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Community detection is a critical task in graph theory, social network analysis, and bioinformatics, where communities are defined as clusters of densely interconnected nodes. However, detecting communities in large-scale networks with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yantuan Xian , Pu Li , Hao Peng , Zhengtao Yu , Yan Xiang , Philip S. Yu

In this work we address the problem of detecting overlapping communities in social networks. Because the word "community" is an ambiguous term, it is necessary to quantify what it means to be a community within the context of a particular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Michael Brutz , Francois G. Meyer

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

We present a new online algorithm for detecting overlapping communities. The main ingredients are a modification of an online k-means algorithm and a new approach to modelling overlap in communities. An evaluation on large benchmark graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor

Over the past decade, community detection in overlapping un-weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities, has been one of the most popular topics in modern network science. However, community detection in overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Huan Qing

This paper focuses on the identification of overlapping communities, allowing nodes to simultaneously belong to several communities, in a decentralised way. To that aim it proposes LOCNeSs, an algorithm specially designed to run in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Maël Canu , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Adrien Revault d'Allonnes

Detection of overlapping communities in complex networks has motivated recent research in the relevant fields. Aiming this problem, we propose a Markov dynamics based algorithm, called UEOC, which means, 'unfold and extract overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Di Jin , Bo Yang , Carlos Baquero , Dayou Liu , Dongxiao He , Jie Liu

Many networks in nature, society and technology are characterized by a mesoscopic level of organization, with groups of nodes forming tightly connected units, called communities or modules, that are only weakly linked to each other.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Janos Kertesz

Community detection is the process of assigning nodes and links in significant communities (e.g. clusters, function modules) and its development has led to a better understanding of complex networks. When applied to sizable networks, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-15 Jean-Gabriel Young , Antoine Allard , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Louis J. Dubé

We consider the problem of estimating overlapping community memberships in a network, where each node can belong to multiple communities. More than a few communities per node are difficult to both estimate and interpret, so we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jesús Arroyo , Elizaveta Levina

Community detection in multi-layer undirected networks has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, multi-layer directed networks are common in the real world, and existing community detection methods often either ignore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Huan Qing

Community detection in social graphs has attracted researchers' interest for a long time. With the widespread of social networks on the Internet it has recently become an important research domain. Most contributions focus upon the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Michel Crampes , Michel Plantié

The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD) graph is a random graph model with community structure and power-law distribution for both degrees and community sizes. The model generates graphs similar to the well-known LFR model…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jordan Barrett , Ryan DeWolfe , Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Prałat , Aaron Smith , François Théberge

Community structure exists in many real-world networks and has been reported being related to several functional properties of the networks. The conventional approach was partitioning nodes into communities, while some recent studies start…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-15 Youngdo Kim , Hawoong Jeong

Conventional network data has largely focused on pairwise interactions between two entities, yet multi-way interactions among multiple entities have been frequently observed in real-life hypergraph networks. In this article, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-06 Yaoming Zhen , Junhui Wang

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

When dealing with large graphs, community detection is a useful data triage tool that can identify subsets of the network that a data analyst should investigate. In an adversarial scenario, the graph may be manipulated to avoid scrutiny of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Benjamin A. Miller , Kevin Chan , Tina Eliassi-Rad

No community detection algorithm can be optimal for all possible networks, thus it is important to identify whether the algorithm is suitable for a given network. We propose a multi-step algorithmic solution scheme for overlapping community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tianyi Li , Pan Zhang

Seeding then expanding is a commonly used scheme to discover overlapping communities in a network. Most seeding methods are either too complex to scale to large networks or too simple to select high-quality seeds, and the non-principled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Changxing Shang , Shengzhong Feng , Zhongying Zhao , Jianping Fan

Community detection, which focuses on clustering vertex interactions, plays a significant role in network analysis. However, it also faces numerous challenges like missing data and adversarial attack. How to further improve the performance…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jiajun Zhou , Zhi Chen , Min Du , Lihong Chen , Shanqing Yu , Guanrong Chen , Qi Xuan