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This report presents a very simple algorithm for overlaping community-detection in large graphs under constraints such as the minimum and maximum number of members allowed. The algorithm is based on the simulation of random walks and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Luis Argerich

We study how to detect groups in a complex network each of which consists of component nodes sharing a similar connection pattern. Based on the mixture models and the exploratory analysis set up by Newman and Leicht (Newman and Leicht 2007…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-17 J. Wang , C. -H. Lai

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

Graph embeddings learn the structure of networks and represent it in low-dimensional vector spaces. Community structure is one of the features that are recognized and reproduced by embeddings. We show that an iterative procedure, in which a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-30 Bianka Kovács , Sadamori Kojaku , Gergely Palla , Santo Fortunato

It has been found that many networks display community structure -- groups of vertices within which connections are dense but between which they are sparser -- and highly sensitive computer algorithms have in recent years been developed for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. J. Newman

Community detection is a classical problem in the field of graph mining. While most algorithms work on the entire graph, it is often interesting in practice to recover only the community containing some given set of seed nodes. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Alexandre Hollocou , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

This paper considers the problem of community detection on multiple potentially correlated graphs from an information-theoretical perspective. We first put forth a random graph model, called the multi-view stochastic block model (MVSBM),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yexin Zhang , Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xuelong Li

This paper is an extensive survey of literature on complex network communities and clustering. Complex networks describe a widespread variety of systems in nature and society especially systems composed by a large number of highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Biswajit Saha , Amitabha Mandal , Soumendu Bikas Tripathy , Debaprasad Mukherjee

The discovery of community structures in social networks has gained significant attention since it is a fundamental problem in understanding the networks' topology and functions. However, most social network data are collected from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin , Andreas Spitz

The conventional notion of community that favors a high ratio of internal edges to outbound edges becomes invalid when each vertex participates in multiple communities. Such a behavior is commonplace in social networks. The significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , Pak Ming Hui

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

Communities in social networks or graphs are sets of well-connected, overlapping vertices. The effectiveness of a community detection algorithm is determined by accuracy in finding the ground-truth communities and ability to scale with the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-24 Dhruv Parthasarathy , Devavrat Shah , Tauhid Zaman

In this paper we discuss a very simple approach of combining content and link information in graph structures for the purpose of community discovery, a fundamental task in network analysis. Our approach hinges on the basic intuition that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Yiye Ruan , David Fuhry , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Finding groups of connected individuals in large graphs with tens of thousands or more nodes has received considerable attention in academic research. In this paper, we analyze three main issues with respect to the recent influx of papers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker

Different kinds of random walks have proven to be useful in the study of structural properties of complex networks. Among them, the restricted dynamics of self-avoiding random walks (SAW), which visit only at most once each vertex in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-23 Guilherme de Guzzi Bagnato , José Ricardo Furlan Ronqui , Gonzalo Travieso

Community detections for large-scale real world networks have been more popular in social analytics. In particular, dynamically growing network analyses become important to find long-term trends and detect anomalies. In order to analyze…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Hiroki Kanezashi , Toyotaro Suzumura

A new method for community identification is proposed which is founded on the analysis of successive neighborhoods, reached through hierarchical growth from a starting vertex, and on the definition of communities as a subgraph whose number…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Gonzalo Travieso , Luciano da F. Costa

Social networks facilitate the social space where actors or the users have ties among them. The ties and their patterns are based on their life styles and communication. Similarly, in online social media networks like Facebook, Twitter,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Victor Stany Rozario , A. Z. M. Ehtesham Chowdhury , Muhammad Sarwar Jahan Morshed

Community detection in social network graphs plays a vital role in uncovering group dynamics, influence pathways, and the spread of information. Traditional methods focus primarily on graph structural properties, but recent advancements in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ekta Gujral , Apurva Sinha