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We study networks that display community structure -- groups of nodes within which connections are unusually dense. Using methods from random matrix theory, we calculate the spectra of such networks in the limit of large size, and hence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Raj Rao Nadakuditi , M. E. J. Newman

We present a method that allows for the discovery of communities within graphs of arbitrary size in times that scale linearly with their size. This method avoids edge cutting and is based on notions of voltage drops across networks that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang Wu , Bernardo A. Huberman

Community detection is a fundamental problem in social network analysis consisting in unsupervised dividing social actors (nodes in a social graph) with certain social connections (edges in a social graph) into densely knitted and highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Petr Chunaev

Community detection is a core tool for analyzing large realworld graphs. It is often used to derive additional local features of vertices and edges that will be used to perform a downstream task, yet the impact of community detection on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs. Angelini et al. (2015) conjectured the existence of a sharp threshold on model parameters for community detection in sparse hypergraphs generated by a hypergraph…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Soumik Pal , Yizhe Zhu

We discuss a variant of `blind' community detection, in which we aim to partition an unobserved network from the observation of a (dynamical) graph signal defined on the network. We consider a scenario where our observed graph signals are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Michael T. Schaub , Santiago Segarra , Hoi-To Wai

A recently introduced novel community detection strategy is based on a label propagation algorithm (LPA) which uses the diffusion of information in the network to identify communities. Studies of LPAs showed that the strategy is effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano

While there exist a wide range of effective methods for community detection in networks, most of them require one to know in advance how many communities one is looking for. Here we present a method for estimating the number of communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Maria A. Riolo , George T. Cantwell , Gesine Reinert , M. E. J. Newman

Given a time-evolving network, how can we detect communities over periods of high internal and low external interactions? To address this question we generalize traditional local community detection in graphs to the setting of dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Daniel J. DiTursi , Gaurav Ghosh , Petko Bogdanov

We consider the problem of community detection in the Stochastic Block Model with a finite number $K$ of communities of sizes linearly growing with the network size $n$. This model consists in a random graph such that each pair of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

Community detection is considered as a fundamental task in analyzing social networks. Even though many techniques have been proposed for community detection, most of them are based exclusively on the connectivity structures. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Hadi Zare , Mahdi Hajiabadi , Mahdi Jalili

As networks continue to increase in size, current methods must be capable of handling large numbers of nodes and edges in order to be practically relevant. Instead of working directly with the entire (large) network, analyzing sub-networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Eric Yanchenko

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

Network community detection is usually considered as an unsupervised learning problem. Given a network, the aim is to partition it using some general purpose algorithm. In this paper we instead treat community detection as a hypothesis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rudy Arthur

In the last few years many real-world networks have been found to show a so-called community structure organization. Much effort has been devoted in the literature to develop methods and algorithms that can efficiently highlight this hidden…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Michele Coscia , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi

Community detection has become a fundamental operation in numerous graph-theoretic applications. It is used to reveal natural divisions that exist within real world networks without imposing prior size or cardinality constraints on the set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Hao Lu , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman

There has been considerable recent interest in algorithms for finding communities in networks - groups of vertex within which connections are dense (frequent), but between which connections are sparser (rare). Most of the current literature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Adrien Ickowicz

Community detection is a central task in graph analytics. Given the substantial growth in graph size, scalability in community detection continues to be an unresolved challenge. Recently, alongside established methods like Louvain and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tianyi Chen , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

For a given graph, $G$, let $A$ be the adjacency matrix, $D$ is the diagonal matrix of degrees, $L' = D - A$ is the combinatorial Laplacian, and $L = D^{-1/2}L'D^{-1/2}$ is the normalized Laplacian. Recently, the eigenvectors corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Kelly Yancey , Matthew Yancey

Embedding dyadic data into a latent space has long been a popular approach to modeling networks of all kinds. While clustering has been done using this approach for static networks, this paper gives two methods of community detection within…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-19 Daniel K. Sewell , Yuguo Chen