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Stochastic blockmodels have been proposed as a tool for detecting community structure in networks as well as for generating synthetic networks for use as benchmarks. Most blockmodels, however, ignore variation in vertex degree, making them…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-02 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Our problem of interest is to cluster vertices of a graph by identifying underlying community structure. Among various vertex clustering approaches, spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods because it is easy to implement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-23 Congyuan Yang , Carey E. Priebe , Youngser Park , David J. Marchette

The conventional approach for analyzing gene expression data involves clustering algorithms. Cluster analyses provide partitioning of the set of genes that can predict biological classification based on its similarity in n-dimensional…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-23 Jhoirene B. Clemente , Gabriel Besas , Jerick Callado , John Erol Evangelista

Large graphs arise in a number of contexts and understanding their structure and extracting information from them is an important research area. Early algorithms on mining communities have focused on the global structure, and often run in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Yixuan Li , Kun He , David Bindel , John Hopcroft

Community detection, aiming to group the graph nodes into clusters with dense inner-connection, is a fundamental graph mining task. Recently, it has been studied on the heterogeneous graph, which contains multiple types of nodes and edges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Linhao Luo , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Wenjie Zhang

Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with methods often relying on fitting models like the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to observed networks. While many algorithms can accurately estimate SBM parameters when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Leonardo Martins Bianco , Christine Keribin , Zacharie Naulet

Social media bot detection is increasingly crucial with the rise of social media platforms. Existing methods predominantly construct social networks as graph and utilize graph neural networks (GNNs) for bot detection. However, most of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sirry Chen , Shuo Feng , Songsong Liang , Chen-Chen Zong , Jing Li , Piji Li

Integral to the problem of detecting communities through graph clustering is the expectation that they are "well connected". In this respect, we examine five different community detection approaches optimizing different criteria: the Leiden…

Neighborhood Aggregation Strategy (NAS) is a widely used approach in graph embedding, underpinning both Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) methods. However, NAS-based methods are identified to be prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shuaibin Song , Kai Ming Ting , Kaifeng Zhang , Tianrun Liang

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

Local network community detection is the task of finding a single community of nodes concentrated around few given seed nodes in a localized way. Conductance is a popular objective function used in many algorithms for local community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Twan van Laarhoven , Elena Marchiori

Community detection refers to the task of discovering closely related subgraphs to understand the networks. However, traditional community detection algorithms fail to pinpoint a particular kind of community. This limits its applicability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Caihua Shan , Yiheng Sun , Yangyong Zhu , Philip S. Yu

We study the problem of community detection (CD) on Euclidean random geometric graphs where each vertex has two latent variables: a binary community label and a $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued location label which forms the support of a Poisson point…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Emmanuel Abbe , Francois Baccelli , Abishek Sankararaman

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

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

Overlapping community detection is a key problem in graph mining. Some research has considered applying graph convolutional networks (GCN) to tackle the problem. However, it is still challenging to incorporate deep graph convolutional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Md Nurul Muttakin , Md Iqbal Hossain , Md Saidur Rahman

Community discovery is a central problem in the analysis of dynamic social networks. Traditional community discovery methods mainly focus on the formation and dissolution of links between nodes, and therefore often fail to capture the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yingnan Xu , Shuangshuang Chu

Statistical significance of network clustering has been an unresolved problem since it was observed that community detection algorithms produce false positives even in random graphs. After a phase transition between undetectable and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jeremi K. Ochab

We consider the problem of estimating a consensus community structure by combining information from multiple layers of a multi-layer network using methods based on the spectral clustering or a low-rank matrix factorization. As a general…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

Several natural phenomena and complex systems are often represented as networks. Discovering their community structure is a fundamental task for understanding these networks. Many algorithms have been proposed, but recently, Graph Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Abdelfateh Bekkair , Slimane Bellaouar , Slimane Oulad-Naoui