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How can we uncover the natural communities in a real network that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new community detection algorithm, called Attractor, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junming Shao , Zhichao Han , Qinli Yang

We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Large graphs arise in a number of contexts and understanding their structure and extracting information from them is an important research area. Early algorithms on mining communities have focused on the global structure, and often run in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Yixuan Li , Kun He , David Bindel , John Hopcroft

The label propagation algorithm (LPA) has been proved to be a fast and effective method for detecting communities in large complex networks. However, its performance is subject to the non-stable and trivial solutions of the problem. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-15 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Zhu Su , Longfeng Zhao , Weibing Deng

We propose an algorithm for finding overlapping community structure in very large networks. The algorithm is based on the label propagation technique of Raghavan, Albert, and Kumara, but is able to detect communities that overlap. Like the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-15 Steve Gregory

Community detection is a fundamental problem in machine learning. While deep learning has shown great promise in many graphrelated tasks, developing neural models for community detection has received surprisingly little attention. The few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Oleksandr Shchur , Stephan Günnemann

Recent researches have discovered that rich interactions among entities in nature and society bring about complex networks with community structures. Although the investigation of the community structures has promoted the development of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-24 Nan Du , Bin Wu , Bai Wang , Yi Wang

InfoMap is a popular approach to detect densely connected "communities" of nodes in networks. To detect such communities, InfoMap uses random walks and ideas from information theory. Motivated by the dynamics of disease spread on networks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Esteban Vargas Bernal , Mason A. Porter , Joseph H. Tien

Graph clustering is an important technique to understand the relationships between the vertices in a big graph. In this paper, we propose a novel random-walk-based graph clustering method. The proposed method restricts the reach of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Jenni Raitoharju , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

A canonical problem in graph mining is the detection of dense communities. This problem is exacerbated for a graph with a large order and size -- the number of vertices and edges -- as many community detection algorithms scale poorly. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Heng Wang , Da Zheng , Randal Burns , Carey Priebe

Graph mining to extract interesting components has been studied in various guises, e.g., communities, dense subgraphs, cliques. However, most existing works are based on notions of frequency and connectivity and do not capture subjective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Hao Wu , Maoyuan Sun , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti , Chris North , Naren Ramakrishnan

Complex networks can be typically broken down into groups or modules. Discovering this "community structure" is an important step in studying the large-scale structure of networks. Many algorithms have been proposed for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jan Dreier , Philipp Kuinke , Rafael Przybylski , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

Clustering and community structure is crucial for many network systems and the related dynamic processes. It has been shown that communities are usually overlapping and hierarchical. However, previous methods investigate these two…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-02-20 Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Kai Cai , Mao-Bin Hu

With the increasing relevance of large networks in important areas such as the study of contact networks for spread of disease, or social networks for their impact on geopolitics, it has become necessary to study machine learning tools that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Aman Barot , Shankar Bhamidi , Souvik Dhara

We propose a new local community detection algorithm that finds communities by identifying borderlines between them using boundary nodes. Our method performs label propagation for community detection, where nodes decide their labels based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

Community structures are critical for understanding the mesoscopic organization of networks, bridging local and global patterns. While methods such as DeepWalk and node2vec capture local positional information through random walks, they…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-19 He Yu , Jing Liu

The detection of overlapping communities is a challenging problem which is gaining increasing interest in recent years because of the natural attitude of individuals, observed in real-world networks, to participate in multiple groups at the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Alessia Amelio , Clara Pizzuti

Maximization of the entropy rate is an important issue to design diffusion processes aiming at a well-mixed state. We demonstrate that it is possible to construct maximal-entropy random walks with only local information on the graph…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-14 Roberta Sinatra , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Renaud Lambiotte , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

Community structure is one of the most prominent features of complex networks. Community structure detection is of great importance to provide insights into the network structure and functionalities. Most proposals focus on static networks.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Souâad Boudebza , Rémy Cazabet , Faiçal Azouaou , Omar Nouali

Credal partitions in the framework of belief functions can give us a better understanding of the analyzed data set. In order to find credal community structure in graph data sets, in this paper, we propose a novel evidential community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Kuang Zhou , Quan Pan , Arnaud Martin