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Community detection in graphs identifies groups of nodes with denser connections within the groups than between them, and while existing studies often focus on optimizing detection performance, memory constraints become critical when…

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Modularity based community detection encompasses a number of widely used, efficient heuristics for identification of structure in networks. Recently, a belief propagation approach to modularity optimization provided a useful guide for…

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We apply our recent work on empirical estimates of quantum speedups to the practical task of community detection in complex networks. We design several quantum variants of a popular classical algorithm -- the Louvain algorithm for community…

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Graph clustering and community detection are central problems in modern data mining. The increasing need for analyzing billion-scale data calls for faster and more scalable algorithms for these problems. There are certain trade-offs between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

Optimizing statistical measures for community structure is one of the most popular strategies for community detection, but many of them lack the flexibility of resolution and thus are incompatible with multi-scale communities of networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Ju Xiang , Yan Zhang , Jian-Ming Li , Hui-Jia Li , Min Li

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

This study presents a novel approach that synergizes community detection algorithms with various Graph Neural Network (GNN) models to bolster link prediction in scientific literature networks. By integrating the Louvain community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chunjiang Liu , Yikun Han , Haiyun Xu , Shihan Yang , Kaidi Wang , Yongye Su

Many systems can be described using graphs, or networks. Detecting communities in these networks can provide information about the underlying structure and functioning of the original systems. Yet this detection is a complex task and a…

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The global energy transition towards distributed, smaller-scale resources, such as decentralized generation and flexible assets like storage and shiftable loads, demands novel control structures aligned with the emerging network…

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Finding communities or clusters in social networks is a fa- mous topic in social network analysis. Most algorithms are limited to static snapshots, so they cannot handle dynamics within the underlying graph. In this paper we present a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Pascal Held , Benjamin Krause , Rudolf Kruse

In this article, we consider the problem of community detection in signed networks. We propose SignedLouvain, an adaptation of the Louvain method to maximise signed modularity, efficiently taking advantage of the structure induced by signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-30 John N. Pougué-Biyong , Renaud Lambiotte

Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

Community detection has attracted increasing attention during the past decade, and many algorithms have been proposed to find the underlying community structure in a given network. Many of these algorithms are based on modularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Sahar Zarmehri , Soundar Kumara

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

The representation of data and its relationships using networks is prevalent in many research fields such as computational biology, medical informatics and social networks. Recently, complex networks models have been introduced to better…

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Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

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With the emergence of social networks, online platforms dedicated to different use cases, and sensor networks, the emergence of large-scale graph community detection has become a steady field of research with real-world applications.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Elena-Simona Apostol , Adrian-Cosmin Cojocaru , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

When searching for communities in networks, domain experts may have some prior expectations about the size of communities. Yet, community detection methods normally do not optimize communities under cluster size constraints.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-26 Filipi N. Silva , Samin Aref , Vincent Traag , Santo Fortunato

A community within a network is a group of vertices densely connected to each other but less connected to the vertices outside. The problem of detecting communities in large networks plays a key role in a wide range of research areas, e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

Community detection is often used to understand the structure of large and complex networks. One of the most popular algorithms for uncovering community structure is the so-called Louvain algorithm. We show that this algorithm has a major…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Vincent Traag , Ludo Waltman , Nees Jan van Eck