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Community detection, or clustering, identifies groups of nodes in a graph that are more densely connected to each other than to the rest of the network. Given the size and dynamic nature of real-world graphs, efficient community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Subhajit Sahu

In this paper, we propose a novel parallel hierarchical Leiden-based algorithm for dynamic community detection. The algorithm, for a given batch update of edge insertions and deletions, partitions the network into communities using only a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Grigoriy Bokov , Aleksandr Konovalov , Anna Uporova , Stanislav Moiseev , Ivan Safonov , Alexander Radionov

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

Community detection is a fundamental problem in computational sciences with extensive applications in various fields. The most commonly used methods are the algorithms designed to maximize modularity over different partitions of the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Samin Aref , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Hriday Chheda

We introduce a new algorithm for modularity-based community detection in large networks. The algorithm, which we refer to as a smart local moving algorithm, takes advantage of a well-known local moving heuristic that is also used by other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 Ludo Waltman , Nees Jan van Eck

In this paper we present a novel strategy to discover the community structure of (possibly, large) networks. This approach is based on the well-know concept of network modularity optimization. To do so, our algorithm exploits a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

Modularity maximization has been a fundamental tool for understanding the community structure of a network, but the underlying optimization problem is nonconvex and NP-hard to solve. State-of-the-art algorithms like the Louvain or Leiden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

Community detection is expensive, and the cost generally depends at least linearly on the number of vertices in the graph. We propose working with a reduced graph that has many fewer nodes but nonetheless captures key community structure.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-14 Chengbin Peng , Tamara G. Kolda , Ali Pinar

This paper proposes a novel community detection method that integrates the Louvain algorithm with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enabling the discovery of communities without prior knowledge. Compared to most existing solutions, the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dalila Khettaf , Djamel Djenouri , Zeinab Rezaeifar , Youcef Djenouri

Complex networks usually expose community structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in the same group and relatively few with the nodes of the rest. This feature captures valuable information about the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Hiep H. Nguyen , Abdessamad Imine , Michael Rusinowitch

We introduce a novel algorithm of community detection that maintains dynamically a community structure of a large network that evolves with time. The algorithm maximizes the modularity index thanks to the construction of a randomized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Yves Darmaillac , Sébastien Loustau

In this work, we explore four common algorithms for community detection in networks, namely Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering, Divisive Hierarchical Clustering (Girvan-Newman), Fastgreedy and the Louvain Method. We investigate their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Niko Motschnig , Alexander Ramharter , Oliver Schweiger , Philipp Zabka , Klaus-Tycho Foerster

Community structure is an important structural property that extensively exists in various complex networks. In the past decade, much attention has been paid to the design of community-detection methods, but analyzing the behaviors of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Ju Xiang , Zhi-Zhong Wang , Hui-Jia Li , Yan Zhang , Fang Li , Li-Ping Dong , Jian-Ming Li

Community detection, which involves partitioning nodes within a network, has widespread applications across computational sciences. Modularity-based algorithms identify communities by attempting to maximize the modularity function across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Samin Aref , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh

We will present improvements to famous algorithms for community detection, namely Newman's spectral method algorithm and the Louvain algorithm. The Newman algorithm begins by treating the original graph as a single cluster, then repeats the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Duy Hieu Do , Thi Ha Duong Phan

Community detection is a discovery tool used by network scientists to analyze the structure of real-world networks. It seeks to identify natural divisions that may exist in the input networks that partition the vertices into coherent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Neda Zarayeneh , Ananth Kalyanaraman

Community detection is the problem of identifying densely connected clusters within a network. While the Louvain algorithm is commonly used for this task, it can produce internally-disconnected communities. To address this, the Leiden…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Subhajit Sahu

Many networks display community structure which identifies groups of nodes within which connections are denser than between them. Detecting and characterizing such community structure, which is known as community detection, is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Sisi Liu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community structure is one of the most important features of complex networks. Modularity-based methods for community detection typically rely on heuristic algorithms to optimize a specific community quality function. Such methods are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-02 Kun Gao , Xuezao Ren , Lei Zhou , Junfang Zhu

Community detection involves identifying natural divisions in networks, a crucial task for many large-scale applications. This report presents GVE-Louvain, one of the most efficient multicore implementations of the Louvain algorithm, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Subhajit Sahu