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Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Multiplex networks have become increasingly more prevalent in many fields, and have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the complexity of real networks. There is a critical need for developing inference models for multiplex networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arash A. Amini , Marina S. Paez , Lizhen Lin

Zero-shot Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (HCCR) aims to recognize unseen characters by leveraging radical-based semantic compositions. However, existing approaches often treat characters as flat radical sequences, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qiuming Luo , Tao Zeng , Feng Li , Heming Liu , Rui Mao , Chang Kong

Community detection is a task of fundamental importance in social network analysis that can be used in a variety of knowledge-based domains. While there exist many works on community detection based on connectivity structures, they suffer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Mahdi Hajiabadi , Hadi Zare , Hossein Bobarshad

Credal partitions in the framework of belief functions can give us a better understanding of the analyzed data set. In order to find credal community structure in graph data sets, in this paper, we propose a novel evidential community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Kuang Zhou , Quan Pan , Arnaud Martin

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

Clustering is a fundamental analysis tool aiming at classifying data points into groups based on their similarity or distance. It has found successful applications in all natural and social sciences, including biology, physics, economics,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wen-Bo Xie , Yan-Li Lee , Cong Wang , Duan-Bing Chen , Tao Zhou

Complex systems are made up of many interacting components. Network science provides the tools to analyze and understand these interactions. Community detection is a key technique in network science for uncovering the structures that shape…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Louis Boucherie

Community detection based on modularity maximization is one of the most widely used approaches for uncovering mesoscale structures in complex networks. However, it is well known that the modularity function exhibits a highly degenerate…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-26 Francesca Grassetti , Rossana Mastrandrea

State-of-the-art two-stage object detectors apply a classifier to a sparse set of object proposals, relying on region-wise features extracted by RoIPool or RoIAlign as inputs. The region-wise features, in spite of aligning well with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhao-Min Chen , Xin Jin , Borui Zhao , Xiu-Shen Wei , Yanwen Guo

Hierarchies permeate the structure of real networks, whose nodes can be ranked according to different features. However, networks are far from tree-like structures and the detection of hierarchical ordering remains a challenge, hindered by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-07 Elisenda Ortiz , Guillermo García-Pérez , M. Ángeles Serrano

We propose a model for network community detection using topological data analysis, a branch of modern data science that leverages theory from algebraic topology to statistical analysis and machine learning. Specifically, we use cellular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Arne Wolf , Anthea Monod

This paper studies the hierarchical clustering problem, where the goal is to produce a dendrogram that represents clusters at varying scales of a data set. We propose the ParChain framework for designing parallel hierarchical agglomerative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Shangdi Yu , Yiqiu Wang , Yan Gu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

This paper focuses on density-based clustering, particularly the Density Peak (DP) algorithm and the one based on density-connectivity DBSCAN; and proposes a new method which takes advantage of the individual strengths of these two methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting , Yuan Jin , Maia Angelova

Multilayer graphs, consisting of multiple interconnected layers, are widely used to model diverse relationships in the real world. A community is a cohesive subgraph that offers valuable insights for analyzing (multilayer) graphs. Recently,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jianwei Wang , Yuehai Wang , Kai Wang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

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

While the majority of approaches to the characterization of complex networks has relied on measurements considering only the immediate neighborhood of each network node, valuable information about the network topological properties can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Filipi Nascimento Silva

A network has a non-overlapping community structure if the nodes of the network can be partitioned into disjoint sets such that each node in a set is densely connected to other nodes inside the set and sparsely connected to the nodes out-…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Talasila Sai Deepak , Hindol Adhya , Shyamal Kejriwal , Bhanuteja Gullapalli , Saswata Shannigrahi

We develop a greedy algorithm that is fast and scalable in the detection of a nested partition extracted from a dendrogram obtained from hierarchical clustering of a multivariate series. Our algorithm provides a $p$-value for each clade…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-21 Christian Bongiorno , Salvatore Miccichè , Rosario N. Mantegna

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh