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We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Modularity is a popular measure of community structure. However, maximizing the modularity can lead to many competing partitions, with almost the same modularity, that are poorly correlated with each other. It can also produce illusory…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-30 Pan Zhang , Cristopher Moore

We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Dynamic networks, especially those representing social networks, undergo constant evolution of their community structure over time. Nodes can migrate between different communities, communities can split into multiple new communities,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Timothy La Fond , Geoffrey Sanders , Christine Klymko , Van Emden Henson

We describe techniques for the robust detection of community structure in some classes of time-dependent networks. Specifically, we consider the use of statistical null models for facilitating the principled identification of structural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-04-16 Danielle S. Bassett , Mason A. Porter , Nicholas F. Wymbs , Scott T. Grafton , Jean M. Carlson , Peter J. Mucha

Blockmodels are a foundational tool for modeling community structure in networks, with the stochastic blockmodel (SBM), degree-corrected blockmodel (DCBM), and popularity-adjusted blockmodel (PABM) forming a natural hierarchy of increasing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Subhankar Bhadra , Minh Tang , Srijan Sengupta

In this paper, we consider networks consisting of a finite number of non-overlapping communities. To extract these communities, the interaction between pairs of nodes may be sampled from a large available data set, which allows a given node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

Networks with node covariates offer two advantages to community detection methods, namely, (i) exploit covariates to improve the quality of communities, and more importantly, (ii) explain the discovered communities by identifying the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shubham Gupta , Gururaj K. , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Rui M. Castro

We consider community detection in Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Models (DC-SBM). We propose a spectral clustering algorithm based on a suitably normalized adjacency matrix. We show that this algorithm consistently recovers the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Lennart Gulikers , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

The increasing prevalence of network data in a vast variety of fields and the need to extract useful information out of them have spurred fast developments in related models and algorithms. Among the various learning tasks with network…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-10 Luyi Shen , Arash Amini , Nathaniel Josephs , Lizhen Lin

Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , Lahari Anne , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

Network is a simple but powerful representation of real-world complex systems. Network community analysis has become an invaluable tool to explore and reveal the internal organization of nodes. However, only a few methods were directly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Xuemei Ning , Zhaoqi Liu , Shihua Zhang

In community detection, datasets often suffer a sampling bias for which nodes which would normally have a high affinity appear to have zero affinity. This happens for example when two affine users of a social network were not exposed to one…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Sameh Othman , Johannes Schulz , Marco Baity-Jesi , Caterina De Bacco

Community detection is an important tool for exploring and classifying the properties of large complex networks and should be of great help for spatial networks. Indeed, in addition to their location, nodes in spatial networks can have…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-01 Federica Cerina , Vincenzo De Leo , Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Chessa

A generalization of modularity, called block modularity, is defined. This is a quality function which evaluates a label assignment against an arbitrary block pattern. Therefore, unlike standard modularity or its variants, arbitrary network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-01 Rudy Arthur

Community structure detection in complex networks is important since it can help better understand the network topology and how the network works. However, there is still not a clear and widely-accepted definition of community structure,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Kai-Di Sun , Si-Qi Wang

Hidden community is a new graph-theoretical concept recently proposed [4], in which the authors also propose a meta-approach called HICODE (Hidden Community Detection) for detecting hidden communities. HICODE is demonstrated through…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jialu Bao , Kun He , Xiaodong Xin , Bart Selman , John E. Hopcroft

Finding community structures in social networks is considered to be a challenging task as many of the proposed algorithms are computationally expensive and does not scale well for large graphs. Most of the community detection algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Partha Basuchowdhuri , Satyaki Sikdar , Varsha Nagarajan , Khusbu Mishra , Surabhi Gupta , Subhashis Majumder

Revealing a community structure in a network or dataset is a central problem arising in many scientific areas. The modularity function $Q$ is an established measure quantifying the quality of a community, being identified as a set of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Francesco Tudisco , Pedro Mercado , Matthias Hein