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The topological information of a network can be retrieved equivalently from its complement consisting of the same nodes but complementary edges. Hence the partition of a network into certain substructures based on given criteria should be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiao Wang , C. -H. Lai

In this article, we develop a clique-based method for social network clustering. We introduce a new index to evaluate the quality of clustering results, and propose an efficient algorithm based on recursive bipartition to maximize an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Guang Ouyang , Dipak K. Dey , Panpan Zhang

It has been shown that community detection algorithms work better for clustering tasks than other, more popular methods, such as k-means. In fact, network analysis based methods often outperform more widely used methods and do not suffer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Nina Mrzelj , Pavlin Gregor Poličar

This paper focuses on density-based clustering, particularly the Density Peak (DP) algorithm and the one based on density-connectivity DBSCAN; and proposes a new method which takes advantage of the individual strengths of these two methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting , Yuan Jin , Maia Angelova

Cluster deletion is an NP-hard graph clustering objective with applications in computational biology and social network analysis, where the goal is to delete a minimum number of edges to partition a graph into cliques. We first provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Vicente Balmaseda , Ying Xu , Yixin Cao , Nate Veldt

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

Detecting communities or the modular structure of real-life networks (e.g. a social network or a product purchase network) is an important task because the way a network functions is often determined by its communities. Traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Swarup Chattopadhyay , Debasis Ganguly

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

Anomaly detection to recognize unusual events in large scale systems in a time sensitive manner is critical in many industries, eg. bank fraud, enterprise systems, medical alerts, etc. Large-scale systems often grow in size and complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Srishti Mishra , Tvarita Jain , Dinkar Sitaram

Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating graphs is community detection, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-23 Luis F Seoane

Finding communities in networks is a problem that remains difficult, in spite of the amount of attention it has recently received. The Stochastic Block-Model (SBM) is a generative model for graphs with "communities" for which, because of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Yali Wan , Marina Meila

We consider the problem of learning latent community structure from multiple correlated networks. We study edge-correlated stochastic block models with two balanced communities, focusing on the regime where the average degree is logarithmic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Julia Gaudio , Miklos Z. Racz , Anirudh Sridhar

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is one of the most widely used approaches for exploring how observations in a dataset relate to each other. However, its greedy nature makes it highly sensitive to small perturbations in the data, often…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Di Wu , Jacob Bien , Snigdha Panigrahi

Complex systems are usually represented as an intricate set of relations between their components forming a complex graph or network. The understanding of their functioning and emergent properties are strongly related to their structural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-01-08 Sergio Gomez , Alberto Fernandez , Clara Granell , Alex Arenas

Complex networks constitute the backbones of many complex systems such as social networks. Detecting the community structure in a complex network is both a challenging and a computationally expensive task. In this paper, we present the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Eduar Castrillo , Elizabeth León , Jonatan Gómez

The rise in complexity of network data in neuroscience, social networks, and protein-protein interaction networks has been accompanied by several efforts to model and understand these data at different scales. A key multiscale network…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-04 Al-Fahad Al-Qadhi , Keith Levin , Vincent Lyzinski

In bipartite networks, community structures are restricted to being disassortative, in that nodes of one type are grouped according to common patterns of connection with nodes of the other type. This makes the stochastic block model (SBM),…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-30 Tzu-Chi Yen , Daniel B. Larremore

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental unsupervised machine learning task with the aim of organizing data into a hierarchy of clusters. Many applications of hierarchical clustering involve sensitive user information, therefore motivating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

Spectral algorithms are classic approaches to clustering and community detection in networks. However, for sparse networks the standard versions of these algorithms are suboptimal, in some cases completely failing to detect communities even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Florent Krzakala , Cristopher Moore , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman , Allan Sly , Lenka Zdeborová , Pan Zhang

The hierarchical structure inherent in many real-world datasets makes the modeling of such hierarchies a crucial objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning. While recent advancements have introduced deep architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Emanuele Palumbo , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Imant Daunhawer , Julia E. Vogt