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An approach to improve neural network interpretability is via clusterability, i.e., splitting a model into disjoint clusters that can be studied independently. We define a measure for clusterability and show that pre-trained models form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Satvik Golechha , Maheep Chaudhary , Joan Velja , Alessandro Abate , Nandi Schoots

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

A generalization of modularity, called block modularity, is defined. This is a quality function which evaluates a label assignment against an arbitrary block pattern. Therefore, unlike standard modularity or its variants, arbitrary network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-01 Rudy Arthur

Modularity is designed to measure the strength of division of a network into clusters (known also as communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the vertices within clusters but sparse connections between…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova , Pawel Pralat , Andrei Raigorodskii

We derive the finite size dependence of the clustering coefficient of scale-free random graphs generated by the configuration model with degree distribution exponent $2<\gamma<3$. Degree heterogeneity increases the presence of triangles in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-05 Pol Colomer-de-Simon , Marian Boguna

In the current digital age, the volume of data generated by various cyber activities has become enormous and is constantly increasing. The data may contain valuable insights that can be harnessed to improve cyber security measures. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Noor Saud Abd , Noor Walid Khalid , Basim Hussein Ali

The learned weights of a neural network have often been considered devoid of scrutable internal structure. In this paper, however, we look for structure in the form of clusterability: how well a network can be divided into groups of neurons…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Daniel Filan , Stephen Casper , Shlomi Hod , Cody Wild , Andrew Critch , Stuart Russell

Network controllability robustness reflects how well a networked system can maintain its controllability against destructive attacks. Its measure is quantified by a sequence of values that record the remaining controllability of the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-14 Yang Lou , Yaodong He , Lin Wang , Kim Fung Tsang , Guanrong Chen

We propose efficient algorithms for two key tasks in the analysis of large nonuniform networks: uniform node sampling and cluster detection. Our sampling technique is based on augmenting a simple, but slowly mixing uniform MCMC sampler with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka Orponen , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

Network models have been widely used to study diverse systems and analyze their dynamic behaviors. Given the structural variability of networks, an intriguing question arises: Can we infer the type of system represented by a network based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gonzalo Travieso , Joao Merenda , Odemir M. Bruno

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

A degree-corrected distribution-free model is proposed for weighted social networks with latent structural information. The model extends the previous distribution-free models by considering variation in node degree to fit real-world…

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In this article we propose a novel measure of systemic risk in the context of financial networks. To this aim, we provide a definition of systemic risk which is based on the structure, developed at different levels, of clustered neighbours…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-30 Roy Cerqueti , Gian Paolo Clemente , Rosanna Grassi

Components of complex systems are often classified according to the way they interact with each other. In graph theory such groups are known as clusters or communities. Many different techniques have been recently proposed to detect them,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-30 Muhittin Mungan , Jose J. Ramasco

In this paper, a random clique network model to mimic the large clustering coefficient and the modular structure that exist in many real complex networks, such as social networks, artificial networks, and protein interaction networks, is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-05 Yi-Min Ding , Jun Meng , Jing-Fang Fan , Fang-Fu Ye , Xiao-Song Chen

Graph clustering becomes an important problem due to emerging applications involving the web, social networks and bio-informatics. Recently, many such applications generate data in the form of streams. Clustering massive, dynamic graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Yuchen Zhao , Philip S. Yu

This paper is an extensive survey of literature on complex network communities and clustering. Complex networks describe a widespread variety of systems in nature and society especially systems composed by a large number of highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Biswajit Saha , Amitabha Mandal , Soumendu Bikas Tripathy , Debaprasad Mukherjee

Community detection is a central task in network analysis, with applications in social, biological, and technological systems. Traditional algorithms rely primarily on network topology, which can fail when community signals are partly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-24 Zeyu Hu , Wenrui Li , Jun Yan , Panpan Zhang

We address the problem of local flux redistribution in networked systems. The aim is to detect a suitable cluster which is able to locally adsorb a disturbance by means of an appropriate redistribution of control load among its nodes, such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Andrea Martinelli , John Lygeros

Network data has attracted growing interest across scientific domains, prompting the development of various network models. Existing network analysis methods mainly focus on unsigned networks, whereas signed networks, consisting of both…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yuwen Wang , Shiwen Ye , Jingnan Zhang , Junhui Wang