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The quest for a quantitative characterization of community and modular structure of complex networks produced a variety of methods and algorithms to classify different networks. However, it is not clear if such methods provide consistent,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-08 Juan Ignacio Perotti , Claudio Juan Tessone , Guido Caldarelli

Feature selection is one of the most important problems in hyperspectral images classification. It consists to choose the most informative bands from the entire set of input datasets and discard the noisy, redundant and irrelevant ones. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hasna Nhaila , Asma Elmaizi , Elkebir Sarhrouni , Ahmed Hammouch

Community detection is an important research topic in complex networks. We present the employment of a genetic algorithm to detect communities in complex networks which is based on optimizing network modularity. It does not need any prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-06 Mursel Tasgin , Amac Herdagdelen , Haluk Bingol

Relational data augmentation is a powerful technique for enhancing data analytics and improving machine learning models by incorporating columns from external datasets. However, it is challenging to efficiently discover relevant external…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Aécio Santos , Flip Korn , Juliana Freire

In numerous networks, it is vital to identify communities consisting of closely joined groups of individuals. Such communities often reveal the role of the networks or primary properties of the individuals. In this perspective, Newman and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ghazal Ghajari , Hooshang Jazayeri-Rad , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfooli

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network into groups. Existing inferential methods for community structure mainly focus on unweighted (binary) networks. Many real-world networks are nonetheless weighted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Mingao Yuan , Zuofeng Shang

We survey the application of a relatively new branch of statistical physics--"community detection"-- to data mining. In particular, we focus on the diagnosis of materials and automated image segmentation. Community detection describes the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Z. Nussinov , P. Ronhovde , Dandan Hu , S. Chakrabarty , M. Sahu , Bo Sun , N. A. Mauro , K. K. Sahu

Community structure represents the local organization of complex networks and the single most important feature to extract functional relationships between nodes. In the last years, the problem of community detection has been reformulated…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Santo Fortunato

Discovering communities in complex networks means grouping nodes similar to each other, to uncover latent information about them. There are hundreds of different algorithms to solve the community detection task, each with its own…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Michele Coscia

Community detection is one of the most important problems in network analysis. Among many algorithms proposed for this task, methods based on statistical inference are of particular interest: they are mathematically sound and were shown to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov

Modularity, since its introduction, has remained one of the most widely used metrics to assess the quality of community structure in a complex network. However the resolution limit problem associated with modularity limits its applicability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-13 Tianlong Chen , Pramesh Singh , Kevin E. Bassler

Network community detection is usually considered as an unsupervised learning problem. Given a network, the aim is to partition it using some general purpose algorithm. In this paper we instead treat community detection as a hypothesis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rudy Arthur

Social relationships can be divided into different classes based on the regularity with which they occur and the similarity among them. Thus, rare and somewhat similar relationships are random and cause noise in a social network, thus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Michele Amaral Brandão , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Alberto H. F. Laender

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

The problem and implications of community detection in networks have raised a huge attention, for its important applications in both natural and social sciences. A number of algorithms has been developed to solve this problem, addressing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Cristian Bisconti , Angelo Corallo , Laura Fortunato , Antonio A. Gentile

Graphs representing real world systems may be studied from their underlying community structure. A community in a network is an intuitive idea for which there is no consensus on its objective mathematical definition. The most used metric in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Daniel Gamermann , José Antônio Pellizaro

Community detection can be considered as a variant of cluster analysis applied to complex networks. For this reason, all existing studies have been using tools derived from this field when evaluating community detection algorithms. However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Vincent Labatut

Estimating Mutual Information (MI), a key measure of dependence of random quantities without specific modelling assumptions, is a challenging problem in high dimensions. We propose a novel mutual information estimator based on parametrizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Haoran Ni , Martin Lotz

Community detection is a key task to further understand the function and the structure of complex networks. Therefore, a strategy used to assess this task must be able to avoid biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

Estimating mutual information between continuous random variables is often intractable and extremely challenging for high-dimensional data. Recent progress has leveraged neural networks to optimize variational lower bounds on mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ruizhi Liao , Daniel Moyer , Polina Golland , William M. Wells