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We present a network community-detection technique based on properties that emerge from a nature-inspired system of aligning particles. Initially, each vertex is assigned a random-direction unit vector. A nonlinear dynamic law is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Filipe Alves Neto Verri , Roberto Alves Gueleri , Qiusheng Zheng , Junbao Zhang , Liang Zhao

In this paper, we consider the problem of inferring the sign of a link based on limited sign data in signed networks. Regarding this link sign prediction problem, SDGNN (Signed Directed Graph Neural Networks) provides the best prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhihong Fang , Shaolin Tan , Yaonan Wang

We consider two new problems regarding the impact of edge addition or removal on the modularity of partitions (or community structures) in a network. The first problem seeks to add edges to enforce that a desired partition is the partition…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Daniel Kosmas , John E. Mitchell , Thomas C. Sharkey , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

From the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the 2021 Capitol riots to the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19, many have blamed social media for today's deeply divided society. Recent advances in machine learning for signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Zexi Huang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

The Maximum Balanced Subgraph Problem (MBSP) is the problem of finding a subgraph of a signed graph that is balanced and maximizes the cardinality of its vertex set. We are interested in the exact solution of the problem: an improved…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Rosa Figueiredo , Yuri Frota

Bipartite networks provide a major insight into the organisation of many real-world systems. One of the most relevant issues encountered when modelling a bipartite network is that of facing the information shortage concerning intra-layer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-11 Anna Gallo , Fabio Saracco , Tiziano Squartini

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem in signed networks, where there are two types of edges: positive edges (friends) and negative edges (enemies). One renowned theorem of signed networks, known as Harary's theorem,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Cheng-Shang Chang , Duan-Shin Lee , Li-Heng Liou , Sheng-Min Lu

A signed graph is a graph where each edge receives a sign, positive or negative. The signed graph model has been used in many real applications, such as protein complex discovery and social network analysis. Finding cohesive subgraphs in…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Lantian Xu , Rong-Hua Li , Dong Wen , Qiangqiang Dai , Guoren Wang , Lu Qin

Signed networks contain both positive and negative kinds of interactions like friendship and enmity. The task of node classification in non-signed graphs has proven to be beneficial in many real world applications, yet extensions to signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Pedro Mercado , Jessica Bosch , Martin Stoll

Structural balance modeling for signed graph networks presents how to model the sources of conflicts. The state-of-the-art focuses on computing the frustration index of a signed graph, a critical step toward solving problems in social and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Muhieddine Shebaro , Jelena Tešić

Structural balance theory is an established framework for studying social relationships of friendship and enmity. These relationships are modeled by a signed network whose energy potential measures the level of imbalance, while stochastic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Jakub Svoboda , Ðorđe Žikelić , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Josef Tkadlec

The operation of adding edges has been frequently used to the study of opinion dynamics in social networks for various purposes. In this paper, we consider the edge addition problem for the DeGroot model of opinion dynamics in a social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xiaotian Zhou , Zhongzhi Zhang

Link prediction is one of the fundamental research problems in network analysis. Intuitively, it involves identifying the edges that are most likely to be added to a given network, or the edges that appear to be missing from the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Marcin Waniek , Kai Zhou , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Esteban Moro , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan

Signed network embedding is an approach to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes in signed networks with both positive and negative links, which facilitates downstream tasks such as link prediction with general data mining…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Dengcheng Yan , Youwen Zhang , Wei Li , Yiwen Zhang

Edges in real-world graphs are typically formed by a variety of factors and carry diverse relation semantics. For example, connections in a social network could indicate friendship, being colleagues, or living in the same neighborhood.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Tianxiang Zhao , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

An edge-colored graph is said to be balanced if it has an equal number of edges of each color. Given a graph $G$ whose edges are colored using two colors and a positive integer $k$, the objective in the Edge Balanced Connected Subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-03 P. S. Ardra , R. Krithika , Saket Saurabh , Roohani Sharma

Uncovering anomalies in attributed networks has recently gained popularity due to its importance in unveiling outliers and flagging adversarial behavior in a gamut of data and network science applications including {the Internet of Things…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Costas Mavromatis , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Most studies of disease spreading consider the underlying social network as obtained without the contagion, though epidemic influences people's willingness to contact others: A "friendly" contact may be turned to "unfriendly" to avoid…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-10 M. Saeedian , N. Azimi-Tafreshi , G. R. Jafari , J. Kertesz

We present an analysis of the transductive node classification problem, where the underlying graph consists of communities that agree with the node labels and node features. For node classification, we propose a novel optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Firooz Shahriari-Mehr , Javad Aliakbari , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Ashkan Panahi

Signed graphs serve as fundamental data structures for representing positive and negative relationships in social networks, with signed graph neural networks (SGNNs) emerging as the primary tool for their analysis. Our investigation reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jialong Zhou , Xing Ai , Yuni Lai , Tomasz Michalak , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Di Tang , Xingxing Zhang , Mengpei Yang , Kai Zhou