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However, a particular grouping with desired semantics, as the target of the detection, is not promised to be<br \/>\ndetectable by each measure. We study a fundamental problem in the process of node grouping discovery: Given a particular grouping in a network, whether and to what extent it can be discovered with a given fitness measure. We propose two approaches of testing the detectability, namely ranking-based and correlation-based randomization tests. Our methods are evaluated on both synthetic and real datasets, which shows the proposed methods can effectively predict the detectability<br \/>\nof groupings of various types, and support explorative process of node grouping discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In typical studies of node grouping detection, the grouping is presumed to have a certain type of correlation with the network structure (e.g., densely connected groups of nodes that are loosely connected in between). 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