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We present the class of projection methods for community detection that generalizes many popular community detection methods. In this framework, we represent each clustering (partition) by a vector on a high-dimensional hypersphere. A…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Martijn Gösgens , Remco van der Hofstad , Nelly Litvak

Complex systems are usually illustrated by networks which captures the topology of the interactions between the entities. To better understand the roles played by the entities in the system one needs to uncover the underlying community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

The optimal strategy for community detection in complex networks is not universal, but depends critically on the network's underlying structural properties. Although popular graph-theoretic methods, such as Louvain, optimize for modularity,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jelena Losic

Modularity maximization is one of the state-of-the-art methods for community detection that has gained popularity in the last decade. Yet it suffers from the resolution limit problem by preferring under certain conditions large communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Xiaoyan Lu , Konstantin Kuzmin , Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

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

Network (or graph) embedding is the task to map the nodes of a graph to a lower dimensional vector space, such that it preserves the graph properties and facilitates the downstream network mining tasks. Real world networks often come with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Saley Vishal Vivek , M. N. Murty

Embedding the nodes of a large network into an Euclidean space is a common objective in modern machine learning, with a variety of tools available. These embeddings can then be used as features for tasks such as community detection/node…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-23 Andrew Davison , S. Carlyle Morgan , Owen G. Ward

Community detection is a commonly used technique for identifying groups in a network based on similarities in connectivity patterns. To facilitate community detection in large networks, we recast the network to be partitioned into a smaller…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Natalie Stanley , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

In this paper, we focus on the community detection problem in multiplex networks, i.e., networks with multiple layers having same node sets and no inter-layer connections. In particular, we look for groups of nodes that can be recognized as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Sara Venturini , Andrea Cristofari , Francesco Rinaldi , Francesco Tudisco

We introduce Mercator, a reliable embedding method to map real complex networks into their hyperbolic latent geometry. The method assumes that the structure of networks is well described by the Popularity$\times$Similarity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-25 Guillermo García-Pérez , Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Detecting communities in complex networks can shed light on the essential characteristics and functions of the modeled phenomena. This topic has attracted researchers of various fields from both academia and industry. Among the different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sajjad Hesamipour , Mohammad Ali Balafar , Saeed Mousazadeh

Temporal Networks, and more specifically, Markovian Temporal Networks, present a unique challenge regarding the community discovery task. The inherent dynamism of these systems requires an intricate understanding of memory effects and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-20 Giulio Virginio Clemente , Diego Garlaschelli

Community detection is an important tool for analyzing the social graph of mobile phone users. The problem of finding communities in static graphs has been widely studied. However, since mobile social networks evolve over time, static graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Carlos Sarraute , Gervasio Calderon

Community detection is of considerable importance for analyzing the structure and function of complex networks. Many real-world networks may possess community structures at multiple scales, and recently, various multi-resolution methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-01 Ju Xiang , Yan-Ni Tang , Yuan-Yuan Gao , Yan Zhang , Ke Deng , Xiao-Ke Xu , Ke Hu

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

We present PyGenStability, a general-use Python software package that provides a suite of analysis and visualisation tools for unsupervised multiscale community detection in graphs. PyGenStability finds optimized partitions of a graph at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Juni Schindler , Robert L. Peach , Adam Gosztolai , Maxwell Hodges , Michael T. Schaub , Mauricio Barahona

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a crucial problem in network analysis. In this paper, we analyze the performance of two spectral clustering algorithms for community detection within the framework of the multi-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huan Qing

In this paper, we study how to simultaneously learn two highly correlated tasks of graph analysis, i.e., community detection and node representation learning. We propose an efficient generative model called VECoDeR for jointly learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Omran Kaddah , Martin Kleinsteuber

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

Many algorithms have been proposed in the last ten years for the discovery of dynamic communities. However, these methods are seldom compared between themselves. In this article, we propose a generator of dynamic graphs with planted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Remy Cazabet , Souaad Boudebza , Giulio Rossetti