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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

The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yudong Sun , Bogdan Danila , Kresimir Josic , Kevin E. Bassler

Real bipartite networks combine degree-constrained random mixing with structured, locality-like rules. We introduce a statistical filter that benchmarks node-level bipartite clustering against degree-preserving randomizations to classify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-27 Lucía S. Ramírez , Roya Aliakbarisani , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Community detection approaches resolve complex networks into smaller groups (communities) that are expected to be relatively edge-dense and well-connected. The stochastic block model (SBM) is one of several approaches used to uncover…

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

Community detection can reveal the underlying structure and patterns of complex networks, identify sets of nodes with specific functions or similar characteristics, and study the evolution process and development trends of networks. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiaqi Yao , Lewis Mitchell

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

We consider the problem of community detection in the Stochastic Block Model with a finite number $K$ of communities of sizes linearly growing with the network size $n$. This model consists in a random graph such that each pair of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

Community detection or clustering is a crucial task for understanding the structure of complex systems. In some networks, nodes are permitted to be linked by either "positive" or "negative" edges; such networks are called signed networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-13 Zhaoyue Zhong , Xiangrong Wang , Cunquan Qu , Guanghui Wang

The identification of influential nodes in complex network can be very challenging. If the network has a community structure, centrality measures may fail to identify the complete set of influential nodes, as the hubs and other central…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-23 J. Liebig , A. Rao

Many bipartite networks exhibit hierarchical community structure, but existing community detection methods are not well-suited for detecting hierarchy. They also do not effectively handle weighted bipartite networks. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tania Ghosh , Kevin E. Bassler

Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

It is common in the study of networks to investigate meso-scale features to try to gain an understanding of network structure and function. For example, numerous algorithms have been developed to try to identify "communities," which are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Prakash Balachandran , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha , Michael W. Mahoney

Networks are useful representations of many systems with interacting entities, such as social, biological and physical systems. Characterizing the meso-scale organization, i.e. the community structure, is an important problem in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-06 Abdullah Karaaslanli , Selin Aviyente

We propose a streamlined spectral algorithm for community detection in the two-community stochastic block model (SBM) under constant edge density assumptions. By reducing algorithmic complexity through the elimination of non-essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sie Hendrata Dharmawan , Peter Chin

Stochastic blockmodels have been proposed as a tool for detecting community structure in networks as well as for generating synthetic networks for use as benchmarks. Most blockmodels, however, ignore variation in vertex degree, making them…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-02 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Community detection in complex networks is a topic of high interest in many fields. Bipartite networks are a special type of complex networks in which nodes are decomposed into two disjoint sets, and only nodes between the two sets can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Zhenping Li , Rui-Sheng Wang , Shihua Zhang , Xiang-Sun Zhang

Bipartite networks provide an effective resource for representing, characterizing, and modeling several abstract and real-world systems and structures involving binary relations, which include food webs, social interactions, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

Network data has attracted growing interest across scientific domains, prompting the development of various network models. Existing network analysis methods mainly focus on unsigned networks, whereas signed networks, consisting of both…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yuwen Wang , Shiwen Ye , Jingnan Zhang , Junhui Wang

The identification of community structure in a social network is an important problem tackled in the literature of network analysis. There are many solutions to this problem using a static scenario, when facing a dynamic scenario some…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Aurélio Ribeiro Costa

Discovering communities in complex networks means grouping nodes similar to each other, to uncover latent information about them. There are hundreds of different algorithms to solve the community detection task, each with its own…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Michele Coscia