Université de Fribourg

Spectral coarse graining for random walks in bipartite networks

Wang, Yang ; Zeng, An ; Di, Zengru ; Fan, Ying

In: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2013, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 013104–013104–7

Many real-world networks display a natural bipartite structure, yet analyzing and visualizing large bipartite networks is one of the open challenges in complex network research. A practical approach to this problem would be to reduce the complexity of the bipartite system while at the same time preserve its functionality. However, we find that existing coarse graining methods for monopartite...