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The paper presents an efficient method for simulating the tails of a target variable Z=h(X) which depends on a set of basic variables X=(X_1, ..., X_n). To this aim, variables X_i, i=1, ..., n are sequentially simulated in such a manner…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Enrique F. Castillo , Cristina Solares , Patricia Gomez

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

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Analysis of networks and in particular discovering communities within networks has been a focus of recent work in several fields, with applications ranging from citation and friendship networks to food webs and gene regulatory networks.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-19 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Despite the successes of probabilistic models based on passing noise through neural networks, recent work has identified that such methods often fail to capture tail behavior accurately, unless the tails of the base distribution are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-16 Feynman Liang , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

This paper focuses on two fundamental tasks of graph analysis: community detection and node representation learning, which capture the global and local structures of graphs, respectively. In the current literature, these two tasks are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Fan-Yun Sun , Meng Qu , Jordan Hoffmann , Chin-Wei Huang , Jian Tang

This master's thesis work has the objective of performing an analysis of the methods for detecting communities in networks. As an initial part, I study of the main features of graph theory and communities, as well as common measures in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Julio Omar Palacio Niño

Random graph models with community structure have been studied extensively in the literature. For both the problems of detecting and recovering community structure, an interesting landscape of statistical and computational phase transitions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Cynthia Rush , Fiona Skerman , Alexander S. Wein , Dana Yang

Nodes in real-world networks are usually organized in local modules. These groups, called communities, are intuitively defined as sub-graphs with a larger density of internal connections than of external links. In this work, we introduce a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-21 Andrea Lancichinetti , Filippo Radicchi , Jose J. Ramasco

Groups of people or even robots often face problems they need to solve together. Examples include collectively searching for resources, choosing when and where to invest time and effort, and many more. Although a hierarchical ordering of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-07 Anna Zafeiris , Tamas Vicsek

There are fundamental differences between citation networks and other classes of graphs. In particular, given that citation networks are directed and acyclic, methods developed primarily for use with undirected social network data may face…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-08-17 Michael James Bommarito , Daniel Martin Katz , Jon Zelner

Community search has been extensively studied in the past decades. In recent years, there is a growing interest in attributed community search that aims to identify a community based on both the query nodes and query attributes. A set of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jianwei Wang , Kai Wang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

Understanding the shape of a distribution of data is of interest to people in a great variety of fields, as it may affect the types of algorithms used for that data. We study one such problem in the framework of distribution property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Amartya Shankha Biswas , Kavya Ravichandran , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

Social network analysis is leveraged in a variety of applications such as identifying influential entities, detecting communities with special interests, and determining the flow of information and innovations. However, existing approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Stefan Siersdorfer , Philipp Kemkes , Hanno Ackermann , Sergej Zerr

Ensemble learning is a popular technique to improve the accuracy of machine learning models. It traditionally hinges on the rationale that aggregating multiple weak models can lead to better models with lower variance and hence higher…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Huajie Qian , Donghao Ying , Henry Lam , Wotao Yin

We propose a model for network community detection using topological data analysis, a branch of modern data science that leverages theory from algebraic topology to statistical analysis and machine learning. Specifically, we use cellular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Arne Wolf , Anthea Monod

This paper shows how information about the network's community structure can be used to define node features with high predictive power for classification tasks. To do so, we define a family of community-aware node features and investigate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge , Sebastian Zając

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

Graphs may be used to represent many different problem domains -- a concrete example is that of detecting communities in social networks, which are represented as graphs. With big data and more sophisticated applications becoming widespread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Miguel E. Coimbra , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luis Veiga