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Detection of overlapping communities in real-world networks is a generally challenging task. Upon recognizing that a network is in fact the union of its egonets, a novel network representation using multi-way data structures is advocated in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Georgios B. Giannakis

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

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Ming Li , Won-Yong Shin

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 is a fundamental and critical characteristic of an undirected social network, making community detection be a vital yet thorny issue in network representation learning. A symmetric and non-negative matrix factorization (SNMF)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zhigang Liu , Xin Luo

The richness of definitions and features of the community-detection problem has led to an impressive body of literature. In fact, many community-detection methods and surveys have been introduced in recent years. The goal here is to present…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Hocine Cherifi

Nowadays, the interest given by the scientific community to the investigation of the data generated by social networks is increasing as much as the exponential increasing of social network data. The data structure complexity is one among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Youcef Abdelsadek , Kamel Chelghoum , Francine Herrmann , Imed Kacem , Benoît Otjacques

Community detection algorithms have been widely used to study the organization of complex systems like the brain. A principal appeal of these techniques is their ability to identify a partition of brain regions (or nodes) into communities,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-20 Arian Ashourvan , Qawi K. Telesford , Timothy Verstynen , Jean M. Vettel , Danielle S. Bassett

Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating graphs is community detection, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-23 Luis F Seoane

We present a principled approach for detecting overlapping temporal community structure in dynamic networks. Our method is based on the following framework: find the overlapping temporal community structure that maximizes a quality function…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-29 Yudong Chen , Vikas Kawadia , Rahul Urgaonkar

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…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-25 Frank Havemann , Michael Heinz , Alexander Struck , Jochen Gläser

Nowadays, detecting anomalous communities in networks is an essential task in research, as it helps discover insights into community-structured networks. Most of the existing methods leverage either information regarding attributes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Shay Lapid , Dima Kagan , Michael Fire

This paper reviews the state of the art in overlapping community detection algorithms, quality measures, and benchmarks. A thorough comparison of different algorithms (a total of fourteen) is provided. In addition to community level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jierui Xie , Stephen Kelley , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Communities are not static; they evolve, split and merge, appear and disappear, i.e. they are product of dynamical processes that govern the evolution of the network. A good algorithm for community detection should not only quantify the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Angel Stanoev , Daniel Smilkov , Ljupco Kocarev

A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Community is a universal structure in various complex networks, and community detection is a fundamental task for network analysis. With the rapid growth of network scale, networks are massive, changing rapidly and could naturally be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yanhao Yang , Meng Wang , David Bindel , Kun He

Conventional network data has largely focused on pairwise interactions between two entities, yet multi-way interactions among multiple entities have been frequently observed in real-life hypergraph networks. In this article, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-06 Yaoming Zhen , Junhui Wang

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Community detection is a fundamental task in social network analysis. In this paper, first we develop an endorsement filtered user connectivity network by utilizing Heider's structural balance theory and certain Twitter triad patterns.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Mert Ozer , Nyunsu Kim , Hasan Davulcu

Community discovery in complex networks is an interesting problem with a number of applications, especially in the knowledge extraction task in social and information networks. However, many large networks often lack a particular community…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Michele Coscia , Giulio Rossetti , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi

Community detection techniques are useful for social media platforms to discover tightly connected groups of users who share common interests. However, this functionality often comes at the expense of potentially exposing individuals to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Andrea Bernini , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei