Adversarial perturbations and RIS interaction vectors improve covert communication.
problem Covert communication in the presence of RISs.
method Designing RIS interaction vectors to balance receiver and eavesdropper detection, adding adversarial perturbations to signals.
result Adversarial perturbations and RIS interaction vectors can be jointly designed to boost covert communications.
Adversarial machine learning hides 5G communications from eavesdroppers.
problem Hiding 5G communications from eavesdroppers using DL classifiers.
method Craft adversarial perturbations to fool DL classifiers.
result Adversarial perturbations can hide 5G communications with high probability.
Evidence acquisition costs influence disclosure behavior and preference.
problem How evidence acquisition costs affect disclosure behavior and preference.
method Analyzes sender-receiver interactions with covert and overt evidence acquisition, varying certification costs.
result Equilibria converge to the Pareto-worst free-learning equilibrium as costs vanish, and receivers prefer covert to overt acquisition.
Watermarking of deep neural networks (DNN) can enable their tracing once released by a data owner. In this paper, we generalize white-box watermarking algorithms for DNNs, where the data owner needs white-box access to the model to extract the watermark. White-box watermarking algorithms have the advantage that they do…
A novel unified Bayesian framework for network detection is developed, under which a detection algorithm is derived based on random walks on graphs. The algorithm detects threat networks using partial observations of their activity, and is proved to be optimum in the Neyman-Pearson sense. The algorithm is defined by a …
Framework detects covert financial market manipulation using LOB representations.
problem Detecting covert financial market manipulation (spoofing) from complex anomaly patterns in multilevel prices.
method Cascaded contrastive representation learning of LOB data.
result Transformer-based architectures achieve state-of-the-art results in detection performance.
Network detection is an important capability in many areas of applied research in which data can be represented as a graph of entities and relationships. Oftentimes the object of interest is a relatively small subgraph in an enormous, potentially uninteresting background. This aspect characterizes network detection as …
Matryoshka hides secret models in a carrier model, achieving high capacity and robustness.
problem Stealing functionality of private ML data by hiding models in a carrier model.
method Parameter sharing approach exploiting the learning capacity of the carrier model.
result Hides a 26x larger secret model or 8 secret models in the carrier model.
New model detects hidden group structures in criminal networks.
problem Challenges in identifying group structures in criminal networks with noisy data.
method Developed an extended stochastic block model (ESBM) to infer group structures.
result Unveiled complex block structures in an Italian mafia network.
Theory explains power-law distributions without complex models.
problem Understanding power-law distributions in geometrically growing systems.
method Developed a theory of geometrically growing systems and applied it to explain various distributions.
result The geometrically growing system's distribution flattens over time, increasing relative size ratios.
The functional and structural representation of the brain as a complex network is marked by the fact that the comparison of noisy and intrinsically correlated high-dimensional structures between experimental conditions or groups shuns typical mass univariate methods. Furthermore most network estimation methods cannot d…
OCCER uses regression models to classify data points as outliers.
problem One-class classification problem where training data is only from the target class.
method OCCER converts OCC to many regression problems, computes outlier scores from regression errors.
result OCCER outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on various datasets.
A new framework maximizes influence spread in social networks by accounting for inter-community diffusion.
problem Real-world social networks have inter-community influence that is often overlooked in community-based IM approaches.
method Community-IM++ uses a heuristic based on community-based diffusion degree and progressive budgeting to model and prioritize cross-community diffusion.
result Community-IM++ achieves near-greedy influence spread at up to 100 times lower runtime than existing methods.
We introduce the concept of community trees that summarizes topological structures within a network. A community tree is a tree structure representing clique communities from the clique percolation method (CPM). The community tree also generates a persistent diagram. Community trees and persistent diagrams reveal topol…
Community detection improves stock market portfolio optimization.
problem Improving portfolio optimization in financial markets.
method Community detection in correlation-based networks of worldwide stock markets.
result Portfolios constructed using community detection outperform traditional methods.
We introduce a new paradigm that is important for community detection in the realm of network analysis. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When most of the members of the weak communities also belong to stronger communities, t…
Study exact community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with different intensities.
problem Community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with varying intensities.
method Explicitly find the threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation.
result Threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation is identified.
The paper introduces a method for detecting principal communities and embedding vertices.
problem Detecting and embedding vertices in graphs with community structure.
method Principal graph encoder embedding method that detects principal communities and produces vertex embeddings.
result The method successfully detects principal communities and produces accurate vertex embeddings.
Improved distributed learning with reduced communication costs.
problem Efficient communication in resource-constrained environments for distributed learning.
method Proposed a cost-effective partial communication protocol.
result Communication cost is reduced to O(logT), improving significantly on full communication. Statistical estimates can often be improved by fusion of data from several different sources. One example is so-called ensemble methods which have been successfully applied in areas such as machine learning for classification and clustering. In this paper, we present an ensemble method to improve community detection by…
MACC learns communication protocols by adapting counterfactual reasoning.
problem Credit assignment and non-stationarity in communication environments.
method Adapts counterfactual reasoning to overcome credit assignment and uses action policy and Q-function of other agents to handle non-stationarity.
result MACC outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in four scenarios.
A novel framework for adaptive multi-agent communication in reinforcement learning.
problem Manual specification of communication structures in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Learning Structured Communication (LSC) framework using hierarchical graph neural networks.
result Adaptive hierarchical formations and efficient message propagation among agents.
A framework for multi-agent communication over noisy channels in reinforcement learning.
problem Effective communication between multiple agents in a noisy environment.
method A novel multi-agent partially observable Markov decision process (MA-POMDP) framework considering noisy communication channels.
result Jointly learned policies outperform separate learning of communication and decision making.
Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine which method would be suitable to get insights into the structural information of…
The analysis of temporal networks has a wide area of applications in a world of technological advances. An important aspect of temporal network analysis is the discovery of community structures. Real data networks are often very large and the communities are observed to have a hierarchical structure referred to as mult…
Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted attention in many different fields, including computer science, statistics, social sci…
GRADE models evolving graph dynamics by learning node and community representations.
problem Lack of tools to study temporal community dynamics in evolving graphs.
method GRADE is a probabilistic model that learns evolving node and community representations via a random walk prior and variational inference.
result GRADE outperforms baselines in dynamic link prediction and dynamic community detection.
Paper studies fundamental limits of communication in distributed learning.
problem Communication efficiency in model aggregation for distributed learning.
method Rate-Distortion approach to model aggregation as a vector Gaussian CEO problem.
result Derives rate region bound and sum-rate-distortion function for model aggregation.
Study recovers community structure from coarse graph measurements.
problem Community recovery from low-resolution graph measurements.
method Formalized coarsening process of graph measurements, developed conditions for perfect recovery.
result Simple and closed-form asymptotic conditions for perfect recovery of coarse graph communities.
New algorithm reduces communication traffic in decentralized learning.
problem Communication bottleneck in decentralized learning for low-bandwidth workers.
method Sparsification and adaptive peer selection to reduce communication traffic.
result Significant reduction in communication traffic compared to existing methods.
New method detects overlapping communities in weighted graphs without pure nodes assumption.
problem Detect overlapping communities in weighted graphs without making pure nodes assumption.
method Convex optimization-based approach for weighted graphs.
result Success on artificial and real-world datasets.
I2C enables agents to learn efficient communication without redundancy.
problem Redundant broadcast communication in multi-agent cooperation.
method I2C learns a prior for agent-agent communication via causal inference and reinforcement learning.
result I2C reduces communication overhead and improves multi-agent cooperative performance.
Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.
problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.
This paper focuses on two fundamental tasks of graph analysis: community detection and node representation learning, which capture the global and local structures of graphs, respectively. In the current literature, these two tasks are usually independently studied while they are actually highly correlated. We propose a…
We investigate the community structure of the global ownership network of transnational corporations. We find a pronounced organization in communities that cannot be explained by randomness. Despite the global character of this network, communities reflect first of all the geographical location of firms, while the indu…
Paper proposes a method to detect fair communities in graphs considering demographic attributes.
problem Inconsistent community detection violates fairness constraints for nodes with demographic attributes.
method Develops an ℓ1-regularized pseudo-likelihood approach for fair graphical model selection. result The method ensures demographic groups are fairly represented within detected communities.
Generative model for creating graphs with new communities.
problem Generating graphs with a new community structure.
method Fit Gaussian mixture model to latent space data and add new clusters based on MDL principle.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness of GCA for generating graphs with new community structures.
Study examines Fed's pandemic communication strategies.
problem Analyzing Federal Reserve's communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
method Sentiment analysis, topic modeling, comparative analysis of previous crises.
result Fed's communication during the pandemic focused on financial stability, market volatility, social welfare, and unconventional monetary policy.
We propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are of order logn or higher. Starting from a roughly correct community partition …
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 called community detection in networks and is analogous to searching for clusters in independent vector data. It is common to evaluate …
The paper introduces curvature-based clustering algorithms for graph analysis.
problem Identifying densely connected substructures in graphs for community detection.
method Discrete Ricci curvatures and geometric flows to reveal community structure.
result The curvature-based approach can identify overlapping communities in graphs.
Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The present paper studies community detection in Degree-Corrected Block Models (DCB…
Local network community detection aims to find a single community in a large network, while inspecting only a small part of that network around a given seed node. This is much cheaper than finding all communities in a network. Most methods for local community detection are formulated as ad-hoc optimization problems. In…
A new probabilistic model detects communities in networks using both structure and node features.
problem Detecting communities in networks with node features for more accurate results.
method Generative probabilistic model considering network structure and node features.
result The model accurately detects communities and determines feature strength.
Attention to entropic communication improves message decoding and cooperation.
problem Improper weighting in attention mechanisms hinders optimal communication.
method Combining attention and relative entropy (RE) for optimal message encoding and decoding.
result Proper attention communication emerges via weighted RE, aiding optimal protocols.
New algorithms reduce communication costs in collaborative learning.
problem Reducing communication costs in collaborative learning.
method Distributed boosting and adaptation to classification noise.
result Communication-efficient algorithms for collaborative PAC learning robust to noise.
Study shows it's impossible to count communities without finding them.
problem Determining the number and sizes of communities in random graph models.
method Hypothesis testing between models with different community structures, using low-degree polynomial framework.
result Testing between two different planted distributions is as hard as finding the communities.
Community detection in graphs has been extensively studied both in theory and in applications. However, detecting communities in hypergraphs is more challenging. In this paper, we propose a tensor decomposition approach for guaranteed learning of communities in a special class of hypergraphs modeling social tagging sys…