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Over the past decade, community detection in overlapping un-weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities, has been one of the most popular topics in modern network science. However, community detection in overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Huan Qing

Community structure exists in many real-world networks and has been reported being related to several functional properties of the networks. The conventional approach was partitioning nodes into communities, while some recent studies start…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-15 Youngdo Kim , Hawoong Jeong

We propose an algorithm for detecting communities of links in networks which uses local information, is based on a new evaluation function, and allows for pervasive overlaps of communities. The complexity of the clustering task requires the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Frank Havemann , Jochen Gläser , Michael Heinz

Characterizing large-scale organization in networks, including multilayer networks, is one of the most prominent topics in network science and is important for many applications. One type of mesoscale feature is community structure, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-10 A. Roxana Pamfil , Sam D. Howison , Renaud Lambiotte , Mason A. Porter

Community discovery in the social network is one of the tremendously expanding areas which earn interest among researchers for the past one decade. There are many already existing algorithms. However, new seed-based algorithms establish an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Belfin R , E. Grace Mary Kanaga , Piotr Bródka

Many real-world complex networks exhibit a community structure, in which the modules correspond to actual functional units. Identifying these communities is a key challenge for scientists. A common approach is to search for the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-22 Federico Botta , Charo I. del Genio

We propose an algorithm for finding overlapping community structure in very large networks. The algorithm is based on the label propagation technique of Raghavan, Albert, and Kumara, but is able to detect communities that overlap. Like the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-15 Steve Gregory

Research into detection of dense communities has recently attracted increasing attention within network science, various metrics for detection of such communities have been proposed. The most popular metric -- Modularity -- is based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-30 Ke-ke Shang , Michael Small , Yan Wang , Di Yin , Shu Li

Many social networks and complex systems are found to be naturally divided into clusters of densely connected nodes, known as community structure (CS). Finding CS is one of fundamental yet challenging topics in network science. One of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Thang N. Dinh , Xiang Li , My T. Thai

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the community structure found by community detection algorithms. However, modularity maximization suffers from two opposite yet coexisting problems: in some cases, it tends to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Mingming Chen , Tommy Nguyen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Community structure is one of the most prominent features of complex networks. Community structure detection is of great importance to provide insights into the network structure and functionalities. Most proposals focus on static networks.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Souâad Boudebza , Rémy Cazabet , Faiçal Azouaou , Omar Nouali

Modularity, since its introduction, has remained one of the most widely used metrics to assess the quality of community structure in a complex network. However the resolution limit problem associated with modularity limits its applicability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-13 Tianlong Chen , Pramesh Singh , Kevin E. Bassler

With invaluable theoretical and practical benefits, the problem of partitioning networks for community structures has attracted significant research attention in scientific and engineering disciplines. In literature, Newman's modularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wenye Li

The conventional notion of community that favors a high ratio of internal edges to outbound edges becomes invalid when each vertex participates in multiple communities. Such a behavior is commonplace in social networks. The significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , Pak Ming Hui

In the last few years, there has been a great interest in detecting overlapping communities in complex networks, which is understood as dense groups of nodes featuring a low outbound density. To date, most methods used to compute such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Adrien Friggeri , Guillaume Chelius , Eric Fleury

Community structure is one of the key properties of real-world complex networks. It plays a crucial role in their behaviors and topology. While an important work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Malek Jebabli , Hocine Cherifi , Chantal Cherifi , Atef Hamouda

The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yudong Sun , Bogdan Danila , Kresimir Josic , Kevin E. Bassler

We present a new algorithm for community detection. The algorithm uses random walks to embed the graph in a space of measures, after which a modification of $k$-means in that space is applied. The algorithm is therefore fast and easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor

It is shown how to construct a clique graph in which properties of cliques of a fixed order in a given graph are represented by vertices in a weighted graph. Various definitions and motivations for these weights are given. The detection of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-01-04 T. S. Evans