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In signed networks, some existing community detection methods treat negative connections as intercommunity links and positive ones as intracommunity links. However, it is important to recognize that negative links on real-world networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-17 Peng Zhang , Xianyu Xu , Leyang Xue

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Community detection methods can be used to explore the structure of complex systems. The well-known modular configurations in complex financial systems indicate the existence of community structures. Here we analyze the community properties…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-28 Longfeng Zhao , Chao Wang , Gang-Jin Wang , H. Eugene Stanley , Lin Chen

Community structure identification has been an important research topic in complex networks and there has been many algorithms proposed so far to detect community structures in complex networks, where most of the algorithms are not suitable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-04 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk Bingol

One key challenge in Social Network Analysis is to design an efficient and accurate community detection procedure as a means to discover intrinsic structures and extract relevant information. In this paper, we introduce a novel strategy…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Mohamed-Hamza Ibrahim , Rokia Missaoui , Abir Messaoudi

Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for complex networks, which can simplify their functional analysis considerably. Recently, many approaches were proposed to community structure detection, but few works were focused on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-11 Yanqing Hu , Yiming Ding , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

Recognizing number of communities and detecting community structures of complex network are discussed in this paper. As a visual and feasible algorithm, block model has been successfully applied to detect community structures in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-20 Hongjue Wang , Tao Wang

We develop an algorithm to detect community structure in complex networks. The algorithm is based on spectral methods and takes into account weights and links orientations. Since the method detects efficiently clustered nodes in large…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Capocci , Vito D. P. Servedio , Guido Caldarelli , Francesca Colaiori

The study of the sub-structure of complex networks is of major importance to relate topology and functionality. Many efforts have been devoted to the analysis of the modular structure of networks using the quality function known as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-07-01 Belkacem Serrour , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gomez

Community detection is a fundamental task in data analysis, and block models provide an approach for identifying a wide variety of community structures while offering high interpretability. The degree-corrected block model (DCBM) is an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandra Dache , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

Research data sets are growing to unprecedented sizes and network modeling is commonly used to extract complex relationships in diverse domains, such as genetic interactions involved in disease, logistics, and social communities. As the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Sharlee Climer , Kenneth Smith , Wei Yang , Lisa de las Fuentes , Victor G. Dávila-Román , C. Charles Gu

Community structure detection in complex networks is important since it can help better understand the network topology and how the network works. However, there is still not a clear and widely-accepted definition of community structure,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Kai-Di Sun , Si-Qi Wang

Community detection and hierarchy extraction are usually thought of as separate inference tasks on networks. Considering only one of the two when studying real-world data can be an oversimplification. In this work, we present a generative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Laura Iacovissi , Caterina De Bacco

The characterization of network community structure has profound implications in several scientific areas. Therefore, testing the algorithms developed to establish the optimal division of a network into communities is a fundamental problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-02 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

Complex systems are usually illustrated by networks which captures the topology of the interactions between the entities. To better understand the roles played by the entities in the system one needs to uncover the underlying community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

We consider the problem of finding communities or modules in directed networks. The most common approach to this problem in the previous literature has been simply to ignore edge direction and apply methods developed for community discovery…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-03-22 E. A. Leicht , M. E. J. Newman

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