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We introduce a new paradigm that is important for community detection in the realm of network analysis. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Kun He , Yingru Li , Sucheta Soundarajan , John E. Hopcroft

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…

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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

Community structures are an important feature of many social, biological and technological networks. Here we study a variation on the method for detecting such communities proposed by Girvan and Newman and based on the idea of using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Santo Fortunato , Vito Latora , Massimo Marchiori

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

In this paper, we propose a technique for time series clustering using community detection in complex networks. Firstly, we present a method to transform a set of time series into a network using different distance functions, where each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-20 Leonardo N. Ferreira , Liang Zhao

Communities play a crucial role to describe and analyse modern networks. However, the size of those networks has grown tremendously with the increase of computational power and data storage. While various methods have been developed to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-30 Arnaud Browet , P. -A. Absil , Paul Van Dooren

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

We propose a new local community detection algorithm that finds communities by identifying borderlines between them using boundary nodes. Our method performs label propagation for community detection, where nodes decide their labels based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

In social networks, the discovery of community structures has received considerable attention as a fundamental problem in various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Ming Li , Won-Yong Shin

In this paper, we study the crucial elements of complex networks, namely nodes, and edges and their properties such as their community structure, which play an important role in dictating the robustness of the network towards structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-04 V. Parimi , A. Pal , S. Ruj , P. Kumaraguru , T. Chakraborty

Constrained clustering has been well-studied in the unsupervised learning society. However, how to encode constraints into community structure detection, within complex networks, remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Zhong-Yuan Zhang

A significant problem in analysis of complex network is to reveal community structure, in which network nodes are tightly connected in the same communities, between which there are sparse connections. Previous algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-25 Jingming Zhang , Jianjun Cheng , Xing Su , Xinhong Yin , Shiyan Zhao , Xiaoyun Chen

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Community and cluster detection is a popular field of social network analysis. Most algorithms focus on static graphs or series of snapshots. In this paper we present an algorithm, which detects communities in dynamic graphs. The method is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Pascal Held , Rudolf Kruse

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

Community detection is the task of clustering objects based on their pairwise relationships. Most of the model-based community detection methods, such as the stochastic block model and its variants, are designed for networks with binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Xiang Li , Yunpeng Zhao , Qing Pan , Ning Hao

The discovery of community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention as a fundamental problem for various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin

Community is a common characteristic of networks including social networks, biological networks, computer and information networks, to name a few. Community detection is a basic step for exploring and analysing these network data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Maoying Qiao , Jun Yu , Wei Bian , Dacheng Tao

Urban structure detection is a basic task in urban geography. Clustering is a core technology to detect the patterns of urban spatial structure, urban functional region, and so on. In big data era, diverse urban sensing datasets recording…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Xin Lin , Haifeng Li , Yan Zhang , Lei Gao , Ling Zhao , Min Deng