Community detection, link prediction, and layer interdependence in multilayer networks

De Bacco, Caterina, Power, Eleanor A., Larremore, Daniel B. and Moore, Cristopher (2017) Community detection, link prediction, and layer interdependence in multilayer networks. Physical Review E, 95 (4). ISSN 2470-0045

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Abstract

Complex systems are often characterized by distinct types of interactions between the same entities. These can be described as a multilayer network where each layer represents one type of interaction. These layers may be interdependent in complicated ways, revealing different kinds of structure in the network. In this work we present a generative model, and an efficient expectation-maximization algorithm, which allows us to perform inference tasks such as community detection and link prediction in this setting. Our model assumes overlapping communities that are common between the layers, while allowing these communities to affect each layer in a different way, including arbitrary mixtures of assortative, disassortative, or directed structure. It also gives us a mathematically principled way to define the interdependence between layers, by measuring how much information about one layer helps us predict links in another layer. In particular, this allows us to bundle layers together to compress redundant information and identify small groups of layers which suffice to predict the remaining layers accurately. We illustrate these findings by analyzing synthetic data and two real multilayer networks, one representing social support relationships among villagers in South India and the other representing shared genetic substring material between genes of the malaria parasite.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.aps.org/pre/
Additional Information:	© 2017 American Physical Society
Divisions:	Methodology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2018 12:19
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 01:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86519

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