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Extracting topics from large collections of unstructured text-documents has become a central task in current NLP applications and algorithms like NMF, LDA as well as their generalizations are the well-established current state of the art.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Mattias Luber , Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Benjamin Säfken

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

The growing popularity of online social networks has provided researchers with access to large amount of social network data. This, coupled with the ever increasing computation speed, storage capacity and data mining capabilities, led to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

In Natural Language Processing (NLP) classification tasks such as topic categorisation and sentiment analysis, model generalizability is generally measured with standard metrics such as Accuracy, F-Measure, or AUC-ROC. The diversity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Peter Vickers , Loïc Barrault , Emilio Monti , Nikolaos Aletras

We investigate the possibility of global optimization-based overlapping community detection, using link community framework. We first show that partition density, the original quality function used in link community detection method, is not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-11 Juyong Lee , Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Jooyoung Lee , Bernard R. Brooks , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Across many scientific domains, there is a common need to automatically extract a simplified view or coarse-graining of how a complex system's components interact. This general task is called community detection in networks and is analogous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Leto Peel , Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset

In this paper we introduce a non-fuzzy measure which has been designed to rank the partitions of a network's nodes into overlapping communities. Such a measure can be useful for both quantifying clusters detected by various methods and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Anna Lázár , Dániel Ábel , Tamás Vicsek

In this paper we present a novel strategy to discover the community structure of (possibly, large) networks. This approach is based on the well-know concept of network modularity optimization. To do so, our algorithm exploits a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

Estimating the number of communities is a fundamental problem in network analysis under the stochastic block model (SBM). In this paper, we study penalized estimators for this task based on normalized likelihood criteria. We show that a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Andressa Cerqueira , Felipe Baptistão

Modularity-based algorithms used for community detection have been increasing in recent years. Modularity and its application have been generating controversy since some authors argue it is not a metric without disadvantages. It has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento

In this paper we propose weighted symmetric binary matrix factorization (wSBMF) framework to detect overlapping communities in bipartite networks, which describe relationships between two types of nodes. Our method improves performance by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Yong-Yeol Ahn

The Maximum Mutual Information (MMI) criterion is different from the Least Error Rate (LER) criterion. It can reduce failing to report small probability events. This paper introduces the Channels Matching (CM) algorithm for the MMI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Chenguang Lu

Email service providers have employed many email classification and prioritization systems over the last decade to improve their services. In order to assist email services, we propose a personalized email community detection method to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Waqas Nawaz , Yongkoo Han , Kifayat-Ullah Khan , Young-Koo Lee

Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. In its simplest form, a community structure takes the form of a partition of the node set. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

Communities in social networks or graphs are sets of well-connected, overlapping vertices. The effectiveness of a community detection algorithm is determined by accuracy in finding the ground-truth communities and ability to scale with the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-24 Dhruv Parthasarathy , Devavrat Shah , Tauhid Zaman

Many networks of interest in the sciences, including a variety of social and biological networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or modules. The problem of detecting and characterizing this community structure has attracted…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Many complex systems can be represented as networks and separating a network into communities could simplify the functional analysis considerably. Recently, many approaches have been proposed for finding communities, but none of them can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Yanqing Hu , Yuchao Nie , Hua Yang , Jie Cheng , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

The integration of network information and node attribute information has recently gained significant attention in the community detection literature. In this work, we consider community detection in the Contextual Labeled Stochastic Block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Dian Jin , Yuqian Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang

Evaluating clustering quality with reliable evaluation metrics like normalized mutual information (NMI) requires labeled data that can be expensive to annotate. We focus on the underexplored problem of estimating clustering quality with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Nihal V. Nayak , Ethan R. Elenberg , Clemens Rosenbaum

We propose a novel approach to the problem of mutual information (MI) estimation via introducing a family of estimators based on normalizing flows. The estimator maps original data to the target distribution, for which MI is easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Tolmachev , Sofia Malanchuk , Anna Neopryatnaya , Alexey Frolov
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