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Many real world systems or web services can be represented as a network such as social networks and transportation networks. In the past decade, many algorithms have been developed to detect the communities in a network using connections…

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Training a deep network to perform semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled data. To alleviate the manual effort of annotating real images, researchers have investigated the use of synthetic data, which can be labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez

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

Community detection is key to understand the structure of complex networks. However, the lack of appropriate evaluation strategies for this specific task may produce biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further analyses or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

The study of complex networks has significantly advanced our understanding of community structures which serves as a crucial feature of real-world graphs. Detecting communities in graphs is a challenging problem with applications in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jiakang Li , Songning Lai , Zhihao Shuai , Yuan Tan , Yifan Jia , Mianyang Yu , Zichen Song , Xiaokang Peng , Ziyang Xu , Yongxin Ni , Haifeng Qiu , Jiayu Yang , Yutong Liu , Yonggang Lu

Predicting missing links in complex networks requires algorithms that are able to explore statistical regularities in the existing data. Here we investigate the interplay between algorithm efficiency and network structures through the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Alexey Vlaskin , Eduardo G. Altmann

Conventional network data has largely focused on pairwise interactions between two entities, yet multi-way interactions among multiple entities have been frequently observed in real-life hypergraph networks. In this article, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-06 Yaoming Zhen , Junhui Wang

The selection of features is an essential data preprocessing stage in data mining. The core principle of feature selection seems to be to pick a subset of possible features by excluding features with almost no predictive information as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mehrdad Rostami , Kamal Berahmand , Saman Forouzandeh

Community detection is a commonly used technique for identifying groups in a network based on similarities in connectivity patterns. To facilitate community detection in large networks, we recast the network to be partitioned into a smaller…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Natalie Stanley , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

Community structure detection in complex networks is important since it can help better understand the network topology and how the network works. However, there is still not a clear and widely-accepted definition of community structure,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Kai-Di Sun , Si-Qi Wang

Community detection is a core tool for analyzing large realworld graphs. It is often used to derive additional local features of vertices and edges that will be used to perform a downstream task, yet the impact of community detection on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Community detection in networks is commonly performed using information about interactions between nodes. Recent advances have been made to incorporate multiple types of interactions, thus generalizing standard methods to multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Martina Contisciani , Eleanor Power , Caterina De Bacco

Selecting hyperparameters for unsupervised learning problems is challenging in general due to the lack of ground truth for validation. Despite the prevalence of this issue in statistics and machine learning, especially in clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Xinjie Fan , Yuguang Yue , Purnamrita Sarkar , Y. X. Rachel Wang

Community structure is a critical feature of real networks, providing insights into nodes' internal organization. Nowadays, with the availability of highly detailed temporal networks such as link streams, studying community structures…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yasaman Asgari , Remy Cazabet , Pierre Borgnat

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

Aiming at improving the efficiency and accuracy of community detection in complex networks, we proposed a new algorithm, which is based on the idea that communities could be detected from subnetworks by comparing the internal and external…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-20 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Weibing Deng

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

We present a system for training deep neural networks for object detection using synthetic images. To handle the variability in real-world data, the system relies upon the technique of domain randomization, in which the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jonathan Tremblay , Aayush Prakash , David Acuna , Mark Brophy , Varun Jampani , Cem Anil , Thang To , Eric Cameracci , Shaad Boochoon , Stan Birchfield

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Laurent Brisson , Cécile Bothorel , Nicolas Duminy