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We propose a model for network community detection using topological data analysis, a branch of modern data science that leverages theory from algebraic topology to statistical analysis and machine learning. Specifically, we use cellular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Arne Wolf , Anthea Monod

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

Massive network datasets are becoming increasingly common in scientific applications. Existing community detection methods encounter significant computational challenges for such massive networks due to two reasons. First, the full network…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Subhankar Bhadra , Marianna Pensky , Srijan Sengupta

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

Collaborative inference in next-generation networks can enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, including autonomous driving, personal identification, and activity classification. This method involves a three-stage process: a)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea Goldsmith , Vincent Poor

Most deep learning models are easily vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Various adversarial attacks are designed to evaluate the robustness of models and develop defense model. Currently, adversarial attacks are brought up to attack their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Jinyin Chen , Mengmeng Su , Shijing Shen , Hui Xiong , Haibin Zheng

Community detection in multilayer networks, which aims to identify groups of nodes exhibiting similar connectivity patterns across multiple network layers, has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Most existing methods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Dapeng Shi , Haoran Zhang , Tiandong Wang , Junhui Wang

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

Model inversion (MI) attacks are aimed at reconstructing training data from model parameters. Such attacks have triggered increasing concerns about privacy, especially given a growing number of online model repositories. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Si Chen , Mostafa Kahla , Ruoxi Jia , Guo-Jun Qi

In dynamic complex networks, entities interact and form network communities that evolve over time. Among the many static Community Detection (CD) solutions, the modularity-based Louvain, or Greedy Modularity Algorithm (GMA), is widely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Giordano Paoletti , Luca Gioacchini , Marco Mellia , Luca Vassio , Jussara M. Almeida

Community detection is a discovery tool used by network scientists to analyze the structure of real-world networks. It seeks to identify natural divisions that may exist in the input networks that partition the vertices into coherent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Neda Zarayeneh , Ananth Kalyanaraman

The adversarial attack methods based on gradient information can adequately find the perturbations, that is, the combinations of rewired links, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the deep learning model based graph embedding algorithms,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jinyin Chen , Yixian Chen , Haibin Zheng , Shijing Shen , Shanqing Yu , Dan Zhang , Qi Xuan

We present a novel method for publishing differentially private synthetic attributed graphs. Unlike preceding approaches, our method is able to preserve the community structure of the original graph without sacrificing the ability to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

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

Targeted community detection aims to distinguish a particular type of community in the network. This is an important task with a lot of real-world applications, e.g., identifying fraud groups in transaction networks. Traditional community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xixi Wu , Kaiyu Xiong , Yun Xiong , Xiaoxin He , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Jiawei Zhang

Many times the nodes of a complex network, whether deliberately or not, are aggregated for technical, ethical, legal limitations or privacy reasons. A common example is the geographic position: one may uncover communities in a network of…

In this paper, we propose a method that extends the persistence-based topological data analysis (TDA) that is typically used for characterizing shapes to general networks. We introduce the concept of the community tree, a tree structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Wei Guo , Ruqian Chen , Yen-Chi Chen , Ashis G. Banerjee

For many networks of scientific interest we know both the connections of the network and information about the network nodes, such as the age or gender of individuals in a social network, geographic location of nodes in the Internet, or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-17 M. E. J. Newman , Aaron Clauset

We present a comprehensive analysis of privacy attacks and countermeasures in data-driven systems. We systematically categorize attacks targeting three domains: anonymous data (linkage and structural attacks), statistical aggregates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Baobao Song , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Mengyue Deng , Qiujun Lan , Robin Doss , Gang Li

Recent advances in synthetic data generation (SDG) have been hailed as a solution to the difficult problem of sharing sensitive data while protecting privacy. SDG aims to learn statistical properties of real data in order to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Andrea Gadotti , Luc Rocher