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Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying link farms in the World Wide Web. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Peter J. Bickel , Purnamrita Sarkar

We formalize the problem of detecting a community in a network into testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. We observe an undirected and unweighted graph on N nodes. Under the null hypothesis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Ery Arias-Castro , Nicolas Verzelen

We consider the problem of selecting a minimum size subset of nodes in a network, that allows to activate all the nodes of the network. We present a fast and simple algorithm that, in real-life networks, produces solutions that outperform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele Anna Rescigno

Given a time-evolving network, how can we detect communities over periods of high internal and low external interactions? To address this question we generalize traditional local community detection in graphs to the setting of dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Daniel J. DiTursi , Gaurav Ghosh , Petko Bogdanov

Detection of communities in a graph entails identifying clusters of densely connected vertices; the area has a variety of important applications and a rich literature. The problem has previously been situated in the realm of error…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Allison Beemer , Jessalyn Bolkema

Graph clustering (or community detection) has long drawn enormous attention from the research on web mining and information networks. Recent literature on this topic has reached a consensus that node contents and link structures should be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Zongyi Wang , Liyuan Liu , Jiawei Han

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

We consider a variant of the densest subgraph problem in networks with single or multiple edge attributes. For example, in a social network, the edge attributes may describe the type of relationship between users, such as friends, family,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Lutz Oettershagen , Honglian Wang , Aristides Gionis

Community detection remains an important problem in data mining, owing to the lack of scalable algorithms that exploit all aspects of available data - namely the directionality of flow of information and the dynamics thereof. Most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

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

Identifying communities has always been a fundamental task in analysis of complex networks. Many methods have been devised over the last decade for detection of communities. Amongst them, the label propagation algorithm brings great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Aria Rezaei , Saeed Mahlouji Far , Mahdieh Soleymani

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

The community detection problem for graphs asks one to partition the n vertices V of a graph G into k communities, or clusters, such that there are many intracluster edges and few intercluster edges. Of course this is equivalent to finding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ming-Jun Lai , Daniel Mckenzie

The hypergraph community detection problem seeks to identify groups of related nodes in hypergraph data. We propose an information-theoretic hypergraph community detection algorithm which compresses the observed data in terms of community…

Overlapping communities are key characteristics of the structure and function analysis of complex networks. Shared or overlapping nodes within overlapping communities can form either subcommunities or act as intersections between larger…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Vesa Kuikka , Kosti Koistinen , Kimmo K Kaski

In this paper, we study the crucial elements of complex networks, namely nodes, and edges and their properties such as their community structure, which play an important role in dictating the robustness of the network towards structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-04 V. Parimi , A. Pal , S. Ruj , P. Kumaraguru , T. Chakraborty

Finding dense substructures in a graph is a fundamental graph mining operation, with applications in bioinformatics, social networks, and visualization to name a few. Yet most standard formulations of this problem (like clique, quasiclique,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Umit V. Catalyurek

Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

Clusters or communities can provide a coarse-grained description of complex systems at multiple scales, but their detection remains challenging in practice. Community detection methods often define communities as dense subgraphs, or…

Community discovery is one of the most studied problems in network science. In recent years, many works have focused on discovering communities in temporal networks, thus identifying dynamic communities. Interestingly, dynamic communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Remy Cazabet , Giulio Rossetti