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The community structure of complex networks reveals both their organization and hidden relationships among their constituents. Most community detection methods currently available are not deterministic, and their results typically depend on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-29 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

In this paper a simple but efficient real-time detecting algorithm is proposed for tracking community structure of dynamic networks. Community structure is intuitively characterized as divisions of network nodes into subgroups, within which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jiaxing Shang , Lianchen Liu , Feng Xie , Zhen Chen , Jiajia Miao , Xuelin Fang , Cheng Wu

Deep clustering is an essential task in modern artificial intelligence, aiming to partition a set of data samples into a given number of homogeneous groups (i.e., clusters). Recent studies have proposed increasingly advanced deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tianyu Cheng , Qun Chen

Spatial ecological networks are widely used to model interactions between georeferenced biological entities (e.g., populations or communities). The analysis of such data often leads to a two-step approach where groups containing similar…

Applications · Statistics 2014-02-24 Vincent Miele , Franck Picard , Stéphane Dray

A challenging problem in the study of complex systems is that of resolving, without prior information, the emergent, mesoscopic organization determined by groups of units whose dynamical activity is more strongly correlated internally than…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-04-21 Mel MacMahon , Diego Garlaschelli

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

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

We formulate a novel technique for the detection of functional clusters in discrete event data. The advantage of this algorithm is that no prior knowledge of the number of functional groups is needed, as our procedure progressively combines…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 S. Feldt , J. Waddell , V. L. Hetrick , J. D. Berke , M. Zochowski

Community structure in networks is observed in many different domains, and unsupervised community detection has received a lot of attention in the literature. Increasingly the focus of network analysis is shifting towards using network…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-02 Jesús Arroyo , Elizaveta Levina

Clusters or communities can provide a coarse-grained description of complex systems at multiple scales, but their detection remains challenging in practice. Community detection methods often define communities as dense subgraphs, or…

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

The growing popularity of online social networks has provided researchers with access to large amount of social network data. This, coupled with the ever increasing computation speed, storage capacity and data mining capabilities, led to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Nearest neighbor search is a basic computational tool used extensively in almost research domains of computer science specially when dealing with large amount of data. However, the use of nearest neighbor search is restricted for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Suman Saha , S. P. Ghrera

Graphical modelling techniques based on sparse selection have been applied to infer complex networks in many fields, including biology and medicine, engineering, finance, and social sciences. One structural feature of some of the networks…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Annaliza McGillivray , Abbas Khalili , David A. Stephens

Many real-world networks, including nervous systems, exhibit meso-scale structure. This means that their elements can be grouped into meaningful sub-networks. In general, these sub-networks are unknown ahead of time and must be "discovered"…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-16 Richard F. Betzel

Nodes in real-world networks organize into densely linked communities where edges appear with high concentration among the members of the community. Identifying such communities of nodes has proven to be a challenging task mainly due to a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Jaewon Yang , Jure Leskovec

In the last few years, there has been a great interest in detecting overlapping communities in complex networks, which is understood as dense groups of nodes featuring a low outbound density. To date, most methods used to compute such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Adrien Friggeri , Guillaume Chelius , Eric Fleury

Personalized community detection aims to generate communities associated with user need on graphs, which benefits many downstream tasks such as node recommendation and link prediction for users, etc. It is of great importance but lack of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zheng Gao , Chun Guo , Xiaozhong Liu

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for social networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks obtained…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-11 Hui-Jia Li , J J. Daniels