Detecting Hierarchical Structure in Networks
Publication: Research - peer-review › Article in proceedings – Annual report year: 2012
Many real-world networks exhibit hierarchical organization. Previous models of hierarchies within relational data has focused on binary trees; however, for many networks it is unknown whether there is hierarchical structure, and if there is, a binary tree might not account well for it. We propose a generative Bayesian model that is able to infer whether hierarchies are present or not from a hypothesis space encompassing all types of hierarchical tree structures. For efficient inference we propose a collapsed Gibbs sampling procedure that jointly infers a partition and its hierarchical structure. On synthetic and real data we demonstrate that our model can detect hierarchical structure leading to better link-prediction than competing models. Our model can be used to detect if a network exhibits hierarchical structure, thereby leading to a better comprehension and statistical account the network.
| Original language | English |
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| Title | 2012 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-1-4673-1877-8 |
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| State | Published |
Workshop
| Workshop | 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) |
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| Country | Spain |
| City | Baiona |
| Period | 28-05-12 → 30-05-12 |
| Internet address | http://cip2012.tsc.uc3m.es/ |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: No match on DOI |
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