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Understanding the structure of weighted signed networks is essential for analysing social systems in which relationships vary both in sign and strength. Despite significant advances in statistical network analysis, there is still a lack of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-06 Alberto Caimo , Isabella Gollini

Alliances and conflicts in social, political and economic relations can be represented by positive and negative edges in signed networks. A cycle is said to be positive if the product of its edge signs is positive, otherwise it is negative.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-13 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Paolo Bartesaghi , Ernesto Estrada

The problem of representing nodes in a signed network as low-dimensional vectors, known as signed network embedding (SNE), has garnered considerable attention in recent years. While several SNE methods based on graph convolutional networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Min-Jeong Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , David Y. Kang , Sang-Wook Kim

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

This paper addresses questions regarding controllability for `generic parameter' dynamical systems, i.e. the question whether a dynamical system is `structurally controllable'. Unlike conventional methods that deal with structural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Madhu N. Belur , Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

Signed networks are such social networks having both positive and negative links. A lot of theories and algorithms have been developed to model such networks (e.g., balance theory). However, previous work mainly focuses on the unipartite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Junjie Huang , Huawei Shen , Qi Cao , Shuchang Tao , Xueqi Cheng

This paper, we explore the dynamics of threshold networks on undirected signed graphs. Much attention has been dedicated to understanding the convergence and long-term behavior of this model. Yet, an open question persists: How does the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Eric Goles , Pedro Montealegre , Martín Ríos-Wilson , Sylvain Sené

In many real-world networks, relationships often go beyond simple dyadic presence or absence; they can be positive, like friendship, alliance, and mutualism, or negative, characterized by enmity, disputes, and competition. To understand the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Xuyang Chen , Yinjie Wang , Weijing Tang

The frustration index is a key measure for analysing signed networks, which has been underused due to its computational complexity. We use an exact optimisation-based method to analyse frustration as a global structural property of signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Samin Aref , Mark C. Wilson

Signed graphs are graphs with signed edges. They are commonly used to represent positive and negative relationships in social networks. While balance theory and clusterizable graphs deal with signed graphs to represent social interactions,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Christopher Thraves

Signed network is a kind of network that associates each edge a positive or negative sign which could express friendly or unfriendly relationship between individuals. When diseases spreading over the signed network, some unfriendly edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-26 Cong Wan , Cong Wang , Yanxia Lv

Signed networks have long been used to represent social relations of amity (+) and enmity (-) between individuals. Group of individuals who are cyclically connected are said to be balanced if the number of negative edges in the cycle is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-19 P. -L. Giscard , P. Rochet , R. C. Wilson

Semi-supervised learning on real-world graphs is frequently challenged by heterophily, where the observed graph is unreliable or label-disassortative. Many existing graph neural networks either rely on a fixed adjacency structure or attempt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Chanran Kim , Yumin Lee , Hawon Shin , Yeowon Jeon , Minjeong Kim , Jiwoo Kang

This chapter discusses the interplay between structure and dynamics in complex networks. Given a particular network with an endowed dynamics, our goal is to find partitions aligned with the dynamical process acting on top of the network. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Renaud Lambiotte , Mauricio Barahona

Nonlinear networked systems are of interest in several areas of research, such as multi-agent systems and social networks. In this paper, we examine the controllability of several classes of nonlinear networked dynamics on which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Siavash Alemzadeh , Mehran Mesbahi

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

This paper aims at addressing distributed averaging problems for signed networks in the presence of general directed topologies that are represented by signed digraphs. A new class of improved Laplacian potential functions is proposed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Mingjun Du , Deyuan Meng , Zheng-Guang Wu

Recent successes in word embedding and document embedding have motivated researchers to explore similar representations for networks and to use such representations for tasks such as edge prediction, node label prediction, and community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Mohammad Raihanul Islam , B. Aditya Prakash , Naren Ramakrishnan

This paper studies the signed networks in the presence of stubborn links, based on the structural balance theory. Each agent in the network has a mixture of positive and negative links represent friendly and antagonistic interactions and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-02 Somaye Sheykhali , Amir Hossein Darooneh , Gholam Reza Jafari

A signed graph is a graph with edges marked positive and negative; it is unbalanced if some cycle has negative sign product. We introduce the concept of vector valued switching function in signed graphs, which extends the concept of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Shahul Hameed K , Albin Mathew , Germina K A , Thomas Zaslavsky