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Complex networks represent interactions between entities. They appear in various contexts such as sociology, biology, etc., and they generally contain highly connected subgroups called communities. Community detection is a well-studied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Romain Campigotto , Patricia Conde Céspedes , Jean-Loup Guillaume

We focus on the detection of communities in multi-scale networks, namely networks made of different levels of organization and in which modules exist at different scales. It is first shown that methods based on modularity are not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-14 Renaud Lambiotte

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

The problem of community detection is relevant in many disciplines of science and modularity optimization is the widely accepted method for this purpose. It has recently been shown that this approach presents a resolution limit by which it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 A. D. Medus , C. O. Dorso

Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Wei Li , Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk , Kyle Godbey , Horst Stöcker

Modularity was introduced as a measure of goodness for the community structure induced by a partition of the set of vertices in a graph. Then, it also became an objective function used to find good partitions, with high success.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-08-25 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Beiró Mariano Gastón , Jorge Rodolfo Busch

The study of network structure is pervasive in sociology, biology, computer science, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the algorithmic detection of cohesive groups of nodes called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Huiyi Hu , Thomas Laurent , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

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

Many networks including social networks, computer networks, and biological networks are found to divide naturally into communities of densely connected individuals. Finding community structure is one of fundamental problems in network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Modularity was introduced by Newman and Girvan in 2004 and is used as a measure of community structure of networks represented by graphs. In our work we study modularity of the random intersection graph model first considered by Karo\'nski,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Katarzyna Rybarczyk

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

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

Here we propose a new method to compare the modular structure of a pair of node-aligned networks. The majority of current methods, such as normalized mutual information, compare two node partitions derived from a community detection…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-14 Daniel Straulino , Mattie Landman , Neave O'Clery

This paper introduces the notion of co-modularity, to co-cluster observations of bipartite networks into co-communities. The task of co-clustering is to group together nodes of one type with nodes of another type, according to the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-09 Thomas E. Bartlett

Community detection is one of the pivotal tools for discovering the structure of complex networks. Majority of community detection methods rely on optimization of certain quality functions characterizing the proposed community structure.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Belyi , Carlo Ratti

The ubiquity of modular structure in real-world complex networks is being the focus of attention in many trials to understand the interplay between network topology and functionality. The best approaches to the identification of modular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-07-30 A. Arenas , J. Duch , A. Fernandez , S. Gomez

Many bipartite networks exhibit hierarchical community structure, but existing community detection methods are not well-suited for detecting hierarchy. They also do not effectively handle weighted bipartite networks. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tania Ghosh , Kevin E. Bassler

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

We propose a novel method to find the community structure in complex networks based on an extremal optimization of the value of modularity. The method outperforms the optimal modularity found by the existing algorithms in the literature. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Duch , A. Arenas

Because networks can be used to represent many complex systems, they have attracted considerable attention in physics, computer science, sociology, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Huiyi Hu , Yves van Gennip , Blake Hunter , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi