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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 focus on the detection of communities in multi-scale networks, namely networks made of different levels of organization and in which modules exist at different scales. It is first shown that methods based on modularity are not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-14 Renaud Lambiotte

Networks have become a key approach to understanding systems of interacting objects, unifying the study of diverse phenomena including biological organisms and human society. One crucial step when studying the structure and dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-16 Yong-Yeol Ahn , James P. Bagrow , Sune Lehmann

Community detection in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

Community detection refers to the task of discovering closely related subgraphs to understand the networks. However, traditional community detection algorithms fail to pinpoint a particular kind of community. This limits its applicability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Caihua Shan , Yiheng Sun , Yangyong Zhu , Philip S. Yu

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

In this paper, we first discuss the definition of modularity (Q) used as a metric for community quality and then we review the modularity maximization approaches which were used for community detection in the last decade. Then, we discuss…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-17 Mingming Chen , Konstantin Kuzmin , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

This paper focuses on the identification of overlapping communities, allowing nodes to simultaneously belong to several communities, in a decentralised way. To that aim it proposes LOCNeSs, an algorithm specially designed to run in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Maël Canu , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Adrien Revault d'Allonnes

Community detection is a well established method for studying the meso scale structure of social networks. Applying a community detection algorithm results in a division of a network into communities that is often used to inspect and reason…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Dafne E. van Kuppevelt , Rena Bakhshi , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Frank W. Takes

We propose a new local, deterministic and parameter-free algorithm that detects fuzzy and crisp overlapping communities in a weighted network and simultaneously reveals their hierarchy. Using a local fitness function, the algorithm greedily…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-17 Frank Havemann , Michael Heinz , Alexander Struck , Jochen Gläser

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

One of the most widely studied problem in mining and analysis of complex networks is the detection of community structures. The problem has been extensively studied by researchers due to its high utility and numerous applications in various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi , Guy Melançon

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

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

Considering a clique as a conservative definition of community structure, we examine how graph partitioning algorithms interact with cliques. Many popular community-finding algorithms partition the entire graph into non-overlapping…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-15 Fergal Reid , Aaron McDaid , Neil Hurley

Community identification is a long-standing challenge in the modern network science, especially for very large scale networks containing millions of nodes. In this paper, we propose a new metric to quantify the structural similarity between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-05-31 Biao Xiang , En-Hong Chen , Tao Zhou

In this paper, a new comparative definition for community in networks is proposed and the corresponding detecting algorithm is given. A community is defined as a set of nodes, which satisfy that each node's degree inside the community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanqing Hu , Hongbin Chen , Peng Zhang , Menghui Li , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden communities from the local perspective, and propose a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Meng Wang , Boyu Li , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

A flow approach to community detection in complex network and multilayer network systems is proposed. Two methods have been developed to search for communities in a network system (NS). The first of them is based on the calculation of flow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-21 Olexandr Polishchuk

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