Population-level Balance in Signed Networks

W Tang, J Zhu - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Statistical network models are useful for understanding the underlying formation mechanism
and characteristics of complex networks. However, statistical models for signed networks …

Nonparametric Inference for Balance in Signed Networks

X Chen, Y Wang, W Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06172, 2024 - arxiv.org
In many real-world networks, relationships often go beyond simple dyadic presence or
absence; they can be positive, like friendship, alliance, and mutualism, or negative …

SNSAlib: a python library for analyzing signed network

AW Li, JL Lu, Y Fan, XK Xu - Chinese Physics B, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The unique structure of signed networks, characterized by positive and negative edges,
poses significant challenges for analyzing network topology. In recent years, various statistic …

[PDF][PDF] Prediction and clustering in signed networks: a local to global perspective

KY Chiang, CJ Hsieh, N Natarajan, IS Dhillon… - The Journal of Machine …, 2014 - jmlr.org
The study of social networks is a burgeoning research area. However, most existing work is
on networks that simply encode whether relationships exist or not. In contrast, relationships …

Signed network modeling based on structural balance theory

T Derr, C Aggarwal, J Tang - Proceedings of the 27th ACM international …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The modeling of networks, specifically generative models, has been shown to provide a
plethora of information about the underlying network structures, as well as many other …

Stochastic blockmodeling and variational bayes learning for signed network analysis

B Yang, X Liu, Y Li, X Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Signed networks with positive and negative links attract considerable interest in their
studying since they contain more information than unsigned networks. Community detection …

Exponential random graph models for dynamic signed networks: An application to international relations

C Fritz, M Mehrl, PW Thurner, G Kauermann - Political Analysis, 2022 - cambridge.org
Substantive research in the Social Sciences regularly investigates signed networks, where
edges between actors are positive or negative. One often-studied example within …

Proper network randomization is key to assessing social balance

B Hao, IA Kovács - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Social ties, either positive or negative, lead to signed network patterns, the subject of
balance theory. For example, strong balance introduces cycles with even numbers of …

Bayesian approach to modeling and detecting communities in signed network

B Yang, X Zhao, X Liu - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
There has been an increasing interest in exploring signed networks with positive and
negative links in that they contain more information than unsigned networks. As fundamental …

[PDF][PDF] signnet: An R package for analyzing signed networks

D Schoch - Journal of Open Source Software, 2023 - joss.theoj.org
Network analysis usually deals with relations among entities which are positive, such as
friendship, or advice seeking. Most analytic tools are constructed with this assumption, be …