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As research into community finding in social networks progresses, there is a need for algorithms capable of detecting overlapping community structure. Many algorithms have been proposed in recent years that are capable of assigning each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-18 Aaron F. McDaid , Neil J. Hurley

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

When dealing with large graphs, community detection is a useful data triage tool that can identify subsets of the network that a data analyst should investigate. In an adversarial scenario, the graph may be manipulated to avoid scrutiny of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Benjamin A. Miller , Kevin Chan , Tina Eliassi-Rad

Community detection in network analysis has become more intricate due to the recent hike in social networks (Cai et al., 2024). This paper suggests a new approach named ELPMeans that strives to address this challenge. For community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Shahin Momenzadeh , Rojiar Pir Mohammadiani

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

Community detection refers to the task of discovering groups of vertices sharing similar properties or functions so as to understand the network data. With the recent development of deep learning, graph representation learning techniques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuting Jia , Qinqin Zhang , Weinan Zhang , Xinbing Wang

The characterization of network community structure has profound implications in several scientific areas. Therefore, testing the algorithms developed to establish the optimal division of a network into communities is a fundamental problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-02 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Discovery of communities in complex networks is a topic of considerable recent interest within the complex systems community. Due to the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of large-scale networks, like online social networks, the notion of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Nasheen Nur , Wenwen Dou , Xi Niu , Siddharth Krishnan , Noseong Park

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Community structure exists in many real-world networks and has been reported being related to several functional properties of the networks. The conventional approach was partitioning nodes into communities, while some recent studies start…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-15 Youngdo Kim , Hawoong Jeong

Most networks found in social and biochemical systems have modular structures. An important question prompted by the modularity of these networks is whether nodes can be said to belong to a single group. If they cannot, we would need to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-02 Erin N. Sawardecker , Marta Sales-Pardo , Luís A. Nunes Amaral

In some social and biological networks, the majority of nodes belong to multiple communities. It has recently been shown that a number of the algorithms that are designed to detect overlapping communities do not perform well in such highly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Conrad Lee , Fergal Reid , Aaron McDaid , Neil Hurley

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

In this paper, we propose a new measure for detecting overlap in multivariate Gaussian clusters. The aim of online learning from data streams is to create clustering, classification, or regression models that can adapt over time based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Miha Ožbot , Igor Škrjanc

The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the web), biological inquiries (functional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Filippo Radicchi , Claudio Castellano , Federico Cecconi , Vittorio Loreto , Domenico Parisi

Modern networks are of huge sizes as well as high dynamics, which challenges the efficiency of community detection algorithms. In this paper, we study the problem of overlapping community detection on distributed and dynamic graphs. Given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Xun Jian , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen

We present NECTAR, a community detection algorithm that generalizes Louvain method's local search heuristic for overlapping community structures. NECTAR chooses dynamically which objective function to optimize based on the network on which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Yehonatan Cohen , Danny Hendler , Amir Rubin

Detection of non-overlapping and overlapping communities are essentially the same problem. However, current algorithms focus either on finding overlapping or non-overlapping communities. We present a generalized framework that can identify…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Suhansanu Kumar , Niloy Ganguly , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

The problem of community detection is important as it helps in understanding the spread of information in a social network. All real complex networks have an inbuilt structure which captures and characterizes the network dynamics between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Radhika Arava

Community and cluster detection is a popular field of social network analysis. Most algorithms focus on static graphs or series of snapshots. In this paper we present an algorithm, which detects communities in dynamic graphs. The method is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Pascal Held , Rudolf Kruse