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Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network into groups. Existing inferential methods for community structure mainly focus on unweighted (binary) networks. Many real-world networks are nonetheless weighted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Mingao Yuan , Zuofeng Shang

The information-theoretic limits of community detection have been studied extensively for network models with high levels of symmetry or homogeneity. The contribution of this paper is to study a broader class of network models that allow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Galen Reeves , Vaishakhi Mayya , Alexander Volfovsky

In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous classification and estimation of hidden parameters in a sensor network with communications constraints. In particular, we consider a network of noisy sensors which measure a common…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Fabio Fagnani , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi

We give upper and lower bounds on the information-theoretic threshold for community detection in the stochastic block model. Specifically, consider the symmetric stochastic block model with $q$ groups, average degree $d$, and connection…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Jess Banks , Cristopher Moore , Joe Neeman , Praneeth Netrapalli

Currently, we are overwhelmed by a deluge of experimental data, and network physics has the potential to become an invaluable method to increase our understanding of large interacting datasets. However, this potential is often unrealized…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-30 Juyong Lee , Steven P. Gross , Jooyoung Lee

In this work we address the problem of detecting overlapping communities in social networks. Because the word "community" is an ambiguous term, it is necessary to quantify what it means to be a community within the context of a particular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Michael Brutz , Francois G. Meyer

Community detection in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

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

The problem of node-centric, or local, community detection in information networks refers to the identification of a community for a given input node, having limited information about the network topology. Existing methods for solving this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli , Dino Ienco , Arnaud Sallaberry , Pascal Poncelet

We survey some of the concepts, methods, and applications of community detection, which has become an increasingly important area of network science. To help ease newcomers into the field, we provide a guide to available methodology and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Mason A. Porter , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , Peter J. Mucha

Recently, a phase transition has been discovered in the network community detection problem below which no algorithm can tell which nodes belong to which communities with success any better than a random guess. This result has, however, so…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Pan Zhang , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

Community detection is an important task in social network analysis, allowing us to identify and understand the communities within the social structures. However, many community detection approaches either fail to assign low degree (or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Ninareh Mehrabi , Fred Morstatter , Nanyun Peng , Aram Galstyan

We consider the problem of community detection from the joint observation of a high-dimensional covariate matrix and $L$ sparse networks, all encoding noisy, partial information about the latent community labels of $n$ subjects. In the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shuyang Gong , Dong Huang , Zhangsong Li

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Complex networks are a powerful paradigm to model complex systems. Specific network models, e.g., multilayer networks, temporal networks, and signed networks, enrich the standard network representation with additional information to better…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Edoardo Galimberti

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Many times the nodes of a complex network, whether deliberately or not, are aggregated for technical, ethical, legal limitations or privacy reasons. A common example is the geographic position: one may uncover communities in a network of…

Community detection in multi-layer networks has emerged as a crucial area of modern network analysis. However, conventional approaches often assume that nodes belong exclusively to a single community, which fails to capture the complex…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Huan Qing

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

Social networks are the social structures which are composed of people and their relationships and nowadays, play an important role in data extension. In such networks, the communities are recognized as the groups of users who are often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Reyhaneh Rigia , Mehrdad Jalali , Mohammad Hosein Moattar