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We study networks that display community structure -- groups of nodes within which connections are unusually dense. Using methods from random matrix theory, we calculate the spectra of such networks in the limit of large size, and hence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Raj Rao Nadakuditi , M. E. J. Newman

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

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

In numerous networks, it is vital to identify communities consisting of closely joined groups of individuals. Such communities often reveal the role of the networks or primary properties of the individuals. In this perspective, Newman and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ghazal Ghajari , Hooshang Jazayeri-Rad , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfooli

Communities are clusters of nodes with a higher than average density of internal connections. Their detection is of great relevance to better understand the structure and hierarchies present in a network. Modularity has become a standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Lancichinetti , José J. Ramasco

Multi-layer networks are networks on a set of entities (nodes) with multiple types of relations (edges) among them where each type of relation/interaction is represented as a network layer. As with single layer networks, community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-10 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

Identifying community structure in networks is an issue of particular interest in network science. The modularity introduced by Newman and Girvan [Phys. Rev. E 69, 026113 (2004)] is the most popular quality function for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Atsushi Miyauchi , Yasushi Kawase

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that discounts given block structures present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-04 Hasti Narimanzadeh , Takayuki Hiraoka , Mikko Kivelä

Modularity Q is an important function for identifying community structure in complex networks. In this paper, we prove that the modularity maximization problem is equivalent to a nonconvex quadratic programming problem. This result provide…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanqing Hu , Jinshan Wu , Zengru Di

Heterogeneous networks are networks consisting of different types of nodes and multiple types of edges linking such nodes. While community detection has been extensively developed as a useful technique for analyzing networks that contain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jingfei Zhang , Yuguo Chen

Quantum adiabatic optimization has long been expected to outperform classical methods in solving NP-type problems. While this has been proven in certain experiments, its main applications still reside in academic problems where the size of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Joan Falcó-Roget , Kacper Jurek , Barbara Wojtarowicz , Karol Capała , Katarzyna Rycerz

Various attempts have been made in recent years to solve the Resolution Limit (RL) problem in community detection by considering variants of the modularity metric in the detection algorithms. These metrics purportedly largely mitigate the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-01 Jiahao Guo , Pramesh Singh , Kevin E. Bassler

Characterizing large-scale organization in networks, including multilayer networks, is one of the most prominent topics in network science and is important for many applications. One type of mesoscale feature is community structure, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-10 A. Roxana Pamfil , Sam D. Howison , Renaud Lambiotte , Mason A. Porter

Community detection is a fundamental network-analysis primitive with a variety of applications in diverse domains. Although the modularity introduced by Newman and Girvan (2004) has widely been used as a quality function for community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Issey Sukeda , Atsushi Miyauchi , Akiko Takeda

We describe techniques for the robust detection of community structure in some classes of time-dependent networks. Specifically, we consider the use of statistical null models for facilitating the principled identification of structural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-04-16 Danielle S. Bassett , Mason A. Porter , Nicholas F. Wymbs , Scott T. Grafton , Jean M. Carlson , Peter J. Mucha

We study community structure of networks. We have developed a scheme for maximizing the modularity Q based on mean field methods. Further, we have defined a simple family of random networks with community structure; we understand the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Sune Lehmann , Lars Kai Hansen

Networks are a convenient way to represent complex systems of interacting entities. Many networks contain "communities" of nodes that are more densely connected to each other than to nodes in the rest of the network. In this paper, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-27 Marya Bazzi , Mason A. Porter , Stacy Williams , Mark McDonald , Daniel J. Fenn , Sam D. Howison

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

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

Given a graph of interactions, a module (also called a community or cluster) is a subset of nodes whose fitness is a function of the statistical significance of the pairwise interactions of nodes in the module. The topic of this paper is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Bhaskar DasGupta , Devendra Desai