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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Purnamrita Sarkar , Y. X. Rachel Wang , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

We present a method based on the orthogonal symmetric non-negative matrix tri-factorization of the normalized Laplacian matrix for community detection in complex networks. While the exact factorization of a given order may not exist and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-19 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

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

Like clustering analysis, community detection aims at assigning nodes in a network into different communities. Fdp is a recently proposed density-based clustering algorithm which does not need the number of clusters as prior input and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Tao You , Ben-Chang Shia , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Based on the classical Degree Corrected Stochastic Blockmodel (DCSBM) model for network community detection problem, we propose two novel approaches: principal component clustering (PCC) and normalized principal component clustering (NPCC).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

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

We consider the problem of estimating community memberships of nodes in a network, where every node is associated with a vector determining its degree of membership in each community. Existing provably consistent algorithms often require…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-26 Xueyu Mao , Purnamrita Sarkar , Deepayan Chakrabarti

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

We present a novel active learning algorithm for community detection on networks. Our proposed algorithm uses a Maximal Expected Model Change (MEMC) criterion for querying network nodes label assignments. MEMC detects nodes that maximally…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Kushnir , Benjamin Mirabelli

Detecting communities or the modular structure of real-life networks (e.g. a social network or a product purchase network) is an important task because the way a network functions is often determined by its communities. Traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Swarup Chattopadhyay , Debasis Ganguly

Community structures detection is one of the fundamental problems in complex network analysis towards understanding the topology structures of the network and the functions of it. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Zhenhai Chang , Hui-Min Cheng , Chao Yan , Xianjun Yin , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

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

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that discounts given block structures present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-04 Hasti Narimanzadeh , Takayuki Hiraoka , Mikko Kivelä

The stochastic block model (SBM) is widely studied as a benchmark for graph clustering aka community detection. In practice, graph data often come with node attributes that bear additional information about the communities. Previous works…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-12 O. Duranthon , L. Zdeborová

Understanding community structures is crucial for analyzing networks, as nodes join communities that collectively shape large-scale networks. In real-world settings, the formation of communities is often impacted by several social factors,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Elze de Vink , Frank W. Takes , Akrati Saxena

In network applications, it has become increasingly common to obtain datasets in the form of multiple networks observed on the same set of subjects, where each network is obtained in a related but different experiment condition or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Shuxiao Chen , Sifan Liu , Zongming Ma

We study community detection in multiple networks with jointly correlated node attributes and edges. This setting arises naturally in applications such as social platforms, where a shared set of users may exhibit both correlated friendship…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

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 stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu