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Complex networks tend to display communities which are groups of nodes cohesively connected among themselves in one group and sparsely connected to the remainder of the network. Detecting such communities is an important computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Elham Havvaei , Narsingh Deo

Community detection is crucial for applications like targeted marketing and recommendation systems. Traditional methods rely on network structure, and embedding-based models integrate semantic information. However, there is a challenge when…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Heba Zahran , M. Omair Shafiq

In this paper, we propose an improved version of an agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm that performs disjoint community detection in large-scale complex networks. The improved algorithm is achieved after replacing the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Eduar Castrillo , Elizabeth León , Jonatan Gómez

We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

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 structure is one of the main structural features of networks, revealing both their internal organization and the similarity of their elementary units. Despite the large variety of methods proposed to detect communities in graphs,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-05-05 Andrea Lancichinetti , Filippo Radicchi , Jose' Javier Ramasco , Santo Fortunato

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

The detection of overlapping communities is a challenging problem which is gaining increasing interest in recent years because of the natural attitude of individuals, observed in real-world networks, to participate in multiple groups at the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Alessia Amelio , Clara Pizzuti

With the recent advances in complex networks theory, graph-based techniques for image segmentation has attracted great attention recently. In order to segment the image into meaningful connected components, this paper proposes an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Youssef Mourchid , Mohammed El Hassouni , Hocine Cherifi

We propose a new local, deterministic and parameter-free algorithm that detects fuzzy and crisp overlapping communities in a weighted network and simultaneously reveals their hierarchy. Using a local fitness function, the algorithm greedily…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-17 Frank Havemann , Michael Heinz , Alexander Struck , Jochen Gläser

We propose an algorithm for detecting communities of links in networks which uses local information, is based on a new evaluation function, and allows for pervasive overlaps of communities. The complexity of the clustering task requires the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Frank Havemann , Jochen Gläser , Michael Heinz

Overlapping community detection (OCD) is a fundamental graph data analysis task for extracting graph patterns. Traditional OCD methods can be broadly divided into node clustering and link clustering approaches, both of which rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shaozhen Ma , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang , Wei Huang , Ying Zhang

Networks are a general language for representing relational information among objects. An effective way to model, reason about, and summarize networks, is to discover sets of nodes with common connectivity patterns. Such sets are commonly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Jaewon Yang , Julian McAuley , Jure Leskovec

Learning community structures in graphs has broad applications across scientific domains. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successful in encoding graph structures, existing GNN-based methods for community detection are limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-05 Yueqi Wang , Yoonho Lee , Pallab Basu , Juho Lee , Yee Whye Teh , Liam Paninski , Ari Pakman

To date, social network analysis has been largely focused on pairwise interactions. The study of higher-order interactions, via a hypergraph network, brings in new insights. We study community detection in a hypergraph network. A popular…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-03 Zheng Tracy Ke , Feng Shi , Dong Xia

Community detection, which identifies densely connected node clusters with sparse between-group links, is vital for analyzing network structure and function in real-world systems. Most existing community detection methods based on GCNs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gaofeng Zhou , Rui-Feng Wang , Kangning Cui

This paper reviews the state of the art in overlapping community detection algorithms, quality measures, and benchmarks. A thorough comparison of different algorithms (a total of fourteen) is provided. In addition to community level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jierui Xie , Stephen Kelley , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

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