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We introduce several novel and computationally efficient methods for detecting "core--periphery structure" in networks. Core--periphery structure is a type of mesoscale structure that includes densely-connected core vertices and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Mihai Cucuringu , Puck Rombach , Sang Hoon Lee , Mason A. Porter

Recent researches have discovered that rich interactions among entities in nature and society bring about complex networks with community structures. Although the investigation of the community structures has promoted the development of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-24 Nan Du , Bin Wu , Bai Wang , Yi Wang

We study core-periphery structure in networks using inference methods based on a flexible network model that allows for traditional onion-like cores within cores, but also for hierarchical tree-like structures and more general non-nested…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Austin Polanco , M. E. J. Newman

Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

We propose a novel measure to assess the presence of meso-scale structures in complex networks. This measure is based on the identification of regular patterns in the adjacency matrix of the network, and on the calculation of the quantity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Massimiliano Zanin , Pedro A. Sousa , Ernestina Menasalvas

The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yudong Sun , Bogdan Danila , Kresimir Josic , Kevin E. Bassler

Meso-scale structures (communities) are used to understand the macro-scale properties of complex networks, such as their functionality and formation mechanisms. Micro-scale structures are known to exist in most complex networks (e.g., large…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-28 Sophie Wharrie , Lamiae Azizi , Eduardo G. Altmann

Communities in networks are commonly considered as highly cohesive subgraphs which are well separated from the rest of the network. However, cohesion and separation often cannot be maximized at the same time, which is why a compromise is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Frank Havemann , Jochen Gläser , Michael Heinz

Core-periphery structure is a common property of complex networks, which is a composition of tightly connected groups of core vertices and sparsely connected periphery vertices. This structure frequently emerges in traffic systems, biology,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Junteng Jia , Austin R. Benson

Core-periphery structure is an essential mesoscale feature in complex networks. Previous researches mostly focus on discriminative approaches while in this work, we propose a generative model called masked Bayesian non-negative matrix…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhonghao Wang , Ru Yuan , Jiaye Fu , Ka-Chun Wong , Chengbin Peng

We use the information present in a bipartite network to detect cores of communities of each set of the bipartite system. Cores of communities are found by investigating statistically validated projected networks obtained using information…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-30 Christian Bongiorno , András London , Salvatore Miccichè , Rosario N. Mantegna

Common experience suggests that many networks might possess community structure - division of vertices into groups, with a higher density of edges within groups than between them. Here we describe a new computer algorithm that detects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman , M. Girvan

Uncovering structural properties of ecological networks is a crucial starting point of studying the system's stability in response to various types of perturbations. We analyze pollination and seed disposal networks, which are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-16 Sang Hoon Lee

Community detection is a well established method for studying the meso scale structure of social networks. Applying a community detection algorithm results in a division of a network into communities that is often used to inspect and reason…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Dafne E. van Kuppevelt , Rena Bakhshi , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Frank W. Takes

Bipartite networks appear in many real-world contexts, linking entities across two distinct sets. They are often analyzed via one-mode projections, but such projections can introduce artificial correlations and inflated clustering,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-12 Robert Jankowski , Roya Aliakbarisani , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

How to determine the community structure of complex networks is an open question. It is critical to establish the best strategies for community detection in networks of unknown structure. Here, using standard synthetic benchmarks, we show…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Communities are ubiquitous in nature and society. Individuals that share common properties often self-organize to form communities. Avoiding the shortages of computation complexity, pre-given information and unstable results in different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-04 YunFeng Chang , SeungKee Han , XiDong Wang

Mesoscale structures are an integral part of the abstraction and analysis of complex systems. They reveal a node's function in the network, and facilitate our understanding of the network dynamics. For example, they can represent…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-27 Luka V. Petrović , Vincenzo Perri

Here we propose a new method to compare the modular structure of a pair of node-aligned networks. The majority of current methods, such as normalized mutual information, compare two node partitions derived from a community detection…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-14 Daniel Straulino , Mattie Landman , Neave O'Clery