English
Related papers

Related papers: Modular Networks for Validating Community Detectio…

200 papers

We present a fast spectral algorithm for community detection in complex networks. Our method searches for the partition with the maximum value of the modularity via the interplay of several refinement steps that include both agglomeration…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Santiago Treviño , Amy Nyberg , Charo I. Del Genio , Kevin E. Bassler

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

A network has a non-overlapping community structure if the nodes of the network can be partitioned into disjoint sets such that each node in a set is densely connected to other nodes inside the set and sparsely connected to the nodes out-…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Talasila Sai Deepak , Hindol Adhya , Shyamal Kejriwal , Bhanuteja Gullapalli , Saswata Shannigrahi

Uncovering modular structure in networks is fundamental for systems in biology, physics, and engineering. Community detection identifies candidate modules as hypotheses, which then need to be validated through experiments, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Marinka Zitnik , Rok Sosic , Jure Leskovec

A system of differential equations is proposed designed as to identify communities in weighted networks. The input is a symmetric connectivity matrix $A_{ij}$. A priori information on the number of communities is not needed. To verify the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-01-08 Malgorzata J. Krawczyk , Krzysztof Kulakowski

A degree-corrected distribution-free model is proposed for weighted social networks with latent structural information. The model extends the previous distribution-free models by considering variation in node degree to fit real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Huan Qing

A fundamental problem in network analysis is clustering the nodes into groups which share a similar connectivity pattern. Existing algorithms for community detection assume the knowledge of the number of clusters or estimate it a priori…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-30 Junxian Geng , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

Graph clustering and community detection are central problems in modern data mining. The increasing need for analyzing billion-scale data calls for faster and more scalable algorithms for these problems. There are certain trade-offs between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

Heterogeneity characterises real-world networks, where nodes show a broad range of different topological features. However, nodes also tend to organise into communities -- subsets of nodes that are sparsely inter-connected but are densely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-21 Juan Gancio , Nicolás Rubido

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

Based on signaling process on complex networks, a method for identification community structure is proposed. For a network with $n$ nodes, every node is assumed to be a system which can send, receive, and record signals. Each node is taken…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Yanqing Hu , Menghui Li , Peng Zhang , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

The task of community detection, which aims to partition a network into clusters of nodes to summarize its large-scale structure, has spawned the development of many competing algorithms with varying objectives. Some community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Tiago P. Peixoto , Alec Kirkley

It is difficult to detect and evaluate the number of communities in complex networks, especially when the situation involves with an ambiguous boundary between the inner- and inter-community densities. In this paper, Discrete Nodal Domain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Bian He , Lei Gu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Modular structure is ubiquitous in real-world complex networks, and its detection is important because it gives insights in the structure-functionality Modular structure is ubiquitous in real-world complex networks, and its detection is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-05-29 Alex Arenas , Alberto Fernandez , Sergio Gomez

Social relationships can be divided into different classes based on the regularity with which they occur and the similarity among them. Thus, rare and somewhat similar relationships are random and cause noise in a social network, thus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Michele Amaral Brandão , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Alberto H. F. Laender

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

Communities are clusters of nodes with a higher than average density of internal connections. Their detection is of great relevance to better understand the structure and hierarchies present in a network. Modularity has become a standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Lancichinetti , José J. Ramasco

Decision-making processes often involve voting. Human interactions with exogenous entities such as legislations or products can be effectively modeled as two-mode (bipartite) signed networks-where people can either vote positively,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-05 Elena Candellone , Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Sofia Chelmi , Javier Garcia-Bernardo

The stochastic block model is able to generate different network partitions, ranging from traditional assortative communities to disassortative structures. Since the degree-corrected stochastic block model does not specify which mixing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Xiaoyan Lu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

The issue of partitioning a network into communities has attracted a great deal of attention recently. Most authors seem to equate this issue with the one of finding the maximum value of the modularity, as defined by Newman. Since the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Mika Gustafsson , Anna Lombardi , Michael Hornquist