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Community detection is a fundamental problem in machine learning. While deep learning has shown great promise in many graphrelated tasks, developing neural models for community detection has received surprisingly little attention. The few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Oleksandr Shchur , Stephan Günnemann

Community detection is a foundational capability in large-scale industrial graph analytics, powering applications such as fraud-ring discovery, recommendation systems, and hierarchical indexing for retrieval-augmented generation. Among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chunxu Lin , Yumao Xie , Yixiang Fang , Yongmin Hu , Yingqian Hu , Chen Cheng

Multiplex networks have emerged as a promising approach for modeling complex systems, where each layer represents a different mode of interaction among entities of the same type. A core task in analyzing these networks is to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

Community detection can be considered as a variant of cluster analysis applied to complex networks. For this reason, all existing studies have been using tools derived from this field when evaluating community detection algorithms. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Vincent Labatut

This paper considers the problem of algorithm selection for community detection. The aim of community detection is to identify sets of nodes in a network which are more interconnected relative to their connectivity to the rest of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-10-27 Leto Peel

Community detections for large-scale real world networks have been more popular in social analytics. In particular, dynamically growing network analyses become important to find long-term trends and detect anomalies. In order to analyze…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Hiroki Kanezashi , Toyotaro Suzumura

Community detection is the problem of recognizing natural divisions in networks. A relevant challenge in this problem is to find communities on rapidly evolving graphs. In this report we present our Parallel Dynamic Frontier (DF) Louvain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Subhajit Sahu

Graph embeddings learn the structure of networks and represent it in low-dimensional vector spaces. Community structure is one of the features that are recognized and reproduced by embeddings. We show that an iterative procedure, in which a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-30 Bianka Kovács , Sadamori Kojaku , Gergely Palla , Santo Fortunato

Integrating structural information and metadata, such as gender, social status, or interests, enriches networks and enables a better understanding of the large-scale structure of complex systems. However, existing approaches to metadata…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-16 Aleix Bassolas , Anton Eriksson , Antoine Marot , Martin Rosvall , Vincenzo Nicosia

Complex networks usually expose community structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in the same group and relatively few with the nodes of the rest. This feature captures valuable information about the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Hiep H. Nguyen , Abdessamad Imine , Michael Rusinowitch

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

Graph clustering and community detection are central problems in modern data mining. The increasing need for analyzing billion-scale data calls for faster and more scalable algorithms for these problems. There are certain trade-offs between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

Community detection is an important task in network analysis. A community (also referred to as a cluster) is a set of cohesive vertices that have more connections inside the set than outside. In many social and information networks, these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Joyce Jiyoung Whang , David F. Gleich , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Community identification is a long-standing challenge in the modern network science, especially for very large scale networks containing millions of nodes. In this paper, we propose a new metric to quantify the structural similarity between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-05-31 Biao Xiang , En-Hong Chen , Tao Zhou

A community reveals the features and connections of its members that are different from those in other communities in a network. Detecting communities is of great significance in network analysis. Despite the classical spectral clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xing Su , Shan Xue , Fanzhen Liu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Di Jin , Quan Z. Sheng , Philip S. Yu

Community detection, which aims to cluster $N$ nodes in a given graph into $r$ distinct groups based on the observed undirected edges, is an important problem in network data analysis. In this paper, the popular stochastic block model (SBM)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 T. Tony Cai , Xiaodong Li

The evolution of many dynamical systems that describe relationships or interactions between objects can be effectively modeled by temporal networks, which are typically represented as a sequence of static network snapshots. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Filip Blašković , Tim O. F. Conrad , Stefan Klus , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Designing effective algorithms for community detection is an important and challenging problem in {\em large-scale} graphs, studied extensively in the literature. Various solutions have been proposed, but many of them are centralized with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Reza Fathi , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan