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Community structure of networks provides comprehensive insight into their organizational structure and functional behavior. LPA is one of the most commonly adopted community detection algorithms with nearly linear time complexity. But it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Xuegang Hu , Wei He , Huizong Li , Jianhan Pan

Community structure is largely regarded as an intrinsic property of complex real-world networks. However, recent studies reveal that networks comprise even more sophisticated modules than classical cohesive communities. More precisely,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-10-13 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Most methods proposed to uncover communities in complex networks rely on combinatorial graph properties. Usually an edge-counting quality function, such as modularity, is optimized over all partitions of the graph compared against a null…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-17 Renaud Lambiotte , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Mauricio Barahona

One of the most persistent challenges in network science is the development of various synthetic graph models to support subsequent analyses. Among the most notable frameworks addressing this issue is the Artificial Benchmark for Community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Łukasz Kraiński , Michał Czuba , Piotr Bródka , Paweł Prałat , Bogumił Kamiński , François Théberge

In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the field of Complex Social Networks. Several network generation models have been extensively studied to develop an understanding of how real world networks evolve over time. Two important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi

Community detection in networks is one of the most popular topics of modern network science. Communities, or clusters, are usually groups of vertices having higher probability of being connected to each other than to members of other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-04 Santo Fortunato , Darko Hric

A new method for community identification is proposed which is founded on the analysis of successive neighborhoods, reached through hierarchical growth from a starting vertex, and on the definition of communities as a subgraph whose number…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Gonzalo Travieso , Luciano da F. Costa

Community structure identification has been one of the most popular research areas in recent years due to its applicability to the wide scale of disciplines. To detect communities in varied topics, there have been many algorithms proposed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ismail Gunes , Haluk Bingol

Networks are commonly used to model complex systems. The different entities in the system are represented by nodes of the network and their interactions by edges. In most real life systems, the different entities may interact in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

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

The amount of graph-structured data has recently experienced an enormous growth in many applications. To transform such data into useful information, fast analytics algorithms and software tools are necessary. One common graph analytics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Christian L. Staudt , Henning Meyerhenke

It is often of interest to find communities in network data for unsupervised learning, feature discovery, anomaly detection, or scientific study. The vast majority of community detection methods proceed via optimization of a quality…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-20 John Palowitch

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

Community detection is a task of fundamental importance in social network analysis that can be used in a variety of knowledge-based domains. While there exist many works on community detection based on connectivity structures, they suffer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Mahdi Hajiabadi , Hadi Zare , Hossein Bobarshad

The concept of community detection has long been used as a key device for handling the mesoscale structures in networks. Suitably conducted community detection reveals various embedded informative substructures of network topology. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-28 Daekyung Lee , Sang Hoon Lee , Beom Jun Kim , Heetae Kim

Community detection in hypergraphs is both instrumental for functional module identification and intricate due to higher-order interactions among nodes. We define a hypergraph Ricci flow that directly operates on higher-order interactions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yulu Tian , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

We consider the problem of fuzzy community detection in networks, which complements and expands the concept of overlapping community structure. Our approach allows each vertex of the graph to belong to multiple communities at the same time,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-10 Tamás Nepusz , Andrea Petróczi , László Négyessy , Fülöp Bazsó

Kernel spectral clustering corresponds to a weighted kernel principal component analysis problem in a constrained optimization framework. The primal formulation leads to an eigen-decomposition of a centered Laplacian matrix at the dual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Raghvendra Mall , Rocco Langone , Johan A. K. Suykens

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco