Machine learning and the physical sciences

G Carleo, I Cirac, K Cranmer, L Daudet, M Schuld… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Machine learning (ML) encompasses a broad range of algorithms and modeling tools used
for a vast array of data processing tasks, which has entered most scientific disciplines in …

Community detection in networks: A user guide

S Fortunato, D Hric - Physics reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Community detection in networks is one of the most popular topics of modern network
science. Communities, or clusters, are usually groups of vertices having higher probability of …

Diffusion improves graph learning

J Gasteiger, S Weißenberger… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Graph convolution is the core of most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and usually
approximated by message passing between direct (one-hop) neighbors. In this work, we …

The ground truth about metadata and community detection in networks

L Peel, DB Larremore, A Clauset - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
Across many scientific domains, there is a common need to automatically extract a simplified
view or coarse-graining of how a complex system's components interact. This general task is …

Statistical physics of inference: Thresholds and algorithms

L Zdeborová, F Krzakala - Advances in Physics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Many questions of fundamental interest in today's science can be formulated as inference
problems: some partial, or noisy, observations are performed over a set of variables and the …

Identification of core-periphery structure in networks

X Zhang, T Martin, MEJ Newman - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Many networks can be usefully decomposed into a dense core plus an outlying, loosely
connected periphery. Here we propose an algorithm for performing such a decomposition …

Structure and inference in annotated networks

MEJ Newman, A Clauset - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
For many networks of scientific interest we know both the connections of the network and
information about the network nodes, such as the age or gender of individuals in a social …

A network approach to topic models

M Gerlach, TP Peixoto, EG Altmann - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
One of the main computational and scientific challenges in the modern age is to extract
useful information from unstructured texts. Topic models are one popular machine-learning …

Hierarchical block structures and high-resolution model selection in large networks

TP Peixoto - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
Discovering and characterizing the large-scale topological features in empirical networks
are crucial steps in understanding how complex systems function. However, most existing …

Spectral methods for community detection and graph partitioning

MEJ Newman - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
We consider three distinct and well-studied problems concerning network structure:
community detection by modularity maximization, community detection by statistical …