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Multiplex networks have emerged as a promising approach for modeling complex systems, where each layer represents a different mode of interaction among entities of the same type. A core task in analyzing these networks is to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis with many methods available to estimate communities. Most of these methods assume that the number of communities is known, which is often not the case in practice. We study a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-18 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

Community detection seeks to recover mesoscopic structure from network data that may be binary, count-valued, signed, directed, weighted, or multilayer. The stochastic block model (SBM) explains such structure by positing a latent partition…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Marios Papamichalis , Regina Ruane

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with applications in many diverse areas. The stochastic block model is a common tool for model-based community detection, and asymptotic tools for checking consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying link farms in the World Wide Web. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Peter J. Bickel , Purnamrita Sarkar

Bipartite networks are a common type of network data in which there are two types of vertices, and only vertices of different types can be connected. While bipartite networks exhibit community structure like their unipartite counterparts,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset , Abigail Z. Jacobs

This article explores the importance of examining the solution space in community detection, highlighting its role in achieving reliable results when dealing with real-world problems. A Bayesian framework is used to estimate the stability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

Community structure in networks is observed in many different domains, and unsupervised community detection has received a lot of attention in the literature. Increasingly the focus of network analysis is shifting towards using network…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-02 Jesús Arroyo , Elizaveta Levina

Identifying the number of communities is a fundamental problem in community detection, which has received increasing attention recently. However, rapid advances in technology have led to the emergence of large-scale networks in various…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-20 Jiayi Deng , Danyang Huang , Xiangyu Chang , Bo Zhang

Modular and hierarchical community structures are pervasive in real-world complex systems. A great deal of effort has gone into trying to detect and study these structures. Important theoretical advances in the detection of modular have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Michael T. Schaub , Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Community detection is an important research topic in complex networks. We present the employment of a genetic algorithm to detect communities in complex networks which is based on optimizing network modularity. It does not need any prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-06 Mursel Tasgin , Amac Herdagdelen , Haluk Bingol

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis which is made more challenging by overlaps between communities which often occur in practice. Here we propose a general, flexible, and interpretable generative model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-16 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

While there exist a wide range of effective methods for community detection in networks, most of them require one to know in advance how many communities one is looking for. Here we present a method for estimating the number of communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Maria A. Riolo , George T. Cantwell , Gesine Reinert , M. E. J. Newman

We derive rigorous bounds for well-defined community structure in complex networks for a stochastic block model (SBM) benchmark. In particular, we analyze the effect of inter-community "noise" (inter-community edges) on any "community…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-14 Richard K. Darst , David R. Reichman , Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

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

We propose an efficient meta-algorithm for Bayesian estimation problems that is based on low-degree polynomials, semidefinite programming, and tensor decomposition. The algorithm is inspired by recent lower bound constructions for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Samuel B. Hopkins , David Steurer

Identifying overlapping communities in networks is a challenging task. In this work we present a novel approach to community detection that utilises the Bayesian non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) model to produce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-28 Ioannis Psorakis , Stephen Roberts , Ben Sheldon

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