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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

It is common in the study of networks to investigate meso-scale features to try to gain an understanding of network structure and function. For example, numerous algorithms have been developed to try to identify "communities," which are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Prakash Balachandran , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha , Michael W. Mahoney

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yuan Li

Many real world networks consist of multiple types of nodes with edges that are heterogeneous in nature. However, most of the existing work for community detection only focused on homogeneous network consisting of a single layer. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-19 Fan Yang , Fengshuo Zhang

Community detection is one of the most important and interesting issues in social network analysis. In recent years, simultaneous considering of nodes' attributes and topological structures of social networks in the process of community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Ali Reihanian , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Hadi S. Aghdasi

Social networks are often associated with rich side information, such as texts and images. While numerous methods have been developed to identify communities from pairwise interactions, they usually ignore such side information. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guillaume Braun , Masashi Sugiyama

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Piotr Bródka , Tomasz Filipowski , Przemysław Kazienko

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

Many real-world networks, including nervous systems, exhibit meso-scale structure. This means that their elements can be grouped into meaningful sub-networks. In general, these sub-networks are unknown ahead of time and must be "discovered"…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-16 Richard F. Betzel

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

Community detection is one of the most important and challenging problems in network analysis. However, real-world networks may have very different structural properties and communities of various nature. As a result, it is hard (or even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Liudmila Prokhorenkova

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

Research data sets are growing to unprecedented sizes and network modeling is commonly used to extract complex relationships in diverse domains, such as genetic interactions involved in disease, logistics, and social communities. As the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Sharlee Climer , Kenneth Smith , Wei Yang , Lisa de las Fuentes , Victor G. Dávila-Román , C. Charles Gu

The spatial transcriptomics (ST) data produced by recent biotechnologies, such as CosMx and Xenium, contain huge amount of information about cancer tissue samples, which has great potential for cancer research via detection of community: a…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-01 Charles Zhao

Embedding the nodes of a large network into an Euclidean space is a common objective in modern machine learning, with a variety of tools available. These embeddings can then be used as features for tasks such as community detection/node…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-23 Andrew Davison , S. Carlyle Morgan , Owen G. Ward

With rapid developments of information and technology, large scale network data are ubiquitous. In this work we develop a distributed spectral clustering algorithm for community detection in large scale networks. To handle the problem, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-01 Shihao Wu , Zhe Li , Xuening Zhu

This paper proposes a novel community detection method that integrates the Louvain algorithm with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enabling the discovery of communities without prior knowledge. Compared to most existing solutions, the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dalila Khettaf , Djamel Djenouri , Zeinab Rezaeifar , Youcef Djenouri

Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

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

Community detection, or clustering, identifies groups of nodes in a graph that are more densely connected to each other than to the rest of the network. Given the size and dynamic nature of real-world graphs, efficient community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Subhajit Sahu