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Community structure in networks has been investigated from many viewpoints, usually with the same end result: a community detection algorithm of some kind. Recent research offers methods for combining the results of such algorithms into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-01-10 James P. Ferry , J. Oren Bumgarner

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

Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Wei Li , Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk , Kyle Godbey , Horst Stöcker

As a fundamental structure in real-world networks, in addition to graph topology, communities can also be reflected by abundant node attributes. In attributed community detection, probabilistic generative models (PGMs) have become the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ren Ren , Jinliang Shao , Adrian N. Bishop , Wei Xing Zheng

We consider the problem of community detection from the joint observation of a high-dimensional covariate matrix and $L$ sparse networks, all encoding noisy, partial information about the latent community labels of $n$ subjects. In the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shuyang Gong , Dong Huang , Zhangsong Li

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

Aiming at improving the efficiency and accuracy of community detection in complex networks, we proposed a new algorithm, which is based on the idea that communities could be detected from subnetworks by comparing the internal and external…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-20 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Weibing Deng

Networks and data supported on graphs have become ubiquitous in the sciences and engineering. This paper studies the 'blind' community detection problem, where we seek to infer the community structure of a graph model given the observation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Michael T. Schaub , Hoi-To Wai , Santiago Segarra

The community deception problem is about how to hide a target community C from community detection algorithms. The need for deception emerges whenever a group of entities (e.g., activists, police enforcements) want to cooperate while…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Valeria Fionda , Giuseppe Pirrò

Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

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

Nowadays, there are many approaches designed for the task of detecting communities in social networks. Among them, some methods only consider the topological graph structure, while others take use of both the graph structure and the node…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Salma Ben Dhaou , Kuang Zhou , Mouloud Kharoune , Arnaud Martin , Boutheina Ben Yaghlane

We present a new algorithm for community detection. The algorithm uses random walks to embed the graph in a space of measures, after which a modification of $k$-means in that space is applied. The algorithm is therefore fast and easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor

Community detection is an important research topic in complex networks. We present the employment of a genetic algorithm to detect communities in complex networks which is based on optimizing network modularity. It does not need any prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-06 Mursel Tasgin , Amac Herdagdelen , Haluk Bingol

Identifying communities in networks is a fundamental and challenging problem of practical importance in many fields of science. Current methods either ignore the heterogeneous distribution of nodal degrees or assume prior knowledge of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xin-Jian Xu , Cheng Chen , J. F. F. Mendes

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

Statistical significance of network clustering has been an unresolved problem since it was observed that community detection algorithms produce false positives even in random graphs. After a phase transition between undetectable and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jeremi K. Ochab

Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying link farms in the World Wide Web. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Peter J. Bickel , Purnamrita Sarkar

Empirical observations suggest that in practice, community membership does not completely explain the dependency between the edges of an observation graph. The residual dependence of the graph edges are modeled in this paper, to first…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mohammad Esmaeili , Aria Nosratinia

Consider a network consisting of two subnetworks (communities) connected by some external edges. Given the network topology, the community detection problem can be cast as a graph partitioning problem that aims to identify the external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero