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A layered neural network is now one of the most common choices for the prediction of high-dimensional practical data sets, where the relationship between input and output data is complex and cannot be represented well by simple conventional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-16 Chihiro Watanabe , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

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

Modularity based community detection encompasses a number of widely used, efficient heuristics for identification of structure in networks. Recently, a belief propagation approach to modularity optimization provided a useful guide for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-22 William H. Weir , Benjamin Walker , Lenka Zdeborová , Peter J. Mucha

Identifying community structure in networks is an issue of particular interest in network science. The modularity introduced by Newman and Girvan [Phys. Rev. E 69, 026113 (2004)] is the most popular quality function for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Atsushi Miyauchi , Yasushi Kawase

Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Community structure is one of the most important features of complex networks. Modularity-based methods for community detection typically rely on heuristic algorithms to optimize a specific community quality function. Such methods are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-02 Kun Gao , Xuezao Ren , Lei Zhou , Junfang Zhu

The study of the sub-structure of complex networks is of major importance to relate topology and functionality. Many efforts have been devoted to the analysis of the modular structure of networks using the quality function known as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-07-01 Belkacem Serrour , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gomez

A basic question in network community detection is how modular a given network is. This is usually addressed by evaluating the quality of partitions detected in the network. The Girvan-Newman (GN) modularity function is the standard way to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-25 Filipi N. Silva , Aiiad Albeshri , Vijey Thayananthan , Wadee Alhalabi , Santo Fortunato

It has been hypothesized that some form of "modular" structure in artificial neural networks should be useful for learning, compositionality, and generalization. However, defining and quantifying modularity remains an open problem. We cast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Richard D. Lange , David S. Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording

We introduce a metric space of clusterings, where clusterings are described by a binary vector indexed by the vertex-pairs. We extend this geometry to a hypersphere and prove that maximizing modularity is equivalent to minimizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Martijn Gösgens , Remco van der Hofstad , Nelly Litvak

In the analysis of complex networks, centrality measures and community structures play pivotal roles. For multilayer networks, a critical challenge lies in effectively integrating information across diverse layers while accounting for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-28 Zhuoye Han , Tiandong Wang , Zhiliang Ying

The modular structure of brain networks supports specialized information processing, complex dynamics, and cost-efficient spatial embedding. Inter-individual variation in modular structure has been linked to differences in performance,…

Network representations have been effectively employed to analyze complex systems across various areas and applications, leading to the development of network science as a core tool to study systems with multiple components and complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-25 ItaloIvo Lima Dias Pinto , Javier Omar Garcia , Kanika Bansal

Networks are a convenient way to represent complex systems of interacting entities. Many networks contain "communities" of nodes that are more densely connected to each other than to nodes in the rest of the network. In this paper, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-27 Marya Bazzi , Mason A. Porter , Stacy Williams , Mark McDonald , Daniel J. Fenn , Sam D. Howison

Modularity is a general principle present in many fields. It offers attractive advantages, including, among others, ease of conceptualization, interpretability, scalability, module combinability, and module reusability. The deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Haozhe Sun , Isabelle Guyon

Community detection in multi-layer networks has emerged as a crucial area of modern network analysis. However, conventional approaches often assume that nodes belong exclusively to a single community, which fails to capture the complex…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Huan Qing

In many networks, it is of great interest to identify "communities", unusually densely knit groups of individuals. Such communities often shed light on the function of the networks or underlying properties of the individuals. Recently,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Gaurav Agarwal , David Kempe

The problem of node-centric, or local, community detection in information networks refers to the identification of a community for a given input node, having limited information about the network topology. Existing methods for solving this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli , Dino Ienco , Arnaud Sallaberry , Pascal Poncelet

When analyzing complex networks a key target is to uncover their modular structure, which means searching for a family of modules, namely node subsets spanning each a subnetwork more densely connected than the average. This work proposes a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Giovanni Rossi

This paper investigates community detection by modularity maximisation on bipartite networks. In particular we are interested in how the operation of projection, using one node set of the bipartite network to infer connections between nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Rudy Arthur