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The generalized version of modularity for multilayer networks, a.k.a. multislice modularity, is characterized by two model parameters, namely resolution factor and inter-layer coupling factor. The former corresponds to a notion of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Alessia Amelio , Giuseppe Mangioni , Andrea Tagarelli

In network applications, it has become increasingly common to obtain datasets in the form of multiple networks observed on the same set of subjects, where each network is obtained in a related but different experiment condition or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Shuxiao Chen , Sifan Liu , Zongming Ma

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Although several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Konstantin Kuzmin , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

We consider three distinct and well studied problems concerning network structure: community detection by modularity maximization, community detection by statistical inference, and normalized-cut graph partitioning. Each of these problems…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-13 M. E. J. Newman

One of the most remarkable social phenomena is the formation of communities in social networks corresponding to families, friendship circles, work teams, etc. Since people usually belong to several different communities at the same time,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-16 Balint Toth , Tamas Vicsek , Gergely Palla

Finding community structures in social networks is considered to be a challenging task as many of the proposed algorithms are computationally expensive and does not scale well for large graphs. Most of the community detection algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Partha Basuchowdhuri , Satyaki Sikdar , Varsha Nagarajan , Khusbu Mishra , Surabhi Gupta , Subhashis Majumder

Community detection is an essential tool for unsupervised data exploration and revealing the organisational structure of networked systems. With a long history in network science, community detection typically relies on objective functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Christopher Blöcker , Chester Tan , Ingo Scholtes

Community detection is the process of grouping strongly connected nodes in a network. Many community detection methods for un-weighted networks have a theoretical basis in a null model. Communities discovered by these methods therefore have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-24 John Palowitch , Shankar Bhamidi , Andrew B. Nobel

Recognizing number of communities and detecting community structures of complex network are discussed in this paper. As a visual and feasible algorithm, block model has been successfully applied to detect community structures in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-20 Hongjue Wang , Tao Wang

The study of network structure is pervasive in sociology, biology, computer science, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the algorithmic detection of cohesive groups of nodes called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Huiyi Hu , Thomas Laurent , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Community detection is a fundamental and important problem in network science, as community structures often reveal both topological and functional relationships between different components of the complex system. In this paper, we first…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-18 Wenyi Fang , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Zhaole Wu , Shaoting Tang , Zhiming Zheng

Modularity is a widely used measure for evaluating community structure in networks. The definition of modularity involves a comparison of within-community edges in the observed network and that number in an equivalent randomized network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

Community detection has attracted increasing attention during the past decade, and many algorithms have been proposed to find the underlying community structure in a given network. Many of these algorithms are based on modularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Sahar Zarmehri , Soundar Kumara

Modular and hierarchical community structures are pervasive in real-world complex systems. A great deal of effort has gone into trying to detect and study these structures. Important theoretical advances in the detection of modular have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Michael T. Schaub , Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

We introduce a new algorithm for modularity-based community detection in large networks. The algorithm, which we refer to as a smart local moving algorithm, takes advantage of a well-known local moving heuristic that is also used by other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 Ludo Waltman , Nees Jan van Eck

Low modularity networks (Q < 0.2) challenge classical community detection algorithms, which get trapped in local optima. We introduce quantum inspired community detection algorithms leveraging non classical sampling techniques to escape…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Joseph Geraci , Luca Pani

Community detection, which identifies densely connected node clusters with sparse between-group links, is vital for analyzing network structure and function in real-world systems. Most existing community detection methods based on GCNs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gaofeng Zhou , Rui-Feng Wang , Kangning Cui

Despite the prevalence of community detection algorithms, relatively less work has been done on understanding whether a network is indeed modular and how resilient the community structure is under perturbations. To address this issue, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-11 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Sriram Srinivasan , Niloy Ganguly , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

In this paper, we propose a scalable community detection algorithm using hypergraph modularity function, h-Louvain. It is an adaptation of the classical Louvain algorithm in the context of hypergraphs. We observe that a direct application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Misiorek , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge