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Graph link prediction (LP) plays a critical role in socially impactful applications, such as job recommendation and friendship formation. Ensuring fairness in this task is thus essential. While many fairness-aware methods manipulate graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lilian Marey , Mathilde Perez , Tiphaine Viard , Charlotte Laclau

Community detection in network analysis aims at partitioning nodes in a network into $K$ disjoint communities. Most currently available algorithms assume that $K$ is known, but choosing a correct $K$ is generally very difficult for real…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-03 Chong Chen , Ruibin Xi , Nan Lin

Despite the development of effective deepfake detectors in recent years, recent studies have demonstrated that biases in the data used to train these detectors can lead to disparities in detection accuracy across different races and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Yan Ju , Shu Hu , Shan Jia , George H. Chen , Siwei Lyu

Community detection is one of the most important methodological fields of network science, and one which has attracted a significant amount of attention over the past decades. This area deals with the automated division of a network into…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-07 Tiago P. Peixoto

The discovery of community structure is a common challenge in the analysis of network data. Many methods have been proposed for finding community structure, but few have been proposed for determining whether the structure found is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-29 Brian Karrer , Elizaveta Levina , M. E. J. Newman

Group fairness metrics are an established way of assessing the fairness of prediction-based decision-making systems. However, these metrics are still insufficiently linked to philosophical theories, and their moral meaning is often unclear.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Joachim Baumann , Corinna Hertweck , Michele Loi , Christoph Heitz

Network structures, consisting of nodes and edges, have applications in almost all subjects. A set of nodes is called a community if the nodes have strong interrelations. Industries (including cell phone carriers and online social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Haoye Lu , Amiya Nayak

In this work we give a community detection algorithm in which the communities both respects the intrinsic order of a directed acyclic graph and also finds similar nodes. We take inspiration from classic similarity measures of bibliometrics,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-12 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Tim S. Evans

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

Community detection is a well established method for studying the meso scale structure of social networks. Applying a community detection algorithm results in a division of a network into communities that is often used to inspect and reason…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Dafne E. van Kuppevelt , Rena Bakhshi , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Frank W. Takes

Community structures detection in signed network is very important for understanding not only the topology structures of signed networks, but also the functions of them, such as information diffusion, epidemic spreading, etc. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Chao Yan , Hui-Min Cheng , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Decision-making processes often involve voting. Human interactions with exogenous entities such as legislations or products can be effectively modeled as two-mode (bipartite) signed networks-where people can either vote positively,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-05 Elena Candellone , Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Sofia Chelmi , Javier Garcia-Bernardo

Finding community structures in networks is important in network science, technology, and applications. To date, most algorithms that aim to find community structures only focus either on unipartite or bipartite networks. A unipartite…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-16 Chang Chang , Chao Tang

The problem of community detection is relevant in many disciplines of science and modularity optimization is the widely accepted method for this purpose. It has recently been shown that this approach presents a resolution limit by which it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 A. D. Medus , C. O. Dorso

Community detection is of great importance for understand-ing graph structure in social networks. The communities in real-world networks are often overlapped, i.e. some nodes may be a member of multiple clusters. How to uncover the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan

Many real-world networks are so large that we must simplify their structure before we can extract useful information about the systems they represent. As the tools for doing these simplifications proliferate within the network literature,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Rosvall , D. Axelsson , C. T. Bergstrom

Many complex systems can be represented as networks, and how a network breaks up into subnetworks or communities is of wide interest. However, the development of a method to detect nodes important to communities that is both fast and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Yang Wang , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Complex networks can be typically broken down into groups or modules. Discovering this "community structure" is an important step in studying the large-scale structure of networks. Many algorithms have been proposed for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jan Dreier , Philipp Kuinke , Rafael Przybylski , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

Many real-world complex networks exhibit a community structure, in which the modules correspond to actual functional units. Identifying these communities is a key challenge for scientists. A common approach is to search for the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-22 Federico Botta , Charo I. del Genio