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Networks can have various types of mesoscale structures. One type of mesoscale structure in networks is core-periphery structure, which consists of densely-connected core nodes and sparsely-connected peripheral nodes. The core nodes are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Theodore Y. Faust , Mason A. Porter

We introduce several novel and computationally efficient methods for detecting "core--periphery structure" in networks. Core--periphery structure is a type of mesoscale structure that includes densely-connected core vertices and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Mihai Cucuringu , Puck Rombach , Sang Hoon Lee , Mason A. Porter

Profiling core-periphery structures in networks has attracted significant attention, leading to the development of various methods. Among these, the rich-core method is distinguished for being entirely parameter-free and scalable to large…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-17 Jiaqi Nie , Qi Xuan , Dehong Gao , Zhongyuan Ruan

This study relates the local property of node dominance to local and global properties of a network. Iterative removal of dominated nodes yields a distributed algorithm for computing a core-periphery decomposition of a social network, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Jennifer Gamble , Harish Chintakunta , Adam Wilkerson , Hamid Krim , Ananthram Swami

Many networks can be usefully decomposed into a dense core plus an outlying, loosely-connected periphery. Here we propose an algorithm for performing such a decomposition on empirical network data using methods of statistical inference. Our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Xiao Zhang , Travis Martin , M. E. J. Newman

Core-periphery networks are structures that present a set of central and densely connected nodes, namely the core, and a set of non-central and sparsely connected nodes, namely the periphery. The rich-club refers to a set in which the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Matteo Cinelli , Giovanna Ferraro , Antonio Iovanella

We develop a geometric framework to study the structure and function of complex networks. We assume that hyperbolic geometry underlies these networks, and we show that with this assumption, heterogeneous degree distributions and strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-14 Dmitri Krioukov , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Maksim Kitsak , Amin Vahdat , Marian Boguna

Over the last decade, random hyperbolic graphs have proved successful in providing geometric explanations for many key properties of real-world networks, including strong clustering, high navigability, and heterogeneous degree…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-01 Béatrice Désy , Patrick Desrosiers , Antoine Allard

The concept of nestedness, in particular for ecological and economical networks, has been introduced as a structural characteristic of real interacting systems. We suggest that the nestedness is in fact another way to express a mesoscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-22 Sang Hoon Lee

It has been experimentally shown that communities in social networks tend to have a core-periphery topology. However, there is still a limited understanding of the precise structure of core-periphery communities in social networks including…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Junwei Su , Peter Marbach

Hyperbolic network models have gained considerable attention in recent years, mainly due to their capability of explaining many peculiar features of real-world networks. One of the most widely known models of this type is the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-21 Bianka Kovács , Sámuel G. Balogh , Gergely Palla

A key topic in network science is the detection of intermediate or meso-scale structures. Community, core-periphery, disassortative and other partitions allow us to understand the organisation and function of large networks. In this work we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rudy Arthur

The behavior of many complex systems is determined by a core of densely interconnected units. While many methods are available to identify the core of a network when connections between nodes are all of the same type, a principled approach…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-14 Federico Battiston , Jeremy Guillon , Mario Chavez , Vito Latora , Fabrizio De Vico Fallani

Core-periphery is a key feature of large-scale networks underlying a wide range of social, biological, and transportation phenomena. Despite its prevalence in empirical data, it is unclear whether this property is a consequence of more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-26 Javier Ureña-Carrion , Fariba Karimi , Gerardo Iñiguez , Mikko Kivelä

Core-periphery detection is a key task in exploratory network analysis where one aims to find a core, a set of nodes well-connected internally and with the periphery, and a periphery, a set of nodes connected only (or mostly) with the core.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Francesco Tudisco , Desmond J. Higham

Detecting the presence of mesoscale structures in complex networks is of primary importance. This is especially true for financial networks, whose structural organization deeply affects their resilience to events like default cascades,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-22 Jeroen van Lidth de Jeude , Guido Caldarelli , Tiziano Squartini

Hypergraphs are useful mathematical representations of overlapping and nested subsets of interacting units, including groups of genes or brain regions, economic cartels, political or military coalitions, and groups of products that are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-03 Cornelius Fritz , Yubai Yuan , Michael Schweinberger

Many scale-free networks exhibit a rich club structure, where high degree vertices form tightly interconnected subgraphs. In this paper, we explore the emergence of rich clubs in the context of shortest path based centrality metrics. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

Core-periphery structure is an essential mesoscale feature in complex networks. Previous researches mostly focus on discriminative approaches while in this work, we propose a generative model called masked Bayesian non-negative matrix…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhonghao Wang , Ru Yuan , Jiaye Fu , Ka-Chun Wong , Chengbin Peng

A number of important transport networks, such as the airline and trade networks of the world, exhibit a characteristic core-periphery structure, wherein a few nodes are highly interconnected and the rest of the network frays into a tree.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 T. Verma , F. Russmann , N. A. M. Araújo , J. Nagler , H. J. Herrmann