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MCMC Louvain for Online Community Detection

Social and Information Networks 2016-12-06 v1 Physics and Society Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce a novel algorithm of community detection that maintains dynamically a community structure of a large network that evolves with time. The algorithm maximizes the modularity index thanks to the construction of a randomized hierarchical clustering based on a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) method. Interestingly, it could be seen as a dynamization of Louvain algorithm (see Blondel et Al, 2008) where the aggregation step is replaced by the hierarchical instrumental probability.

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@article{arxiv.1612.01489,
  title  = {MCMC Louvain for Online Community Detection},
  author = {Yves Darmaillac and Sébastien Loustau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.01489},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages, in progress, experiments are coming

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