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We study the problem of testing for community structure in networks using relations between the observed frequencies of small subgraphs. We propose a simple test for the existence of communities based only on the frequencies of three-node…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-17 Chao Gao , John Lafferty

The relationship of friends in social networks can be strong or weak. Some research works have shown that a close relationship between friends conducts good community structure. Based on this result, we propose an effective method in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Xiaoping Fan , Zhijie Chen , Fei Cai , Jinsong Wu , Shengzong Liu , Zhining Liao , Zhifang Liao

Community detection is a very active field in complex networks analysis, consisting in identifying groups of nodes more densely interconnected relatively to the rest of the network. The existing algorithms are usually tested and compared on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi

Modularity is a popular measure of community structure. However, maximizing the modularity can lead to many competing partitions, with almost the same modularity, that are poorly correlated with each other. It can also produce illusory…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-30 Pan Zhang , Cristopher Moore

Community detection is a well established method for studying the meso scale structure of social networks. Applying a community detection algorithm results in a division of a network into communities that is often used to inspect and reason…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Dafne E. van Kuppevelt , Rena Bakhshi , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Frank W. Takes

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Many real systems can be represented as networks whose analysis can be very informative regarding the original system's organisation. In the past decade community detection received a lot of attention and is now an active field of research.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

The complexity of biological, social and engineering networks makes it desirable to find natural partitions into communities that can act as simplified descriptions and provide insight into the structure and function of the overall system.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-18 J. -C. Delvenne , S. N. Yaliraki , M. Barahona

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

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

A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the World-Wide Web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties which seem to be common to many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michelle Girvan , M. E. J. Newman

Communities often represent key structural and functional clusters in networks. To preserve such communities, it is important to understand their robustness under network perturbations. Previous work in community robustness analysis has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-03 Moyi Tian , Pablo Moriano

Community structure is largely regarded as an intrinsic property of complex real-world networks. However, recent studies reveal that networks comprise even more sophisticated modules than classical cohesive communities. More precisely,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-10-13 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Many community detection algorithms require the introduction of a measure on the set of nodes. Previously, a lot of efforts have been made to find the top-performing measures. In most cases, experiments were conducted on several datasets or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Rinat Aynulin

The persistence probability is a statistical index that has been proposed to detect one or more communities embedded in a network. Even though its definition is straightforward, e.g, the probability that a random walker remains in a group…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Alessandro Avellone , Stefano Benati , Rosanna Grassi , Giorgio Rizzini

Bipartite networks composed of dichotomous node sets are ubiquitous in nature and society. Partly for simplicity's sake, many studies have focused on their projection onto their unipartite versions where one only needs to care about a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-03 Sang Hoon Lee

Community detection, a fundamental task for network analysis, aims to partition a network into multiple sub-structures to help reveal their latent functions. Community detection has been extensively studied in and broadly applied to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Di Jin , Zhizhi Yu , Pengfei Jiao , Shirui Pan , Dongxiao He , Jia Wu , Philip S. Yu , Weixiong Zhang

The study of time-varying (dynamic) networks (graphs) is of fundamental importance for computer network analytics. Several methods have been proposed to detect the effect of significant structural changes in a time series of graphs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

The topological information of a network can be retrieved equivalently from its complement consisting of the same nodes but complementary edges. Hence the partition of a network into certain substructures based on given criteria should be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiao Wang , C. -H. Lai