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Community detection is one of the most active fields in complex networks analysis, due to its potential value in practical applications. Many works inspired by different paradigms are devoted to the development of algorithmic solutions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi

We present a network community-detection technique based on properties that emerge from a nature-inspired system of aligning particles. Initially, each vertex is assigned a random-direction unit vector. A nonlinear dynamic law is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Filipe Alves Neto Verri , Roberto Alves Gueleri , Qiusheng Zheng , Junbao Zhang , Liang Zhao

To unravel the driving patterns of networks, the most popular models rely on community detection algorithms. However, these approaches are generally unable to reproduce the structural features of the network. Therefore, attempts are always…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Martina Contisciani , Hadiseh Safdari , Caterina De Bacco

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Piotr Bródka , Tomasz Filipowski , Przemysław Kazienko

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

A precise definition of what constitutes a community in networks has remained elusive. Consequently, network scientists have compared community detection algorithms on benchmark networks with a particular form of community structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Martin Rosvall , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte

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

We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of edges connecting them. Previous work indicates that a robust approach to this problem is the maximization of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Common experience suggests that many networks might possess community structure - division of vertices into groups, with a higher density of edges within groups than between them. Here we describe a new computer algorithm that detects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman , M. Girvan

Despite the prevalence of community detection algorithms, relatively less work has been done on understanding whether a network is indeed modular and how resilient the community structure is under perturbations. To address this issue, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-11 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Sriram Srinivasan , Niloy Ganguly , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

This paper considers the problem of algorithm selection for community detection. The aim of community detection is to identify sets of nodes in a network which are more interconnected relative to their connectivity to the rest of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-10-27 Leto Peel

Community detection, the decomposition of a graph into essential building blocks, has been a core research topic in network science over the past years. Since a precise notion of what constitutes a community has remained evasive, community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Martin Rosvall , Renaud Lambiotte

Many algorithms have been proposed for predicting missing edges in networks, but they do not usually take account of which edges are missing. We focus on networks which have missing edges of the form that is likely to occur in real…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Cycles are ubiquitous in various networks such as social, biological, and technological systems, where they play a significant functional and dynamical role. This paper proposes a node similarity measure based on minimal simple cycles,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yang

Community structure is common in many real networks, with nodes clustered in groups sharing the same connections patterns. While many community detection methods have been developed for networks with binary edges, few of them are applicable…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-13 Andressa Cerqueira , Elizaveta Levina

Detecting and analyzing dense groups or communities from social and information networks has attracted immense attention over last one decade due to its enormous applicability in different domains. Community detection is an ill-defined…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Ayushi Dalmia , Animesh Mukherjee , Niloy Ganguly

Many real networks that are inferred or collected from data are incomplete due to missing edges. Missing edges can be inherent to the dataset (Facebook friend links will never be complete) or the result of sampling (one may only have access…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Matthew Burgess , Eytan Adar , Michael Cafarella

The relationship of friends in social networks can be strong or weak. Some research works have shown that a close relationship between friends conducts good community structure. Based on this result, we propose an effective method in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Xiaoping Fan , Zhijie Chen , Fei Cai , Jinsong Wu , Shengzong Liu , Zhining Liao , Zhifang Liao

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

We propose a new local community detection algorithm that finds communities by identifying borderlines between them using boundary nodes. Our method performs label propagation for community detection, where nodes decide their labels based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol