Title
Fast And Simple Decycling And Dismantling Of Networks
Abstract
Decycling and dismantling of complex networks are underlying many important applications in network science. Recently these two closely related problems were tackled by several heuristic algorithms, simple and considerably sub-optimal, on the one hand, and involved and accurate message-passing ones that evaluate single-node marginal probabilities, on the other hand. In this paper we propose a simple and extremely fast algorithm, CoreHD, which recursively removes nodes of the highest degree from the 2-core of the network. CoreHD performs much better than all existing simple algorithms. When applied on real-world networks, it achieves equally good solutions as those obtained by the state-of-art iterative message-passing algorithms at greatly reduced computational cost, suggesting that CoreHD should be the algorithm of choice for many practical purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1038/srep37954
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Field
DocType
Volume
Network science,Heuristic,Computer science,Complex network,Artificial intelligence,SIMPLE algorithm,Recursion
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
2045-2322
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lenka Zdeborová1119078.62
Pan Zhang2173.17
Haijun Zhou37612.53