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Community detection, the division of a network into dense subnetworks with only sparse connections between them, has been a topic of vigorous study in recent years. However, while there exist a range of powerful and flexible methods for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-24 M. E. J. Newman , Gesine Reinert

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis with many methods available to estimate communities. Most of these methods assume that the number of communities is known, which is often not the case in practice. We study a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-18 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina

A fundamental problem in network analysis is clustering the nodes into groups which share a similar connectivity pattern. Existing algorithms for community detection assume the knowledge of the number of clusters or estimate it a priori…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-30 Junxian Geng , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

Community detection in weighted networks has been a popular topic in recent years. However, while there exist several flexible methods for estimating communities in weighted networks, these methods usually assume that the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Huan Qing

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

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

We develop a Bayesian hierarchical model to identify communities in networks for which we do not observe the edges directly, but instead observe a series of interdependent signals for each of the nodes. Fitting the model provides an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Till Hoffmann , Leto Peel , Renaud Lambiotte , Nick S. Jones

Many empirical networks have community structure, in which nodes are densely interconnected within each community (i.e., a group of nodes) and sparsely across different communities. Like other local and meso-scale structure of networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-10 Sadamori Kojaku , Naoki Masuda

Community detection is key to understand the structure of complex networks. However, the lack of appropriate evaluation strategies for this specific task may produce biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further analyses or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

We express community detection as an inference problem of determining the most likely arrangement of communities. We then apply belief propagation and mean-field theory to this problem, and show that this leads to fast, accurate algorithms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. B. Hastings

Statistical estimates can often be improved by fusion of data from several different sources. One example is so-called ensemble methods which have been successfully applied in areas such as machine learning for classification and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-03 Johan Dahlin , Pontus Svenson

We present a Bayesian nonparametric Poisson factorization model for modeling network data with an unknown and potentially growing number of overlapping communities. The construction is based on completely random measures and allows the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-28 Fadhel Ayed , François Caron

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

Community detection involves grouping the nodes in the network and is one of the most-studied tasks in network science. Conventional methods usually require the specification of the number of communities $K$ in the network. This number is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-30 Yuhua Zhang , Kori S. Zachrison , Renee Y. Hsia , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Network community detection is usually considered as an unsupervised learning problem. Given a network, the aim is to partition it using some general purpose algorithm. In this paper we instead treat community detection as a hypothesis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rudy Arthur

A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Community detection methods have so far been tested mostly on small empirical networks and on synthetic benchmarks. Much less is known about their performance on large real-world networks, which nonetheless are a significant target for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Gergely Tibely , Lauri Kovanen , Marton Karsai , Kimmo Kaski , Janos Kertesz , Jari Saramaki

To obtain the optimal number of communities is an important problem in detecting community structure. In this paper, we extend the measurement of community detecting algorithms to find the optimal community number. Based on the normalized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhifang Li , Yanqing Hu , Beishan Xu , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

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
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