for social networks in which the sense of a relationship can change so as to eliminate imbalanced triads--relationship…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antal , P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Complex numbers define the relationship between entities in many situations. A canonical example would be the off-diagonal terms in a Hamiltonian matrix in quantum physics. Recent years have seen an increasing interest to extend the tools…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

Most of the analyses concerning signed networks have focused on the balance theory, hence identifying frustration with undirected, triadic motifs having an odd number of negative edges; much less attention has been paid to their directed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-07 Anna Gallo , Fabio Saracco , Renaud Lambiotte , Diego Garlaschelli , Tiziano Squartini

Random walks play an important role in probing the structure of complex networks. On traditional networks, they can be used to extract community structure, understand node centrality, perform link prediction, or capture the similarity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-13 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

Signed network embedding is an approach to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes in signed networks with both positive and negative links, which facilitates downstream tasks such as link prediction with general data mining…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Dengcheng Yan , Youwen Zhang , Wei Li , Yiwen Zhang

The frustration index is a key measure for analysing signed networks, which has been underused due to its computational complexity. We use an exact optimisation-based method to analyse frustration as a global structural property of signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Samin Aref , Mark C. Wilson

Networked structures arise in a wide array of different contexts such as technological and transportation infrastructures, social phenomena, and biological systems. These highly interconnected systems have recently been the focus of a great…

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

Link prediction is central to unraveling social network evolution and node relationships, as well as understanding the characteristic mechanisms of complex networks. Currently, research on link prediction for complex dynamic networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Gaoxin Zhang , Ruixing Ren , Junhui Zhao , Xiaoke Sun

Signed networks are graphs whose edges are labelled with either a positive or a negative sign, and can be used to capture nuances in interactions that are missed by their unsigned counterparts. The concept of balance in signed graph theory…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Bruno Ordozgoiti , Antonis Matakos , Aristides Gionis

Understanding the formation of social ties requires disentangling the roles of individual traits and local network structure. We analyse signed social relationships among 3,395 students using an interpretable machine learning model -- the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-10 María Pereda

Signed graphs are widely used to analyze complex systems such as social, political, and biological networks. The notion of balance, a key concept of signed graphs, reflects the stability of relationships. While it has been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyu Wang , Kudria Sergei , Jingbang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xinyu Wang , Xiaodong Luo , Can Wang