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Recognizing number of communities and detecting community structures of complex network are discussed in this paper. As a visual and feasible algorithm, block model has been successfully applied to detect community structures in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-20 Hongjue Wang , Tao Wang

We introduce a novel method for identifying the modular structures of a network based on the maximization of an objective function: the ratio association. This cost function arises when the communities detection problem is described in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Leonardo Angelini , Stefano Boccaletti , Daniele Marinazzo , Mario Pellicoro , Sebastiano Stramaglia

The problem and implications of community detection in networks have raised a huge attention, for its important applications in both natural and social sciences. A number of algorithms has been developed to solve this problem, addressing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Cristian Bisconti , Angelo Corallo , Laura Fortunato , Antonio A. Gentile

We consider two new problems regarding the impact of edge addition or removal on the modularity of partitions (or community structures) in a network. The first problem seeks to add edges to enforce that a desired partition is the partition…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Daniel Kosmas , John E. Mitchell , Thomas C. Sharkey , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

The idea underlying the modal formulation of density-based clustering is to associate groups with the regions around the modes of the probability density function underlying the data. This correspondence between clusters and dense regions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Giovanna Menardi , Domenico De Stefano

In this work we address the problem of detecting overlapping communities in social networks. Because the word "community" is an ambiguous term, it is necessary to quantify what it means to be a community within the context of a particular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Michael Brutz , Francois G. Meyer

Community structures detection is one of the fundamental problems in complex network analysis towards understanding the topology structures of the network and the functions of it. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Zhenhai Chang , Hui-Min Cheng , Chao Yan , Xianjun Yin , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Dynamic community detection is crucial for elucidating the temporal evolution of social structures, information dissemination, and interactive behaviors within complex networks. Nonnegative matrix factorization provides an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hao Fang , Qu Wang , Qicong Hu , Hao Wu

The study of the sub-structure of complex networks is of major importance to relate topology and functionality. Many efforts have been devoted to the analysis of the modular structure of networks using the quality function known as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-07-01 Belkacem Serrour , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gomez

Community detection in complex networks is a topic of high interest in many fields. Bipartite networks are a special type of complex networks in which nodes are decomposed into two disjoint sets, and only nodes between the two sets can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Zhenping Li , Rui-Sheng Wang , Shihua Zhang , Xiang-Sun Zhang

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

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

In a graph or complex network, communities and anti-communities are node sets whose modularity attains extremely large values, positive and negative, respectively. We consider the simultaneous detection of communities and anti-communities,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Dario Fasino , Francesco Tudisco

In this paper, we propose MOUFLON, a fairness-aware, modularity-based community detection method that allows adjusting the importance of partition quality over fairness outcomes. MOUFLON uses a novel proportional balance fairness metric,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Georgios Panayiotou , Anand Mathew Muthukulam Simon , Matteo Magnani , Ece Calikus

Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses an objective function that captures the intuition of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Michael W. Mahoney

A new method for identifying soft communities in networks is proposed. Reference nodes, either selected using a priori information about the network or according to relevant node measurements, are obtained. Distance vectors between each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-05 Paulo J. P. de Souza , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa

The maximization of generalized modularity performs well on networks in which the members of all communities are statistically indistinguishable from each other. However, there is no theory bounding the maximization performance in more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaoyan Lu , Brendan Cross , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Quantum adiabatic optimization has long been expected to outperform classical methods in solving NP-type problems. While this has been proven in certain experiments, its main applications still reside in academic problems where the size of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Joan Falcó-Roget , Kacper Jurek , Barbara Wojtarowicz , Karol Capała , Katarzyna Rycerz