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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 techniques are useful for social media platforms to discover tightly connected groups of users who share common interests. However, this functionality often comes at the expense of potentially exposing individuals to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Andrea Bernini , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with methods often relying on fitting models like the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to observed networks. While many algorithms can accurately estimate SBM parameters when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Leonardo Martins Bianco , Christine Keribin , Zacharie Naulet

Hidden community is a new graph-theoretical concept recently proposed [4], in which the authors also propose a meta-approach called HICODE (Hidden Community Detection) for detecting hidden communities. HICODE is demonstrated through…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jialu Bao , Kun He , Xiaodong Xin , Bart Selman , John E. Hopcroft

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

Local network community detection aims to find a single community in a large network, while inspecting only a small part of that network around a given seed node. This is much cheaper than finding all communities in a network. Most methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Twan van Laarhoven

Community detection provides invaluable help for various applications, such as marketing and product recommendation. Traditional community detection methods designed for plain networks may not be able to detect communities with homogeneous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Peng Wu , Li Pan

Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. In its simplest form, a community structure takes the form of a partition of the node set. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

Many empirical networks have community structure, in which nodes are densely interconnected within each community (i.e., a group of nodes) and sparsely across different communities. Like other local and meso-scale structure of networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-10 Sadamori Kojaku , Naoki Masuda

We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Community is a universal structure in various complex networks, and community detection is a fundamental task for network analysis. With the rapid growth of network scale, networks are massive, changing rapidly and could naturally be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yanhao Yang , Meng Wang , David Bindel , Kun He

Community is a common characteristic of networks including social networks, biological networks, computer and information networks, to name a few. Community detection is a basic step for exploring and analysing these network data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Maoying Qiao , Jun Yu , Wei Bian , Dacheng Tao

Characterizing the community structure of complex networks is a key challenge in many scientific fields. Very diverse algorithms and methods have been proposed to this end, many working reasonably well in specific situations. However, no…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Across many scientific domains, there is a common need to automatically extract a simplified view or coarse-graining of how a complex system's components interact. This general task is called community detection in networks and is analogous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Leto Peel , Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset

Community detection is a central task in graph analytics. Given the substantial growth in graph size, scalability in community detection continues to be an unresolved challenge. Recently, alongside established methods like Louvain and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tianyi Chen , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Community Detection algorithms are used to detect densely connected components in complex networks and reveal underlying relationships among components. As a special type of networks, spatial networks are usually generated by the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yunlei Liang , Jiawei Zhu , Wen Ye , Song Gao

Many real-world complex networks exhibit a community structure, in which the modules correspond to actual functional units. Identifying these communities is a key challenge for scientists. A common approach is to search for the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-22 Federico Botta , Charo I. del Genio

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can be trained to detect communities within a graph by learning from the duality of feature and connectivity information. Currently, the common approach for optimisation of GNNs is to use comparisons to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

An increasingly important challenge in network analysis is efficient detection and tracking of communities in dynamic networks for which changes arrive as a stream. There is a need for algorithms that can incrementally update and monitor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov