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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

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

We consider network structures that optimize the $\mathcal{H}_2$ norm of weighted, time scaled consensus networks, under a minimal representation of such consensus networks described by the edge Laplacian. We show that a greedy algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Dillon R. Foight , Daniel Calderone , Mehran Mesbahi , Roy S. Smith

Signed Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) have recently gained attention as an effective tool for several learning tasks on signed networks, i.e., graphs where edges have an associated polarity. One of these tasks is to predict the polarity of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Marco Minici , Federico Cinus , Francesco Bonchi , Giuseppe Manco

Signed graphs are equipped with both positive and negative edge weights, encoding pairwise correlations as well as anti-correlations in data. A balanced signed graph has no cycles of odd number of negative edges. Laplacian of a balanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Haruki Yokota , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka , Gene Cheung

The graph-theoretical task of determining most likely inter-community edges based on disconnected subgraphs' intra-community connectivity is proposed. An algorithm is developed for this edge augmentation task, based on elevating the zero…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tianyi Li

On signed social networks, balanced and unbalanced triangles are a critical motif due to their role as the foundations of Structural Balance Theory. The uses for these motifs have been extensively explored in networks with known edge signs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Alexander Zhou , Haoyang Li , Anxin Tian , Zhiyuan Li , Yue Wang

In complex networks, especially social networks, networks could be divided into disjoint partitions that the ratio between the number of internal edges (the edges between the vertices within same partition) to the number of outer edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Hamid Shahrivari Joghan , Alireza Bagheri , Meysam Azad

This paper introduces a unified computational framework for the anonymization problem in social networks, where the objective is to maximize node anonymity through graph alterations. We define three variants of the underlying optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

Signed graphs, which are characterized by both positive and negative edge weights, have recently attracted significant attention in the field of graph signal processing (GSP). Existing works on signed graph learning typically assume that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Rong Ye , Xue-Qin Jiang , Hui Feng , Jian Wang , Runhe Qiu

Network embedding has attracted an increasing attention over the past few years. As an effective approach to solve graph mining problems, network embedding aims to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xiao Shen , Fu-Lai Chung

Structural balance theory studies stability in networks. Given a $n$-vertex complete graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges are labeled positive or negative, the graph is considered \emph{balanced} if every triangle either consists of three positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Sepehr Assadi , Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Chen Wang

According to the so-called strong version of structural balance theory, actors in signed social networks avoid establishing triads with an odd number of negative links. Generalising, the weak version of balance theory allows for nodes to be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-23 Anna Gallo , Diego Garlaschelli , Tiziano Squartini

Social networks and interactions in social media involve both positive and negative relationships. Signed graphs capture both types of relationships: positive edges correspond to pairs of "friends", and negative edges to pairs of "foes".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Michael Mitzenmacher , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Signed graphs are well-suited for modeling social networks as they capture both positive and negative relationships. Signed graph neural networks (SGNNs) are commonly employed to predict link signs (i.e., positive and negative) in such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jialong Zhou , Yuni Lai , Jian Ren , Kai Zhou

Social networks inherently exhibit complex relationships that can be positive or negative, as well as directional. Understanding balance in these networks is crucial for unraveling social dynamics, yet traditional theories struggle to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-11 Bingjie Hao , Elijah Platnick , István A. Kovács

Structural balance theory predicts that triads in networks gravitate towards stable configurations. The theory has been verified for undirected graphs. Since real-world networks are often directed, we introduce a novel method for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rezvaneh Rezapour , Ly Dinh , Lan Jiang , Jana Diesner

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

Graph partition is a key component to achieve workload balance and reduce job completion time in parallel graph processing systems. Among the various partition strategies, edge partition has demonstrated more promising performance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Zhenyu Guo , Mingyu Xiao , Yi Zhou , Dongxiang Zhang , Kian-Lee Tan

Signed graphs are an emergent way of representing data in a variety of contexts where antagonistic interactions exist. These include data from biological, ecological, and social systems. Here we propose the concept of communicability for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Ernesto Estrada