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We introduce a new conception of community structure, which we refer to as hidden community structure. Hidden community structure refers to a specific type of overlapping community structure, in which the detection of weak, but meaningful,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Kun He , Sucheta Soundarajan , Xuezhi Cao , John Hopcroft , Menglong Huang

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools that allow us to uncover organizational principles in networks. When detecting communities, there are two possible sources of information one can use: the network structure, and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jaewon Yang , Julian McAuley , Jure Leskovec

The problem of community detection is important as it helps in understanding the spread of information in a social network. All real complex networks have an inbuilt structure which captures and characterizes the network dynamics between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Radhika Arava

Community structure describes the organization of a network into subgraphs that contain a prevalence of edges within each subgraph and relatively few edges across boundaries between subgraphs. The development of community-detection methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-08 Saray Shai , Natalie Stanley , Clara Granell , Dane Taylor , Peter J. Mucha

Membership diversity is a characteristic aspect of social networks in which a person may belong to more than one social group. For this reason, discovering overlapping structures is necessary for realistic social analysis. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

The characterization of network community structure has profound implications in several scientific areas. Therefore, testing the algorithms developed to establish the optimal division of a network into communities is a fundamental problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-02 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

The task of \emph{community detection} in a graph formalizes the intuitive task of grouping together subsets of vertices such that vertices within clusters are connected tighter than those in disparate clusters. This paper approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Ramezan Paravi Torghabeh , Narayana Prasad Santhanam

We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Community detection, a fundamental task for network analysis, aims to partition a network into multiple sub-structures to help reveal their latent functions. Community detection has been extensively studied in and broadly applied to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Di Jin , Zhizhi Yu , Pengfei Jiao , Shirui Pan , Dongxiao He , Jia Wu , Philip S. Yu , Weixiong Zhang

The topological information of a network can be retrieved equivalently from its complement consisting of the same nodes but complementary edges. Hence the partition of a network into certain substructures based on given criteria should be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiao Wang , C. -H. Lai

We introduce a new paradigm that is important for community detection in the realm of network analysis. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Kun He , Yingru Li , Sucheta Soundarajan , John E. Hopcroft

Here, we introduce a new tool for community detection, a generator of networks, which uses parameters to control the structure of created networks. Typically, network scientists designing novel community detection algorithms use…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Brendan Cross , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection in networks is commonly performed using information about interactions between nodes. Recent advances have been made to incorporate multiple types of interactions, thus generalizing standard methods to multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Martina Contisciani , Eleanor Power , Caterina De Bacco

Network structures, consisting of nodes and edges, have applications in almost all subjects. A set of nodes is called a community if the nodes have strong interrelations. Industries (including cell phone carriers and online social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Haoye Lu , Amiya Nayak

Over the past few years, there has been a substantial effort towards automated detection of fake news on social media platforms. Existing research has modeled the structure, style, content, and patterns in dissemination of online posts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Shantanu Chandra , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Madhav Nimishakavi , Marzieh Saeidi , Ekaterina Shutova

Most real-world networks exhibit community structure, a phenomenon characterized by existence of node clusters whose intra-edge connectivity is stronger than edge connectivities between nodes belonging to different clusters. In addition to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-20 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Uncovering modular structure in networks is fundamental for systems in biology, physics, and engineering. Community detection identifies candidate modules as hypotheses, which then need to be validated through experiments, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Marinka Zitnik , Rok Sosic , Jure Leskovec

In network science, a group of nodes connected with each other at higher probability than with those outside the group is referred to as a community. From the perspective that individual communities are associated with functional modules…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-10 Hiroshi Okamoto , Xu-le Qiu

Overlapped community detection in social networks has become an important research area with the increasing popularity and complexity of the networks. Most of the existing solutions are either centralized or parallel algorithms, which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Dibakar Saha , Partha Sarathi Mandal

Community detection plays a crucial role in understanding the structural organization of complex networks. Previous methods, particularly those from statistical physics, primarily focus on the analysis of mesoscopic network structures and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yijun Ran , Junfan Yi , Wei Si , Michael Small , Ke-ke Shang