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Community structure is a key feature omnipresent in real-world network data. Plethora of methods have been proposed to reveal subsets of densely interconnected nodes using criteria such as the modularity index. These approaches have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Alexandre Cionca , Chun Hei Michael Chan , Dimitri Van De Ville

Network models have been widely used to study diverse systems and analyze their dynamic behaviors. Given the structural variability of networks, an intriguing question arises: Can we infer the type of system represented by a network based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gonzalo Travieso , Joao Merenda , Odemir M. Bruno

Persistence modules are a central algebraic object arising in topological data analysis. The notion of interleaving provides a natural way to measure distances between persistence modules. We consider various classes of persistence modules,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Peter Bubenik , Tane Vergili

This paper presents methods to compare high order networks, defined as weighted complete hypergraphs collecting relationship functions between elements of tuples. They can be considered as generalizations of conventional networks where only…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro

Network analysis has emerged as a key technique in communication studies, economics, geography, history and sociology, among others. A fundamental issue is how to identify key nodes, for which purpose a number of centrality measures have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 László Csató

Entropy metrics (for example, permutation entropy) are nonlinear measures of irregularity in time series (one-dimensional data). Some of these entropy metrics can be generalised to data on periodic structures such as a grid or lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 John Stewart Fabila-Carrasco , Chao Tan , Javier Escudero

We propose a new class of metrics on sets, vectors, and functions that can be used in various stages of data mining, including exploratory data analysis, learning, and result interpretation. These new distance functions unify and generalize…

Modularity is a parameter indicating the presence of community structure in the graph. Nowadays it lies at the core of widely used clustering algorithms. We study the modularity of the most classical random graph, binomial $G(n,p)$. In 2020…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Katarzyna Rybarczyk , Małgorzata Sulkowska

Complex networks have attracted increasing interest from various fields of science. It has been demonstrated that each complex network model presents specific topological structures which characterize its connectivity and dynamics. Complex…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-02-20 Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Alexandre Souto Martinez , Odemir Martinez Bruno

The key in agglomerative clustering is to define the affinity measure between two sets. A novel agglomerative clustering method is proposed by utilizing the path integral to define the affinity measure. Firstly, the path integral descriptor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Wei-Ya Ren , Shuo-Hao Li , Qiang Guo , Guo-Hui Li , Jun Zhang

We study $\infty$-modulus on general metric spaces and establish its relation to shortest lengths of paths. This connection was already known for modulus on graphs, but the formulation in metric measure spaces requires more attention to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Nathan Albin , Jared Hoppis , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Nageswari Shanmugalingam

Entropies based on walks on graphs and on their line-graphs are defined. They are based on the summation over diagonal and off-diagonal elements of the thermal Green's function of a graph also known as the communicability. The walk…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Ernesto Estrada , Jose A. de la Pena , Naomichi Hatano

There are good arguments to support the claim that deep neural networks (DNNs) capture better feature representations than the previous hand-crafted feature engineering, which leads to a significant performance improvement. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yao Lu , Wen Yang , Yunzhe Zhang , Zuohui Chen , Jinyin Chen , Qi Xuan , Zhen Wang , Xiaoniu Yang

Traditional measures of closeness and betweenness centrality in networks rely on the shortest paths between nodes. Many standard metrics fail to accurately reflect the physical or probabilistic characteristics of nodal centrality and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Juuso Luhtala , Vesa Kuikka , Kimmo K. Kaski

Despite the fact that many important problems (including clustering) can be described using hypergraphs, theoretical foundations as well as practical algorithms using hypergraphs are not well developed yet. In this paper, we propose a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Bogumil Kaminski , Valerie Poulin , Pawel Pralat , Przemyslaw Szufel , Francois Theberge

Nestedness is a property of interaction networks widely observed in natural mutualistic communities. Despite a widespread interest on this pattern, no general consensus exists on how to measure it. Instead, several metrics aiming at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-04 Claudia Payrato-Borras , Laura Hernandez , Yamir Moreno

Centrality metrics aim to identify the most relevant nodes in a network. In literature, a broad set of metrics exists, either measuring local or global centrality characteristics. Nevertheless, when networks exhibit a high spectral gap, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Costantini , Carla Sciarra , Luca Ridolfi , Francesco Laio

One of the most relevant tasks in network analysis is the detection of community structures, or clustering. Most popular techniques for community detection are based on the maximization of a quality function called modularity, which in turn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Dario Fasino , Francesco Tudisco

In this paper, we propose an evolving network model growing fast in units of module, based on the analysis of the evolution characteristics in real complex networks. Each module is a small-world network containing several interconnected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-10-11 Zou Zhi-Yun , Liu Peng , Lei Li , Gao Jian-Zhi

Robust and comprehensive characterization of the topological properties of complex networks requires the adoption of several respective measurements, among which the node degree has special importance. In the present work, we provide an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-11 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa