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A significant problem in analysis of complex network is to reveal community structure, in which network nodes are tightly connected in the same communities, between which there are sparse connections. Previous algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-25 Jingming Zhang , Jianjun Cheng , Xing Su , Xinhong Yin , Shiyan Zhao , Xiaoyun Chen

The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the web), biological inquiries (functional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Filippo Radicchi , Claudio Castellano , Federico Cecconi , Vittorio Loreto , Domenico Parisi

Many complex systems can be represented as networks and separating a network into communities could simplify the functional analysis considerably. Recently, many approaches have been proposed for finding communities, but none of them can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Yanqing Hu , Yuchao Nie , Hua Yang , Jie Cheng , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

Most existing approaches for community detection require complete information of the graph in a specific scale, which is impractical for many social networks. We propose a novel algorithm that does not embrace the universal approach but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-30 Hui-Jia Li , Junhua Zhang , Zhi-Ping Liu , Luonan Chen , Xiang-Sun Zhang

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

This paper considers a new framework to detect communities in a graph from the observation of signals at its nodes. We model the observed signals as noisy outputs of an unknown network process, represented as a graph filter that is excited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Hoi-To Wai , Santiago Segarra , Asuman E. Ozdaglar , Anna Scaglione , Ali Jadbabaie

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is community structure, or clustering, i. e. the organization of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Santo Fortunato

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

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 in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have improved unsupervised community detection of clustered nodes due to their ability to encode the dual dimensionality of the connectivity and feature information spaces of graphs. Identifying the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

Community search aims to identify a refined set of nodes that are most relevant to a given query, supporting tasks ranging from fraud detection to recommendation. Unlike homophilic graphs, many real-world networks are heterophilic, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Qing Sima , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenjie Zhang

Community detection is an important task in social network analysis, allowing us to identify and understand the communities within the social structures. However, many community detection approaches either fail to assign low degree (or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Ninareh Mehrabi , Fred Morstatter , Nanyun Peng , Aram Galstyan

This article presents an efficient hierarchical clustering algorithm that solves the problem of core community detection. It is a variant of the standard community detection problem in which we are particularly interested in the connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-01 J. Creusefond , T. Largillier , S. Peyronnet

Based on signaling process on complex networks, a method for identification community structure is proposed. For a network with $n$ nodes, every node is assumed to be a system which can send, receive, and record signals. Each node is taken…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Yanqing Hu , Menghui Li , Peng Zhang , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

To obtain the optimal number of communities is an important problem in detecting community structure. In this paper, we extend the measurement of community detecting algorithms to find the optimal community number. Based on the normalized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhifang Li , Yanqing Hu , Beishan Xu , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

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

Community detection is a core tool for analyzing large realworld graphs. It is often used to derive additional local features of vertices and edges that will be used to perform a downstream task, yet the impact of community detection on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

As a fundamental structure in real-world networks, in addition to graph topology, communities can also be reflected by abundant node attributes. In attributed community detection, probabilistic generative models (PGMs) have become the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ren Ren , Jinliang Shao , Adrian N. Bishop , Wei Xing Zheng

A community within a network is a group of vertices densely connected to each other but less connected to the vertices outside. The problem of detecting communities in large networks plays a key role in a wide range of research areas, e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti