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Label propagation has proven to be a fast method for detecting communities in complex networks. Recent work has also improved the accuracy and stability of the basic algorithm, however, a general approach is still an open issue. We propose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-03 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Label propagation has proven to be a fast method for detecting communities in large complex networks. Recent developments have also improved the accuracy of the approach, however, a general algorithm is still an open issue. We present an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-21 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Community detection is an essential task in network analysis as it helps identify groups and patterns within a network. High-speed community detection algorithms are necessary to analyze large-scale networks in a reasonable amount of time.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Subhajit Sahu

Membership diversity is a characteristic aspect of social networks in which a person may belong to more than one social group. For this reason, discovering overlapping structures is necessary for realistic social analysis. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

A modularity-specialized label propagation algorithm (LPAm) for detecting network communities was recently proposed. This promising algorithm offers some desirable qualities. However, LPAm favors community divisions where all communities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-22 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Community detection is a key aspect of network analysis, as it allows for the identification of groups and patterns within a network. With the ever-increasing size of networks, it is crucial to have fast algorithms to analyze them…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Subhajit Sahu

In complex networks, especially social networks, networks could be divided into disjoint partitions that the ratio between the number of internal edges (the edges between the vertices within same partition) to the number of outer edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Hamid Shahrivari Joghan , Alireza Bagheri , Meysam Azad

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

Algorithms for detecting communities in complex networks are generally unsupervised, relying solely on the structure of the network. However, these methods can often fail to uncover meaningful groupings that reflect the underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Elham Alghamdi , Derek Greene

Community detection is the problem of identifying natural divisions in networks. Efficient parallel algorithms for this purpose are crucial in various applications, particularly as datasets grow to substantial scales. This technical report…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Subhajit Sahu

Community detection is the task of identifying clusters or groups of nodes in a network where nodes within the same group are more connected with each other than with nodes in different groups. It has practical uses in identifying similar…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-08 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

Many networks display community structure which identifies groups of nodes within which connections are denser than between them. Detecting and characterizing such community structure, which is known as community detection, is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Sisi Liu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Many systems can be described using graphs, or networks. Detecting communities in these networks can provide information about the underlying structure and functioning of the original systems. Yet this detection is a complex task and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

We study the behavior of a label propagation algorithm (LPA) on the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal{G}(n,p)$. Initially, given a network, each vertex starts with a random label in the interval $[0,1]$. Then, in each round of LPA,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Marcos Kiwi , Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche , Paweł Prałat

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Label propagation is a heuristic method initially proposed for community detection in networks, while the method can be adopted also for other types of network clustering and partitioning. Among all the approaches and techniques described…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Lovro Šubelj

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

We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Community detection in network analysis aims at partitioning nodes in a network into $K$ disjoint communities. Most currently available algorithms assume that $K$ is known, but choosing a correct $K$ is generally very difficult for real…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-03 Chong Chen , Ruibin Xi , Nan Lin

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang