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How can we uncover the natural communities in a real network that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new community detection algorithm, called Attractor, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junming Shao , Zhichao Han , Qinli Yang

Graph models help understand network dynamics and evolution. Creating graphs with controlled topology and embedded partitions is a common strategy for evaluating community detection algorithms. However, existing benchmarks often overlook…

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A wide range of complex systems can be modeled as networks with corresponding constraints on the edges and nodes, which have been extensively studied in recent years. Nowadays, with the progress of information technology, systems that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-24 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

We consider an approach for community detection in time-varying networks. At its core, this approach maintains a small sketch graph to capture the essential community structure found in each snapshot of the full network. We demonstrate how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , George K. Atia

Community detection is the task of discovering groups of nodes sharing similar patterns within a network. With recent advancements in deep learning, methods utilizing graph representation learning and deep clustering have shown great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-14 E. Dmitriev , M. W. Chekol , S. Wang

Surrogate networks can constitute suitable replacements for real networks, in particular to study dynamical processes on networks, when only incomplete or limited datasets are available. As empirical datasets most often present complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-17 Giulia Cencetti , Alain Barrat

Recently, evolving networks are becoming a suitable form to model many real-world complex systems, due to their peculiarities to represent the systems and their constituting entities, the interactions between the entities and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Angelo Impedovo , Corrado Loglisci , Michelangelo Ceci

Detecting communities in networks is essential for understanding the mesoscopic organization of complex systems. Interactions in most real-world networks evolve over time and exhibit diverse modalities: instantaneous events, continuous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Victor Brabant , Angela Bonifati , Remy Cazabet

From many datasets gathered in online social networks, well defined community structures have been observed. A large number of users participate in these networks and the size of the resulting graphs poses computational challenges. There is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Alexander V. Mantzaris

Integrating structural information and metadata, such as gender, social status, or interests, enriches networks and enables a better understanding of the large-scale structure of complex systems. However, existing approaches to metadata…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-16 Aleix Bassolas , Anton Eriksson , Antoine Marot , Martin Rosvall , Vincenzo Nicosia

The power of any kind of network approach lies in the ability to simplify a complex system so that one can better understand its function as a whole. Sometimes it is beneficial, however, to include more information than in a simple graph of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-21 Petter Holme

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden communities from the local perspective, and propose a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Meng Wang , Boyu Li , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

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Contagions such as the spread of popular news stories, or infectious diseases, propagate in cascades over dynamic networks with unobservable topologies. However, "social signals" such as product purchase time, or blog entry timestamps are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-21 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

The topology of social networks can be understood as being inherently dynamic, with edges having a distinct position in time. Most characterizations of dynamic networks discretize time by converting temporal information into a sequence of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-12-03 Aaron Clauset , Nathan Eagle

Community structure is one of the most relevant features encountered in numerous real-world applications of networked systems. Despite the tremendous effort of scientists working on this subject over the past few decades to characterize,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-18 Hocine Cherifi , Gergely Palla , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Xiaoyan Lu

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Piotr Bródka , Tomasz Filipowski , Przemysław Kazienko

Many algorithms have been proposed in the last ten years for the discovery of dynamic communities. However, these methods are seldom compared between themselves. In this article, we propose a generator of dynamic graphs with planted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Remy Cazabet , Souaad Boudebza , Giulio Rossetti

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge