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Modularity-based algorithms used for community detection have been increasing in recent years. Modularity and its application have been generating controversy since some authors argue it is not a metric without disadvantages. It has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento

Given an attributed graph $G$ and a query node $q$, \underline{C}ommunity \underline{S}earch over \underline{A}ttributed \underline{G}raphs (CS-AG) aims to find a structure- and attribute-cohesive subgraph from $G$ that contains $q$.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yuxiang Wang , Shuzhan Ye , Xiaoliang Xu , Yuxia Geng , Zhenghe Zhao , Xiangyu Ke , Tianxing Wu

In this paper, a new comparative definition for community in networks is proposed and the corresponding detecting algorithm is given. A community is defined as a set of nodes, which satisfy that each node's degree inside the community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanqing Hu , Hongbin Chen , Peng Zhang , Menghui Li , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Most of the current complex networks that are of interest to practitioners possess a certain community structure that plays an important role in understanding the properties of these networks. Moreover, many machine learning algorithms and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

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

A crucial privacy-driven issue nowadays is re-identifying anonymized social networks by mapping them to correlated cross-domain auxiliary networks. Prior works are typically based on modeling social networks as random graphs representing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Luoyi Fu , Xinzhe Fu , Zhongzhao Hu , Zhiying Xu , Xinbing Wang

Many community detection algorithms have been developed to uncover the mesoscopic properties of complex networks. However how good an algorithm is, in terms of accuracy and computing time, remains still open. Testing algorithms on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-29 Zhao Yang , René Algesheimer , Claudio Juan Tessone

Community Detection algorithms are used to detect densely connected components in complex networks and reveal underlying relationships among components. As a special type of networks, spatial networks are usually generated by the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yunlei Liang , Jiawei Zhu , Wen Ye , Song Gao

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

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

In community detection, datasets often suffer a sampling bias for which nodes which would normally have a high affinity appear to have zero affinity. This happens for example when two affine users of a social network were not exposed to one…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Sameh Othman , Johannes Schulz , Marco Baity-Jesi , Caterina De Bacco

Understanding community structure in social media is critical due to its broad applications such as friend recommendations, link predictions and collaborative filtering. However, there is no widely accepted definition of community in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Paul Wagenseller , Feng Wang

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

Mining community structures from the complex network is an important problem across a variety of fields. Many existing community detection methods detect communities through optimizing a community evaluation function. However, most of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Zheng Chen , Zengyou He , Hao Liang , Can Zhao , Yan Liu

Over the past decade, community detection in overlapping un-weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities, has been one of the most popular topics in modern network science. However, community detection in overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Huan Qing

Information diffusion, spreading of infectious diseases, and spreading of rumors are fundamental processes occurring in real-life networks. In many practical cases, one can observe when nodes become infected, but the underlying network,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov , Nelly Litvak

We derive rigorous bounds for well-defined community structure in complex networks for a stochastic block model (SBM) benchmark. In particular, we analyze the effect of inter-community "noise" (inter-community edges) on any "community…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-14 Richard K. Darst , David R. Reichman , Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Community discovery in complex networks is an interesting problem with a number of applications, especially in the knowledge extraction task in social and information networks. However, many large networks often lack a particular community…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Michele Coscia , Giulio Rossetti , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi

The selection of features is an essential data preprocessing stage in data mining. The core principle of feature selection seems to be to pick a subset of possible features by excluding features with almost no predictive information as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mehrdad Rostami , Kamal Berahmand , Saman Forouzandeh

Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than…

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

Dense sub-graphs of sparse graphs (communities), which appear in most real-world complex networks, play an important role in many contexts. Most existing community detection algorithms produce a hierarchical structure of community and seek…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Pascal Pons , Matthieu Latapy