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Identification of communities in complex networks has become an effective means to analysis of complex systems. It has broad applications in diverse areas such as social science, engineering, biology and medicine. Finding communities of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Dongxiao He , Di Jin , Weixiong Zhang

Statistical significance of network clustering has been an unresolved problem since it was observed that community detection algorithms produce false positives even in random graphs. After a phase transition between undetectable and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jeremi K. Ochab

When we detect communities in temporal networks it is important to ask questions about how they change in time. Normalised Mutual Information (NMI) has been used to measure the similarity of communities when the nodes on a network do not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Peijie Zhong , Cheick Ba , Raúl Mondragón , Richard Clegg

A multiplex network models different modes of interaction among same-type entities. In this article we provide a taxonomy of community detection algorithms in multiplex networks. We characterize the different algorithms based on various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Matteo Magnani , Obaida Hanteer , Roberto Interdonato , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tagarelli

Finding communities in graphs is one of the most well-studied problems in data mining and social-network analysis. In many real applications, the underlying graph does not have a clear community structure. In those cases, selecting a single…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Nikolaj Tatti , Aristides Gionis

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

Understanding community structure in social media is critical due to its broad applications such as friend recommendations, link predictions and collaborative filtering. However, there is no widely accepted definition of community in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Paul Wagenseller , Feng Wang

In this paper, we consider networks consisting of a finite number of non-overlapping communities. To extract these communities, the interaction between pairs of nodes may be sampled from a large available data set, which allows a given node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

We present a novel method for detecting communities in bipartite networks. Based on an extension of the $k$-clique community detection algorithm, we demonstrate how modular structure in bipartite networks presents itself as overlapping…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-07-22 Sune Lehmann , Martin Schwartz , Lars Kai Hansen

Community structure is one of the key properties of complex networks and plays a crucial role in their topology and function. While an impressive amount of work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Andrea Lancichinetti , Mikko Kivela , Jari Saramaki , Santo Fortunato

Communities are clusters of nodes with a higher than average density of internal connections. Their detection is of great relevance to better understand the structure and hierarchies present in a network. Modularity has become a standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Lancichinetti , José J. Ramasco

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

In this paper we propose weighted symmetric binary matrix factorization (wSBMF) framework to detect overlapping communities in bipartite networks, which describe relationships between two types of nodes. Our method improves performance by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Most methods proposed to uncover communities in complex networks rely on their structural properties. Here we introduce the stability of a network partition, a measure of its quality defined in terms of the statistical properties of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-18 R. Lambiotte , J. -C. Delvenne , M. Barahona

Nodes in real-world networks are usually organized in local modules. These groups, called communities, are intuitively defined as sub-graphs with a larger density of internal connections than of external links. In this work, we introduce a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-21 Andrea Lancichinetti , Filippo Radicchi , Jose J. Ramasco

The analysis and detection of communities in network structures are becoming increasingly relevant for understanding social behavior. One of the principal challenges in this field is the complexity of existing algorithms. The Girvan-Newman…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Julio-Omar Palacio-Niño , Fernando Berzal

Discovering overlapping community structures is a crucial step to understanding the structure and dynamics of many networks. In this paper we develop a symmetric binary matrix factorization model (SBMF) to identify overlapping communities.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Yong Wang , Yong-Yeol Ahn

We investigate the emergence and persistence of communities through a recently proposed mechanism of adaptive rewiring in coevolutionary networks. We characterize the topological structures arising in a coevolutionary network subject to an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 J. C. González-Avella , M. G. Cosenza , J. L. Herrera , K. Tucci

In this paper, matching pairs of random graphs under the community structure model is considered. The problem emerges naturally in various applications such as privacy, image processing and DNA sequencing. A pair of randomly generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 F. Shirani , S. Garg , E. Erkip

A challenging problem in the study of complex systems is that of resolving, without prior information, the emergent, mesoscopic organization determined by groups of units whose dynamical activity is more strongly correlated internally than…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-04-21 Mel MacMahon , Diego Garlaschelli