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This work will appear as a chapter in a forthcoming volume titled `Topics in Probabilistic Graph Theory'. For a given graph $G$, each partition of the vertices has a modularity score, with higher values indicating that the partition better…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Colin McDiarmid , Fiona Skerman

Given a graph of interactions, a module (also called a community or cluster) is a subset of nodes whose fitness is a function of the statistical significance of the pairwise interactions of nodes in the module. The topic of this paper is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Bhaskar DasGupta , Devendra Desai

Modularity is a parameter indicating the presence of community structure in the graph. Nowadays it lies at the core of widely used clustering algorithms. We study the modularity of the most classical random graph, binomial $G(n,p)$. In 2020…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Katarzyna Rybarczyk , Małgorzata Sulkowska

A basic question in network community detection is how modular a given network is. This is usually addressed by evaluating the quality of partitions detected in the network. The Girvan-Newman (GN) modularity function is the standard way to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-25 Filipi N. Silva , Aiiad Albeshri , Vijey Thayananthan , Wadee Alhalabi , Santo Fortunato

Study of the cluster- or community structure of complex networks makes an important contribution to the understanding of networks at a functional level. Despite the many efforts, no definition of community has been agreed on and important…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-11 Joerg Reichardt , Stefan Bornholdt

We examine a community structure in random graphs of size $n$ and link probability $p/n$ determined with the Newman greedy optimization of modularity. Calculations show that for $p<1$ communities are nearly identical with clusters. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Adam Lipowski , Dorota Lipowska

In numerous networks, it is vital to identify communities consisting of closely joined groups of individuals. Such communities often reveal the role of the networks or primary properties of the individuals. In this perspective, Newman and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ghazal Ghajari , Hooshang Jazayeri-Rad , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfooli

Community structure represents the local organization of complex networks and the single most important feature to extract functional relationships between nodes. In the last years, the problem of community detection has been reformulated…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Santo Fortunato

For a given graph $G$, each partition of the vertices has a modularity score, with higher values indicating that the partition better captures community structure in $G$. The modularity $q^*(G)$ of the graph $G$ is defined to be the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Colin McDiarmid , Fiona Skerman

We show here that the problem of maximizing a family of quantitative functions, encompassing both the modularity (Q-measure) and modularity density (D-measure), for community detection can be uniformly understood as a combinatoric…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Q. Jiang , Lisa J. McQuay

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

Suppose that there is an unknown underlying graph $G$ on a large vertex set, and we can test only a proportion of the possible edges to check whether they are present in $G$. If $G$ has high modularity, is the observed graph $G'$ likely to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Colin McDiarmid , Fiona Skerman

In this paper, we first discuss the definition of modularity (Q) used as a metric for community quality and then we review the modularity maximization approaches which were used for community detection in the last decade. Then, we discuss…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-17 Mingming Chen , Konstantin Kuzmin , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Modularity maximization is the most popular technique for the detection of community structure in graphs. The resolution limit of the method is supposedly solvable with the introduction of modified versions of the measure, with tunable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-14 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can be trained to detect communities within a graph by learning from the duality of feature and connectivity information. Currently, the common approach for optimisation of GNNs is to use comparisons to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

One of the most relevant tasks in network analysis is the detection of community structures, or clustering. Most popular techniques for community detection are based on the maximization of a quality function called modularity, which in turn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Dario Fasino , Francesco Tudisco

Nodal theorems for generalized modularity matrices ensure that the cluster located by the positive entries of the leading eigenvector of various modularity matrices induces a connected subgraph. In this paper we obtain lower bounds for the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Dario Fasino , Francesco Tudisco

Modularity maximization is one of the state-of-the-art methods for community detection that has gained popularity in the last decade. Yet it suffers from the resolution limit problem by preferring under certain conditions large communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Xiaoyan Lu , Konstantin Kuzmin , Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

Community partitioning is crucial in network analysis, with modularity optimization being the prevailing technique. However, traditional modularity-based methods often overlook fairness, a critical aspect in real-world applications. To…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yufeng Wang , Yiguang Bai , Tianqing Zhu , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jing Yuan
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