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We propose a general form of community detecting functions for finding the communities or the optimal partition of a random network, and examine the concentration and stability of the function values using the bounded difference martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-28 Weituo Zhang , Chjan C. Lim

Community detection is a commonly used technique for identifying groups in a network based on similarities in connectivity patterns. To facilitate community detection in large networks, we recast the network to be partitioned into a smaller…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Natalie Stanley , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

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 compare recent approaches to community structure identification in terms of sensitivity and computational cost. The recently proposed modularity measure is revisited and the performance of the methods as applied to ad hoc networks with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Leon Danon , Jordi Duch , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

In this paper, we propose MOUFLON, a fairness-aware, modularity-based community detection method that allows adjusting the importance of partition quality over fairness outcomes. MOUFLON uses a novel proportional balance fairness metric,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Georgios Panayiotou , Anand Mathew Muthukulam Simon , Matteo Magnani , Ece Calikus

Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms. Unfortunately, the issue of a fair assessment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jebabli Malek , Cherifi Hocine , Cherifi Chantal , Hamouda Atef

In his paper on Community Detection [1], Fortunato introduced a quality function called performance to assess the goodness of a graph partition. This measure counts the number of correctly ``interpreted" pairs of vertices, i. e. two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Srushti Thakar , Amit A. Nanavati

Despite the prevalence of community detection algorithms, relatively less work has been done on understanding whether a network is indeed modular and how resilient the community structure is under perturbations. To address this issue, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-11 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Sriram Srinivasan , Niloy Ganguly , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

Modularity, first proposed by [Newman and Girvan, 2004], is one of the most popular ways to quantify the significance of community structure in complex networks. It can serve as both a standard benchmark to compare different community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Qian Wang , Yongkang Guo , Zhihuan Huang , Yuqing Kong

We study potential biases of popular cluster quality metrics, such as conductance or modularity. We propose a method that uses both stochastic and preferential attachment block models construction to generate networks with preset community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Martí Renedo-Mirambell , Argimiro Arratia

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a crucial problem in network analysis. In this paper, we analyze the performance of two spectral clustering algorithms for community detection within the framework of the multi-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huan Qing

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu

The detection of community structure is probably one of the hottest trends in complex network research as it reveals the internal organization of people, molecules or processes behind social, biological or computer networks\dots The issue…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Franck Delaplace

In recent years a number of quantum computing devices with small numbers of qubits became available. We present a hybrid quantum local search (QLS) approach that combines a classical machine and a small quantum device to solve problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Ruslan Shaydulin , Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa , Ilya Safro , Susan Mniszewski , Yuri Alexeev

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

Community detection is a key task to further understand the function and the structure of complex networks. Therefore, a strategy used to assess this task must be able to avoid biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

The goal of community detection algorithms is to identify densely-connected units within large networks. An implicit assumption is that all the constituent nodes belong equally to their associated community. However, some nodes are more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Sriram Srinivasan , Niloy Ganguly , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

How can we accurately compare different community detection algorithms? These algorithms cluster nodes in a given network, and their performance is often validated on benchmark networks with explicit ground-truth communities. Given the lack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Justin Fagnan , Afra Abnar , Reihaneh Rabbany , Osmar R. Zaiane