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We consider an approach for community detection in time-varying networks. At its core, this approach maintains a small sketch graph to capture the essential community structure found in each snapshot of the full network. We demonstrate how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , George K. Atia

To find interesting structure in networks, community detection algorithms have to take into account not only the network topology, but also dynamics of interactions between nodes. We investigate this claim using the paradigm of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Community detection on attributed graphs with rich semantic and topological information offers great potential for real-world network analysis, especially user matching in online games. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently enabled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Chang Liu , Yuwen Yang , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Wenqing Lin , Ziming Wu , Wendong Bi

The Web is a typical example of a social network. One of the most intriguing features of the Web is its self-organization behavior, which is usually faced through the existence of communities. The discovery of the communities in a Web-graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Antonis Sidiropoulos

A multiplex network models different modes of interaction among same-type entities. In this article we provide a taxonomy of community detection algorithms in multiplex networks. We characterize the different algorithms based on various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Matteo Magnani , Obaida Hanteer , Roberto Interdonato , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tagarelli

Searching for local communities is an important research challenge that allows for personalized community discovery and supports advanced data analysis in various complex networks, such as the World Wide Web, social networks, and brain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Farnoosh Hashemi , Ali Behrouz , Milad Rezaei Hajidehi

Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Based on signaling process on complex networks, a method for identification community structure is proposed. For a network with $n$ nodes, every node is assumed to be a system which can send, receive, and record signals. Each node is taken…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Yanqing Hu , Menghui Li , Peng Zhang , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

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

A community reveals the features and connections of its members that are different from those in other communities in a network. Detecting communities is of great significance in network analysis. Despite the classical spectral clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xing Su , Shan Xue , Fanzhen Liu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Di Jin , Quan Z. Sheng , Philip S. Yu

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

The paper is devoted to game-theoretic methods for community detection in networks. The traditional methods for detecting community structure are based on selecting denser subgraphs inside the network. Here we propose to use the methods of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Aleksei Kondratev , Vladimir Mazalov

The identification of modular structures is essential for characterizing real networks formed by a mesoscopic level of organization where clusters contain nodes with a high internal degree of connectivity. Many methods have been developed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-04 Diego R. Amancio , Osvaldo N. Oliveira , Luciano da F. Costa

Community detection is a core tool for analyzing large realworld graphs. It is often used to derive additional local features of vertices and edges that will be used to perform a downstream task, yet the impact of community detection on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Detecting communities in complex networks can shed light on the essential characteristics and functions of the modeled phenomena. This topic has attracted researchers of various fields from both academia and industry. Among the different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sajjad Hesamipour , Mohammad Ali Balafar , Saeed Mousazadeh

Personalized community detection aims to generate communities associated with user need on graphs, which benefits many downstream tasks such as node recommendation and link prediction for users, etc. It is of great importance but lack of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zheng Gao , Chun Guo , Xiaozhong 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

Social relationships can be divided into different classes based on the regularity with which they occur and the similarity among them. Thus, rare and somewhat similar relationships are random and cause noise in a social network, thus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Michele Amaral Brandão , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Alberto H. F. Laender

Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses an objective function that captures the intuition of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Michael W. Mahoney

Most methods proposed to uncover communities in complex networks rely on combinatorial graph properties. Usually an edge-counting quality function, such as modularity, is optimized over all partitions of the graph compared against a null…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-17 Renaud Lambiotte , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Mauricio Barahona