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Community structures are an important feature of many social, biological and technological networks. Here we study a variation on the method for detecting such communities proposed by Girvan and Newman and based on the idea of using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Santo Fortunato , Vito Latora , Massimo Marchiori

Identifying community structure can be a potent tool in the analysis and understanding of the structure of complex networks. Up to now, methods for evaluating the performance of identification algorithms use ad-hoc networks with communities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Leon Danon , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

The analysis and detection of communities in network structures are becoming increasingly relevant for understanding social behavior. One of the principal challenges in this field is the complexity of existing algorithms. The Girvan-Newman…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Julio-Omar Palacio-Niño , Fernando Berzal

In dynamic complex networks, entities interact and form network communities that evolve over time. Among the many static Community Detection (CD) solutions, the modularity-based Louvain, or Greedy Modularity Algorithm (GMA), is widely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Giordano Paoletti , Luca Gioacchini , Marco Mellia , Luca Vassio , Jussara M. Almeida

We consider a non-projective class of inhomogeneous random graph models with interpretable parameters and a number of interesting asymptotic properties. Using the results of Bollob\'as et al. [2007], we show that i) the class of models is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-04 Juho Lee , Lancelot F. James , Seungjin Choi , François Caron

Different kinds of random walks have proven to be useful in the study of structural properties of complex networks. Among them, the restricted dynamics of self-avoiding random walks (SAW), which visit only at most once each vertex in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-23 Guilherme de Guzzi Bagnato , José Ricardo Furlan Ronqui , Gonzalo Travieso

In this paper, we proposed a novel two-stage optimization method for network community partition, which is based on inherent network structure information. The introduced optimization approach utilizes the new network centrality measure of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Yiguang Bai , Sanyang Liu , Ke Yin , Jing Yuan

Nodes in real-world networks are repeatedly observed to form dense clusters, often referred to as communities. Methods to detect these groups of nodes usually maximize an objective function, which implicitly contains the definition of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-10 V. A. Traag , R. Aldecoa , J-C. Delvenne

We present an empirical study of different social networks obtained from digital repositories. Our analysis reveals the community structure and provides a useful visualising technique. We investigate the scaling properties of the community…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex Arenas , Leon Danon , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Pablo M. Gleiser , Roger Guimera

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

There are several metrics (Modularity, Mutual Information, Conductance, etc.) to evaluate the strength of graph clustering in large graphs. These metrics have great significance to measure the effectiveness and they are often used to find…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Md. Khaledur Rahman

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 formalize the problem of detecting a community in a network into testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. We observe an undirected and unweighted graph on N nodes. Under the null hypothesis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Ery Arias-Castro , Nicolas Verzelen

Community analysis algorithm proposed by Clauset, Newman, and Moore (CNM algorithm) finds community structure in social networks. Unfortunately, CNM algorithm does not scale well and its use is practically limited to networks whose sizes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ken Wakita , Toshiyuki Tsurumi

Clustering algorithms for large networks typically use modularity values to test which partitions of the vertex set better represent structure in the data. The modularity of a graph is the maximum modularity of a partition. We consider the…

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

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

This paper studies the problem of detecting the presence of a small dense community planted in a large Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal{G}(N,q)$, where the edge probability within the community exceeds $q$ by a constant factor.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bruce Hajek , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

One of the best-known models in network science is preferential attachment. In this model, the probability of attaching to a node depends on the degree of all nodes in the population, and thus depends on global information. In many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-22 Watson Levens , Alex Szorkovszky , David J. T. Sumpter

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

Much effort has gone into understanding the modular nature of complex networks. Communities, also known as clusters or modules, are typically considered to be densely interconnected groups of nodes that are only sparsely connected to other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-26 James P. Bagrow