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Differently from theoretical scale-free networks, most of real networks present multi-scale behavior with nodes structured in different types of functional groups and communities. While the majority of approaches for classification of nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-22 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Marilza A. Rodrigues , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Standard cross-entropy is the default classification loss across virtually all of machine learning, yet it treats all misclassifications equally, ignoring the semantic distances that a class hierarchy encodes. We propose Hierarchy-Aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 April Chan , Davide D'Ascenzo , Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano

Community detection is the task of clustering objects based on their pairwise relationships. Most of the model-based community detection methods, such as the stochastic block model and its variants, are designed for networks with binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Xiang Li , Yunpeng Zhao , Qing Pan , Ning Hao

Networks have in recent years emerged as an invaluable tool for describing and quantifying complex systems in many branches of science. Recent studies suggest that networks often exhibit hierarchical organization, where vertices divide into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-11-05 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

We uncover that current objective-based Divisive Hierarchical Clustering (DHC) methods produce a dendrogram that does not have three desired properties i.e., no unwarranted splitting, group similar clusters into a same subset, ground-truth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kaifeng Zhang , Kai Ming Ting , Tianrun Liang , Qiuran Zhao

Kernel spectral clustering corresponds to a weighted kernel principal component analysis problem in a constrained optimization framework. The primal formulation leads to an eigen-decomposition of a centered Laplacian matrix at the dual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Raghvendra Mall , Rocco Langone , Johan A. K. Suykens

Consider a network where the nodes split into $K$ different communities. The community labels for the nodes are unknown and it is of major interest to estimate them (i.e., community detection). Degree Corrected Block Model (DCBM) is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-01 Jiashun Jin

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of edges connecting them. Previous work indicates that a robust approach to this problem is the maximization of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Networks often exhibit structure at disparate scales. We propose a method for identifying community structure at different scales based on multiresolution modularity and consensus clustering. Our contribution consists of two parts. First,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Olaf Sporns , Santo Fortunato

Brain networks, graphical models such as those constructed from MRI, have been widely used in pathological prediction and analysis of brain functions. Within the complex brain system, differences in neuronal connection strengths parcellate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wei Dai , Hejie Cui , Xuan Kan , Ying Guo , Sanne van Rooij , Carl Yang

Community detection in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

Heterogeneous networks play a key role in the evolution of communities and the decisions individuals make. These networks link different types of entities, for example, people and the events they attend. Network analysis algorithms usually…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Extending community detection from pairwise networks to hypergraphs introduces fundamental theoretical challenges. Hypergraphs exhibit structural heterogeneity with no direct graph analogue: hyperedges of varying orders can connect nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaze Li , Michael T. Schaub , Leto Peel

Most community detection approaches make very strong assumptions about communities in the data, such as every vertex must belong to exactly one community (the communities form a partition). For vector data, Hierarchical Density Based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ryan DeWolfe

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

Community search is a personalized community discovery problem aimed at finding densely-connected subgraphs containing the query vertex. In particular, the search for communities with high-importance vertices has recently received a great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yanghao Liu , Fangda Guo , Bingbing Xu , Peng Bao , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Finding the dense regions of a graph and relations among them is a fundamental problem in network analysis. Core and truss decompositions reveal dense subgraphs with hierarchical relations. The incremental nature of algorithms for computing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

In this paper we formally define the hierarchical clustering network problem (HCNP) as the problem to find a good hierarchical partition of a network. This new problem focuses on the dynamic process of the clustering rather than on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Daniel Gómez , Javier Castro , Inmaculada Gutiérrez , Rosa Espínola

Although concept-based models promise interpretability by explaining predictions with human-understandable concepts, they typically rely on exhaustive annotations and treat concepts as flat and independent. To circumvent this, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Oscar Hill , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik