Skeleton coupling: a novel interlayer mapping of community evolution in temporal networks

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Autori principali: Kilic, Bengier Ülgen, Muldoon, Sarah Feldt
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author Kilic, Bengier Ülgen
Muldoon, Sarah Feldt
author_facet Kilic, Bengier Ülgen
Muldoon, Sarah Feldt
contents Dynamic community detection (DCD) in temporal networks is a complicated task that involves the selection of a method and its associated hyperparameters. How to choose the most appropriate method generally depends on the type of network being analyzed and the specific properties of the data that define the network. In functional temporal networks derived from neuronal spike train data, communities are expected to be transient, and it is common for the network to contain multiple singleton communities. Here, we compare the performance of different DCD methods on functional temporal networks built from synthetic neuronal time series data with known community structure. We find that, for these networks, DCD methods that utilize interlayer links to perform community carryover between layers outperform other methods. However, we also observe that DCD performance is highly dependent on the topology of interlayer links, especially in the presence of singleton and transient communities. We therefore define a novel way of defining interlayer links in temporal networks called skeleton coupling that is specifically designed to enhance the linkage of communities in the network throughout time based on the topological properties of the community history. We show that integrating skeleton coupling with current DCD methods improves the method's performance in synthetic data with planted singleton and transient communities. The use of skeleton coupling to perform DCD will therefore allow for more accurate and interpretable results of community evolution in real-world neuronal data or in other systems with transient structure and singleton communities.
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spellingShingle Skeleton coupling: a novel interlayer mapping of community evolution in temporal networks
Kilic, Bengier Ülgen
Muldoon, Sarah Feldt
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Dynamic community detection (DCD) in temporal networks is a complicated task that involves the selection of a method and its associated hyperparameters. How to choose the most appropriate method generally depends on the type of network being analyzed and the specific properties of the data that define the network. In functional temporal networks derived from neuronal spike train data, communities are expected to be transient, and it is common for the network to contain multiple singleton communities. Here, we compare the performance of different DCD methods on functional temporal networks built from synthetic neuronal time series data with known community structure. We find that, for these networks, DCD methods that utilize interlayer links to perform community carryover between layers outperform other methods. However, we also observe that DCD performance is highly dependent on the topology of interlayer links, especially in the presence of singleton and transient communities. We therefore define a novel way of defining interlayer links in temporal networks called skeleton coupling that is specifically designed to enhance the linkage of communities in the network throughout time based on the topological properties of the community history. We show that integrating skeleton coupling with current DCD methods improves the method's performance in synthetic data with planted singleton and transient communities. The use of skeleton coupling to perform DCD will therefore allow for more accurate and interpretable results of community evolution in real-world neuronal data or in other systems with transient structure and singleton communities.
title Skeleton coupling: a novel interlayer mapping of community evolution in temporal networks
topic Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10860