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This letter addresses the problem of estimating block sparse signal with unknown group partitions in a multiple measurement vector (MMV) setup. We propose a Bayesian framework by applying an adaptive total variation (TV) penalty on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Hamza Djelouat , Reijo Leinonen , Mikko J. Sillanpää , Bhaskar D. Rao , Markku Juntti

A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Dynamic networks are a general language for describing time-evolving complex systems, and discrete time network models provide an emerging statistical technique for various applications. It is a fundamental research question to detect the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-21 Kevin H. Lee , Lingzhou Xue , David R. Hunter

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

Identifying subgroups of respondents in psychometric data is traditionally addressed with Latent Class Analysis, which requires the number of classes to be specified a priori and can perform poorly when strong inter-item correlations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-29 Arianna Armanetti , Luca Cecchetti , Eiko Fried , Diego Garlaschelli , Miguel Ibáñez-Berganza

Community structure is a key feature omnipresent in real-world network data. Plethora of methods have been proposed to reveal subsets of densely interconnected nodes using criteria such as the modularity index. These approaches have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Alexandre Cionca , Chun Hei Michael Chan , Dimitri Van De Ville

Modularity introduced by Newman and Girvan [Phys. Rev. E 69, 026113 (2004)] is a quality function for community detection. Numerous methods for modularity maximization have been developed so far. In 2007, Barber [Phys. Rev. E 76, 066102…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Atsushi Miyauchi , Noriyoshi Sukegawa

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

Community detection algorithms are in general evaluated by comparing evaluation metric values for the communities obtained with different algorithms. The evaluation metrics that are used for measuring quality of the communities incorporate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Soumita Das , Anupam Biswas

Complex systems are usually illustrated by networks which captures the topology of the interactions between the entities. To better understand the roles played by the entities in the system one needs to uncover the underlying community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

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

Local network community detection aims to find a single community in a large network, while inspecting only a small part of that network around a given seed node. This is much cheaper than finding all communities in a network. Most methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Twan van Laarhoven

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

Among community detection methods, spectral clustering enjoys two desirable properties: computational efficiency and theoretical guarantees of consistency. Most studies of spectral clustering consider only the edges of a network as input to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-18 Jonathan Hehir , Xiaoyue Niu , Aleksandra Slavkovic

We study community detection in the \emph{symmetric $k$-stochastic block model}, where $n$ nodes are evenly partitioned into $k$ clusters with intra- and inter-cluster connection probabilities $p$ and $q$, respectively. Our main result is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-21 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Kasper Lindberg , David Steurer , Aleksandr Storozhenko

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

Community detection in graphs has been the subject of many algorithms. Recent methods want to optimize a modularity function which shows a maximum of relationships within communities and found a minimum of inter-community relations. these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-11 Michel Crampes , Michel Plantié , Marie Lopez

Multiscale community detection can be viewed from a dynamical perspective within the Markov Stability framework, which uses the diffusion of a Markov process on the graph to uncover intrinsic network substructures across all scales. Here we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Zijing Liu , Mauricio Barahona

The analysis of temporal networks has a wide area of applications in a world of technological advances. An important aspect of temporal network analysis is the discovery of community structures. Real data networks are often very large and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-31 Zhana Kuncheva , Giovanni Montana

Given a graph of interactions, a module (also called a community or cluster) is a subset of nodes whose fitness is a function of the statistical significance of the pairwise interactions of nodes in the module. The topic of this paper is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Bhaskar DasGupta , Devendra Desai