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With the rapid development of information technologies, various big graphs are prevalent in many real applications (e.g., social media and knowledge bases). An important component of these graphs is the network community. Essentially, a…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Yixiang Fang , Xin Huang , Lu Qin , Ying Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Reynold Cheng , Xuemin Lin

As communities represent similar opinions, similar functions, similar purposes, etc., community detection is an important and extremely useful tool in both scientific inquiry and data analytics. However, the classic methods of community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Fanzhen Liu , Shan Xue , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Jian Yang , Philip S. Yu

Community detection has long been an important yet challenging task to analyze complex networks with a focus on detecting topological structures of graph data. Essentially, real-world graph data contains various features, node and edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yaping Zheng , Shiyi Chen , Xinni Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Xiaofei Yang , Di Wang

The large amount of work on community detection and its applications leaves unaddressed one important question: the statistical validation of the results. In this paper we present a methodology able to clearly detect if the community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Annamaria Carissimo , Luisa Cutillo , Italia Defeis

Community detection remains an important problem in data mining, owing to the lack of scalable algorithms that exploit all aspects of available data - namely the directionality of flow of information and the dynamics thereof. Most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

We will present improvements to famous algorithms for community detection, namely Newman's spectral method algorithm and the Louvain algorithm. The Newman algorithm begins by treating the original graph as a single cluster, then repeats the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Duy Hieu Do , Thi Ha Duong Phan

A large body of work has been devoted to defining and identifying clusters or communities in social and information networks. We explore from a novel perspective several questions related to identifying meaningful communities in large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-13 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Anirban Dasgupta , Michael W. Mahoney

Community detection or clustering is a crucial task for understanding the structure of complex systems. In some networks, nodes are permitted to be linked by either "positive" or "negative" edges; such networks are called signed networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-13 Zhaoyue Zhong , Xiangrong Wang , Cunquan Qu , Guanghui Wang

This paper proposes a novel community detection method that integrates the Louvain algorithm with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enabling the discovery of communities without prior knowledge. Compared to most existing solutions, the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dalila Khettaf , Djamel Djenouri , Zeinab Rezaeifar , Youcef Djenouri

Community detection is an important tool for analyzing the social graph of mobile phone users. The problem of finding communities in static graphs has been widely studied. However, since mobile social networks evolve over time, static graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Carlos Sarraute , Gervasio Calderon

This study investigates the robustness of graph embedding methods for community detection in the face of network perturbations, specifically edge deletions. Graph embedding techniques, which represent nodes as low-dimensional vectors, are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-05 Zhi-Feng Wei , Pablo Moriano , Ramakrishnan Kannan

In network research, Community Detection has always been a topic of significant interest in network science, with numerous papers and algorithms proposing to uncover the underlying structures within networks. In this paper, we conduct a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yash Malode , Amit Aylani , Arvind Bhardwaj , Deepak Hajoary

The amount of graph-structured data has recently experienced an enormous growth in many applications. To transform such data into useful information, fast analytics algorithms and software tools are necessary. One common graph analytics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Christian L. Staudt , Henning Meyerhenke

The emerging problem of joint community detection and group synchronization, with applications in signal processing and machine learning, has been extensively studied in recent years. Previous research has predominantly focused on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao

Social networks have become a part in the daily life of millions of users, which offer wide range of interests and practices. The main characteristic of social networks is its ability to gather different individuals around a common point of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-27 Mohamed Adnane Mellah , Abdelmalek Amine , Reda Mohamed Hamou , A. V. Senthil Kumar

A challenging problem in the study of complex systems is that of resolving, without prior information, the emergent, mesoscopic organization determined by groups of units whose dynamical activity is more strongly correlated internally than…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-04-21 Mel MacMahon , Diego Garlaschelli

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

Federated Learning is machine learning in the context of a network of clients whilst maintaining data residency and/or privacy constraints. Community detection is the unsupervised discovery of clusters of nodes within graph-structured data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

Random-walk based network embedding algorithms like DeepWalk and node2vec are widely used to obtain Euclidean representation of the nodes in a network prior to performing downstream inference tasks. However, despite their impressive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-25 Yichi Zhang , Minh Tang

Algorithms for search of communities in networks usually consist discrete variations of links. Here we discuss a flow method, driven by a set of differential equations. Two examples are demonstrated in detail. First is a partition of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-19 Przemyslaw Gawronski , Malgorzata J. Krawczyk , Krzysztof Kulakowski