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We consider the problem of fuzzy community detection in networks, which complements and expands the concept of overlapping community structure. Our approach allows each vertex of the graph to belong to multiple communities at the same time,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-10 Tamás Nepusz , Andrea Petróczi , László Négyessy , Fülöp Bazsó

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

Modularity-based algorithms used for community detection have been increasing in recent years. Modularity and its application have been generating controversy since some authors argue it is not a metric without disadvantages. It has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

We study the necessary condition to detect, by means of spectral modularity optimization, the ground-truth partition in networks generated according to the weighted planted-partition model with two equally sized communities. We analytically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-03 Filippo Radicchi , Filipi N. Silva , Alessandro Flammini , Santo Fortunato , Sadamori Kojaku

Community detection in networks refers to the process of seeking strongly internally connected groups of nodes which are weakly externally connected. In this work, we introduce and study a community definition based on internal edge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-15 Richard K. Darst David R. Reichman Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Aiming at improving the efficiency and accuracy of community detection in complex networks, we proposed a new algorithm, which is based on the idea that communities could be detected from subnetworks by comparing the internal and external…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-20 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Weibing Deng

How can we accurately compare different community detection algorithms? These algorithms cluster nodes in a given network, and their performance is often validated on benchmark networks with explicit ground-truth communities. Given the lack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Justin Fagnan , Afra Abnar , Reihaneh Rabbany , Osmar R. Zaiane

Heterogeneity characterises real-world networks, where nodes show a broad range of different topological features. However, nodes also tend to organise into communities -- subsets of nodes that are sparsely inter-connected but are densely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-21 Juan Gancio , Nicolás Rubido

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems in the study of network data. Most existing community detection approaches only consider edge information as inputs, and the output could be suboptimal when nodal information is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-13 Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

Finding groups of connected individuals in large graphs with tens of thousands or more nodes has received considerable attention in academic research. In this paper, we analyze three main issues with respect to the recent influx of papers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker

Discovering communities in complex networks means grouping nodes similar to each other, to uncover latent information about them. There are hundreds of different algorithms to solve the community detection task, each with its own…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Michele Coscia

In this paper we apply theoretical and practical results from facility location theory to the problem of community detection in networks. The result is an algorithm that computes bounds on a minimization variant of local modularity. We also…

There has been a surge of interest in community detection in homogeneous single-relational networks which contain only one type of nodes and edges. However, many real-world systems are naturally described as heterogeneous multi-relational…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Xin Liu , Weichu Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

We have found that known community identification algorithms produce inconsistent communities when the node ordering changes at input. We propose two metrics to quantify the level of consistency across multiple runs of an algorithm:…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-10 Haewoon Kwak , Young-Ho Eom , Yoonchan Choi , Hawoong Jeong , Sue Moon

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

One important issue implied by the finite nature of real-world networks regards the identification of their more external (border) and internal nodes. The present work proposes a formal and objective definition of these properties, founded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Bruno A. N. Travencolo , Matheus P. Viana , Luciano da F. Costa

Network structures, consisting of nodes and edges, have applications in almost all subjects. A set of nodes is called a community if the nodes have strong interrelations. Industries (including cell phone carriers and online social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Haoye Lu , Amiya Nayak

The "clumpiness" matrix of a network is used to develop a method to identify its community structure. A "projection space" is constructed from the eigenvectors of the clumpiness matrix and a border line is defined using some kind of angular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Ali Faqeeh , Keivan Aghababaei Samani