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Characterizing the community structure of complex networks is a key challenge in many scientific fields. Very diverse algorithms and methods have been proposed to this end, many working reasonably well in specific situations. However, no…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

Networks are commonly used to model complex systems. The different entities in the system are represented by nodes of the network and their interactions by edges. In most real life systems, the different entities may interact in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

We introduce a class of random graphs with a community structure, which we call the hierarchical configuration model. On the inter-community level, the graph is a configuration model, and on the intra-community level, every vertex in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Remco van der Hofstad , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Clara Stegehuis

One property of networks that has received comparatively little attention is hierarchy, i.e., the property of having vertices that cluster together in groups, which then join to form groups of groups, and so forth, up through all levels of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-12 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Anomaly detection algorithms are a valuable tool in network science for identifying unusual patterns in a network. These algorithms have numerous practical applications, including detecting fraud, identifying network security threats, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Hadiseh Safdari , Martina Contisciani , Caterina De Bacco

In this work, for the given adjacency matrix of a graph, we present an algorithm which checks the connectivity of a graph and computes all of its connected components. Also, it is mathematically proved that the algorithm presents all the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Krishnendra Shekhawat

A concept of higher order neighborhood in complex networks, introduced previously (PRE \textbf{73}, 046101, (2006)), is systematically explored to investigate larger scale structures in complex networks. The basic idea is to consider each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Roberto F. S. Andrade , José G. V. Miranda , Suani T. R. Pinho , Thierry Petit Lobão

We review and improve a recently introduced method for the detection of communities in complex networks. This method combines spectral properties of some matrices encoding the network topology, with well known hierarchical clustering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Donetti , M. A. Munoz

We propose a new model to detect the overlapping communities of a network that is based on cooperative games and mathematical programming. More specifically, communities are defined as stable coalitions of a weighted graph community game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Stefano Benati , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía , Francisco Temprano

The community plays a crucial role in understanding user behavior and network characteristics in social networks. Some users can use multiple social networks at once for a variety of objectives. These users are called overlapping users who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ziqing Zhu , Guan Yuan , Tao Zhou , Jiuxin Cao

Community detection in networks is one of the most popular topics of modern network science. Communities, or clusters, are usually groups of vertices having higher probability of being connected to each other than to members of other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-04 Santo Fortunato , Darko Hric

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

Community structure describes the organization of a network into subgraphs that contain a prevalence of edges within each subgraph and relatively few edges across boundaries between subgraphs. The development of community-detection methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-08 Saray Shai , Natalie Stanley , Clara Granell , Dane Taylor , Peter J. Mucha

Following the success of deep convolutional networks in various vision and speech related tasks, researchers have started investigating generalizations of the well-known technique for graph-structured data. A recently-proposed method called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 John Boaz Lee , Ryan A. Rossi , Xiangnan Kong , Sungchul Kim , Eunyee Koh , Anup Rao

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Community detection is of great importance for understand-ing graph structure in social networks. The communities in real-world networks are often overlapped, i.e. some nodes may be a member of multiple clusters. How to uncover the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan

We study the fundamental limits on learning latent community structure in dynamic networks. Specifically, we study dynamic stochastic block models where nodes change their community membership over time, but where edges are generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-20 Amir Ghasemian , Pan Zhang , Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , Leto Peel

Detecting communities, densely connected groups may contribute to unravel the underlying relationships among the units present in diverse biological networks (e.g., interactome, coexpression networks, ecological networks, etc.). We recently…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-11 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín