Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

A Pólya urn approach to information filtering in complex networks

  • Riccardo Marcaccioli,
  • Giacomo Livan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08667-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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With ever-growing datasets, it is useful to filter out details and keep only the links that carry the relevant structural information. Here the authors generalize the disparity filter by providing a tolerance parameter that can be used to tune how strict the filter is in the selection of edges to preserve.